<TITLE>21. Par 166-171</TITLE>L-166 Now, watch these two churches. If I could... If there was some way I could just make the people see it. Just burns in my soul... This--these churches are just as clean and holy as this one is; if they're all virgins, they're all virgins, just as clean. The only difference was, was the Oil in the lamp, the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost, if It's in there, It produces the very same kind of fire It did on Pentecost. But they don't have no fire, no Oil in their lamps. They have church ritual, church just as ritualistic as it can be, fine ceremonies (nothing against it), creeds that would shake your conscience, and songs like Angels singing. And they're... You'll put your finger on your--their life, you couldn't do it. But still that's wrong. It's not... It's--it's part of it, but not all of it. That's the kind that misses the rapture. See? They're just...

L-167 Now, watch. Here was Moab come down. I'll take it right here so that you can see it. Here's Moab, a great organization. I'll put here "for organization"; here is Israel with no organization. Here's Moab, put up one, two, three, four, five, six, seven altars; Israel had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven altars. All right. Moab up here put one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bullocks; Israel, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bullocks. All right. Moab said, "There'll come a time when there'll be a man (Christ) come on earth, so He'll be the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world; we'll put seven (what?) lambs on this altar"; Israel said, "That's exactly right, seven lambs on the altar." See?

L-168 Now, in the very beginning Cain put a altar, made a sacrifice, worshipped, done everything that Abel done, without (Oh, receive it.), without the revelation of God, when the whole church is built on that revelation. Jesus said so, "Upon this rock I'll build My church," spiritual revealed truth of the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ, "On this rock I'll build My church."
Now, if God only respects your rituals, your rite, that's Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and so forth, if He only expects that for you to do, preach the second coming and all these other things (that it's absolutely Scriptural), like Baptist, Presbyterian, and so forth does, then God's obligated to take both of them, 'cause that's all He required. But, you see, without the revelation, there's the sleeping virgin; here's the wise virgin. They was a organization, a great nation.

L-170 We read it the other night, where it said, "These people will not be an organization; they'll be wanderers around in the land, dwelling in tents, poor, humble." But said, "Don't you try to curse them, 'cause I'm with them." Now, watch. These people believe in the same ritual that they believed in and worshipped the same God. See? But they didn't have signs and wonders following them. Israel had a brass serpent, a smitten Rock, the joy of the King, Divine healing, prophets, everything right down here. And they did not; they had the ritual but out--without the blessing, the Oil.

L-171 The same thing with the sleeping virgin and the wise virgin; they were both sanctified people. But this one had Oil. And this one did not have Oil, so they said, "We're as good as you are." That's... There's none of us good, as far as that's concerned. "Why, you're a bunch of holy-rollers." Well, okay; that's all right. There's none of us good; we all sinned and come short of the glory of God. But the only way you'll ever know it, is not by joining church, not by trying to live good, but by receiving Christ. It ain't what I live; it's what He was. It ain't what I am; it's what He is. He become me that I might, through His grace, become Him, the Son of God. You see it?


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