<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0120, Things That Wasn't So From The Beginning, American Legion Hall, Beaumont, TX, 20 min
L-1 Of His days, teaching things that wasn't so. I suppose if He'd come today, He'd find the same thing: things that wasn't so from the beginning. If you always want to know what's truth, go back to the beginning. Go back to Genesis, and you can take every cult and every true from today. Just... The plants all begin in Genesis, because Genesis is the seed chapter of the Bible. And if we want to know what is right, go back from the beginning.
Just like I was trying to say last night, when God once makes a statement, He can never vary from that statement. He's got to keep it all the way through. What He said in Genesis is the same thing in Revelation, and all the way through. He's God, and that's all. See? And all of His Words are true.

L-2 Now, we find out that when Jesus came, He found the teachers that had taken the Word of God and had perverted It in to suit themselves. They had taken the commandments of God and perverted it into a creed.
Now, remember, there's only one Creator, and all... Satan is not a creator. What is sin? Sin is unrighteousness, and unrighteousness is righteousness perverted.
Maybe I'll make it clearer. They're... You're a mixed congregation. You listen to your doctor; I'm your brother. For a man to live with his wife is righteousness. He's married to her. The same act with another woman is death. One brings life, the other one is death. See? Unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. What is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented.
So that's what Jesus done. And what all of us will get into, as long as we take and add, or take away from God's Word, it's perverting God's Word.
So when Jesus come, He found out that they had taken God's Word and perverted It, and made a tradition of man. And He said, "Why do you with the--change the Word of God? By taking their traditions, and changing the Word of God, making It say something that It really did not say...

L-3 We find out that He found that in His day. And He'd find it here today. And Him, in the Presence, or in the Person of Holy Spirit, the same God that always has been, dwelling in His people in the form of the Holy Spirit, it witnesses out through the true believer that man perverts God's Word to fit their creed, instead of making their creed fit God's Word.
I want somebody to find the Apostles' Creed in the Bible, as we'd say it today. "I believe in the Holy Roman Catholic church, the communion of saints." Anything communes with the dead is spiritualism. "There's only one Mediator between God and man: the Man Christ Jesus." That's all. There's no other mediator. So anything... They pervert the things, make an Apostles' Creed.
If the apostle had any creed, it was Acts 2:38. He--He had... That's what they preached continually and--and pounded into the people. It was repentance towards God and so forth. That is... If there's any creed in the Bible, that would be it, that the apostles used.

L-4 So they... All their leadings of the Holy Spirit stayed with the Word. And if any man or angel ever says anything contrary to the Word, Galatians 1:8 said, "Let him be accursed." It must be the Word of God.
Paul said, "If an angel from heaven comes to you with any other gospel than that which you've already heard, let him be accursed." So we believe that heavens and earth will pass away, but God's Word shall not pass away, because the Word is God. God said that His creation will pass away, but God cannot pass away.


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