<TITLE>15. Par 128-134</TITLE>L-128 Now, pardon me, church members. That's the reason we're trying to say this morning, you can't evaluate your big church, your big steeples, and things, with the love of God that's in our hearts by the Holy Ghost He gives unto you. No comparison. These things come supernatural. You may think that we're odd because you hear them speak with tongues and interpret, and people cry and shout and scream. I'd rather have it than all... I'd rather be a pastor of a little old rackled-up building like this, where the power of God meets with the people, where the Church comes together with those things like that, than to have the biggest cathedral there is in all the world to preach in, with a lukewarm bunch of cold, professed, so-called Christians, to have to watch what every word you say. And you can't preach by inspiration; you have to have it so--so, and watch every judge and every doctor and everything in there, so you won't say something to hurt their feelings, because they're big payers on the church. I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. See? You can't evaluate it. There's no way of doing it.

L-129 So therefore, today the man that's rich is the man who is in Christ. Now, say you had good sight, good health, a lot of money and everything else, but yet without--without Christ, you are lost. You are a wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked, and don't know it. See? That's what the Laodicean Church Age was. You might belong to the biggest church there is in the nation, you might belong to the largest denominations, but still be lost as lost can be. See? So the rich man is the man who is in Christ. That's right.

L-130 Now, the uncertainty of home life, the uncertainty of job, the uncertainty of war, the uncertainty of churches.
Being that we struck that, let's just speak on that a few minutes, the uncertainty of church life. They... You--you just... You--you just can't evaluate it hardly, because there is no way to evaluate what a experience in the Holy Ghost is, to a membership of a church. See? There's no way. There's no... There's no way you could buy this Holy Spirit. It comes as a free gift from God. It comes to anybody who will.
You--you say, "Will It just go to Pentecostal?"

L-132 Pentecostal is not a denomination. They tried to do that, but you can't denominate God. Pentecost is an experience that any believer can have. See? It's for Baptists, for Catholics, for Jews; for black, for white, for brown, for yellow, for red; for any color, creed, or anything; whether you're poor or rich, got nothing, got plenty; whether you're the in-between or whoever you are. You, It's for you.
And it's God's love and mercy measured out to you to take It. Don't cost you one thing. Only thing It costs you, is just to surrender your life to Him, and receive It. How simple. Just get all... Just forget all you ever knowed and just surrender yourself to Him. And that's how It comes, is just receive, receiving It that way.

L-134 Denominations, it just couldn't be It. The denomination gives an uncertain sound. Now, let me just--just--just show you that it--it is an uncertain sound. You go to this denomination, they say, "We got it; the rest of them haven't got it," all right, you go to that denomination. Go to the next one, "We got it; they haven't got it." See, every denomination... There's nine hundred different denominational churches: nine hundred and sixty-nine, I think, to be exact, according to the statistics, Nine hundred and sixty-nine different denominational churches, and every one claims the other one is wrong, and they got it. So that certainly is a very much of an uncertain sound. See, nine hundred and...


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