<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 And the deeds of the Nicolaitanes became a doctrine after the Nicene Council. They formed their own faith, put up their own men, taken all the... "Nico," as I said the other day, means "conquer." "Nicolaitanes" means to "conquer the laity," and put all the holiness in a man: do as you want to and pay the money into the church; and let the man do the forgiveness of sins; and let him do your praying, and so forth.
That's not God's will. God's Word gets out amongst the laity, everybody. You're an individual. God dealt with Israel as a nation, you and I as individuals. We each one has to answer before God for our sins.

L-15 And we see that that mixed multitude... Well... This is... Two sons of Isaac and Rebekah represents the world over. Every time there's a revival there's twins born. Every time we have a revival, twins are born. Esau and Jacob were twins. One of them was a man after the world, and the other was spiritual.
Now, Esau was just as good a man as Jacob was, if you looked at him. He liked to take care of his old blind father, which was a prophet. He was a good boy --morally, I guess, all right. But... and he helped work. And perhaps Jacob was just a Mama's boy, hung around Mama and just, we call, a little sissy. And so Esau was loved, a man of the world, natural, never cared nothing about the birthright.

L-16 But to Jacob it didn't make any difference how he got it, there was only one thing he had in his mind: and that was the birthright! No matter what... anything else, or how he got it... That's the way it is with a spiritual-born churches. When the Catholic church had a revival, when Luther had a revival, when Wesley had a revival, Knox, Calvin, and all down through the ages, it produced twins. And when Pentecost had a revival, it produced twins. When Moses had a revival down in Egypt, it produced twins, a mixed multitude: one to... one to the world, that wants to act like the world, be like the world, and pattern their message with the world. The others don't care about what the world says, how classic it looks, or how unclassic it looks, they got one thing in common, that's hold onto the birthright, keep a hold of God. Just the way it's always been. That's the way it is yet today, my friends. Hold onto the birthright.
Jacob, he... didn't make any difference how much they called him a sissy, how much... what... how he got it, just so he got it. That's the way it is today. Makes no difference to people who's spiritual. Now the... many times the churches are compromising. It gets so they just shake hands with the preacher.

L-17 As David duPlessis well placed it not long ago, that God don't have any grandchildren. That is true. Our Pentecostal churches are bringing in their young ones, placing them upon the seat, and putting them members of the church. They never come through the process of being born again, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and upon their own. We just take them into the church.
What have they got? A bunch of flat-top hair cuts, Rickeys, run right on the street here just like the rest of the world; women with bobbed-hair, wearing make-up and everything else-- it's a disgrace--trying to pattern after the world instead of going after the spiritual standpoint.


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