<TITLE>12. Par 102-107</TITLE>L-102 The voice was the same voice that walked in the seven golden candlesticks: same voice, the voice didn't change. But the voice, where was It when he heard It the first time? How many remembers, in the first church age? Behind him. "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day," Revelation 1-1:10. So he... "In the Spirit..." If you want to put that down to Revelation 1:10 and 13, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me as a voice of a trumpet and sounded like many waters. And when I turned to look, I saw One standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks."
Now, after He showed him all that mystery of them seven golden candlesticks (holding the seven stars, and a white wig on, and so forth, and feet like brass, and eyes like fire, the symbols), then he heard the same voice (Watch.) speaking from heaven. And he looked up and he saw an open Door (Oh.), an open Door into heaven. How do you get in? By Christ Jesus, that one Door, one Way, no other way.

L-104 Any man that climbs up any other way, same is a thief and a robber. And in the parable of the one who climbed up and was at the wedding supper without a garment on, was found guilty, and bound and cast out into outer darkness. Only one Way coming to the wedding supper. I believe I preached on it here not long ago.
Whenever the bridegroom... When a man got--gets married in the old country, he has to give the invitations himself; he has to furnish the robes himself. So when he met this man there, him setting at the supper table... How many remembers the parable? Sure, you that read the Bible. And he found a man at the supper table without a wedding garment on.

L-105 What is it? The Bridegroom stands at the door and all comes up with an invitation. "No man can come to the Father except by Me. All the Father has given Me, or invited, will come to Me." Here they come, give their invitation, the bridegroom, so that everybody will look alike... That's one thing about good, old-time, Holy Ghost religion, it makes them all look alike. Whether they're rich or poor, bond or free, black or white, male or female, they're all one in Christ Jesus. And the bridegroom stood at the door and received the invitation, put the robe around this fellow, so the rich and poor all looked alike. That's the way it is in the Kingdom of God; there's no big guys and little guys; they're all one guy, all one in Christ.

L-106 Now, what do you think when the Bridegroom come back and found a man setting there without a wedding garment on? Said, "Friend, how'd you get in here?" And he stood speechless; it showed that he come some other way besides the Door. He come in a window; he come in a back door. And He called him a friend: showed he was a church member, "Friend, how did you get in here without a garment on?" Now, Jesus said this Himself. And He calls in the porter; He said, "Bind him foot and hand." And he was cast out into outer darkness where there'll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. That's Christ's own Words. Right, "He was cast out." Because it proved, without the wedding garment, he come some other way besides the Door. If he'd have come by the Door, he would receive the wedding garment.

L-107 Oh, listen to this. Then if the wedding garment is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, how are we going to be represented any other way? If the first church age had to come by the Door, Christ Jesus, be baptized into the Name of Jesus Christ, receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, to put on the wedding garment, how we coming any other way? If you come by the Methodists, by the Baptists, or by the Pentecostals, or any other denomination, you will be bound and cast out into outer darkness. You've got to come by Christ Jesus, the Way, the Door, the Truth, the Life. Amen.


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