<TITLE>18. Par 57-58</TITLE>L-57 Now, the world's in a Sodom condition. Oh, His eaglets... I got here, where I preached on that one time, the morning Lights, the morning Star, the same message. It's been evening for a long time now. It's a dismal time, so a dangerous time. Remember, twilight is the most dangerous time of all; traveling, you have to watch. And this is the most dangerous day you ever lived in. The Bible said in Matthew 24 that, "It would come to pass in the last days till it would deceive the very elected if possible."
I heard Billy Graham say the other day in a message; he said, "The elected is already deceived." No, no. The elected ain't going to be deceived. No, no. They won't be. No. church members will, but not the elected. They was chosen from the foundation of the world. They cannot be deceived. It's impossible, said Hebrews 6. They will not be deceived.
But it's a dangerous time and for--for the church in this evening time, because there... Look, they'll go to church, and almost be just exactly like Pentecostal believers. You'll... They'll shout, dance, speak with tongues, and everything else: so close that would deceive the very elected if possible. But remember, the only way where you know that you're right is follow the Conductor, the Word. It brings forth the absolute truth. See? Keep on the Conductor, just be filled with it. Yes, sir.

L-58 Now, we find out that this Laodicean church, the church age that we're in now (if you want to read it, Revelations the 3rd chapter), we see what--what done--what taken place when this message is supposed to go forth? The church had been so worldly, and organized itself, till they organized its very God right out of it.
The most pathetic Scripture I ever seen is Hebrew--is Revelations the 3rd chapter, when--at the Laodicean church Age: Jesus standing on the outside of His own church, knocking, trying to get back in. At the first church He was walking among the seven golden candlesticks, the church ages. But in the Laodicean He was on the outside, trying to get back in His own church. It shows what this age has done to Him.
They've organized Him out. They've organized His doctrine out. They've organized His Bible out. They got a book of creeds, of philosophies and so forth that they read and accept it instead: cold confessions, instead of letting God come in and make a Messiahette out of them, give them the baptism of the Holy Ghost to show signs and wonders. They organized it all out, pushed Him over to one side.
Now, He's on the outside, making His last plea, trying to get back in again at the door. "Behold I stand at the door and knock," the Laodicean church Age, trying to get back in His own church where they pressed Him out. Isn't that pitiful? That's the most pathetic thing I can think of: of Him in His own church, giving His life for that church, and doing the way that they did. And sent the Light to the church, and said He did, and they rejected it end pushed Him on the outside, accepted some kind of a creed or something the church had made up. And there He is, standing at the outside trying to get in.


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