<TITLE>10. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Well, they made an issue. They started baptizing in Jesus' Name. The other one said, "There's two gods."
One said, "There's three."
One said, "There's one." Oh, my! They...
Why don't you leave it alone? If it wasn't of God, didn't Jesus say, "Every plant that My Father hasn't planted will be rooted up." Just let it alone. Keep your fellowship going anyhow. If it ain't of God, it'll come to naught anyhow. Don't break your fellowship and bring yourself over here on a little tree of your own. Let's just throw out our arms and love the brother. If he's in error, let's pray for him. Get him back into the fellowship again. Let him alone.
But no, we had to go just the same thing that the Exodus did in the 19th chapter. They wanted a law so they could make doctors of divinity and have their theology, after grace had provided everything they had. See? When undenominational had brought the Pentecostal blessing to the people, but then they had to go and make denominations out of it. See? Just the same thing it did then. And you set forty years, and there you are.

L-32 What did they do? Did you ever think what they done in them years? Oh, God blessed them. They raised families and good crops and prospered them. Sure they did, and everything. But still they were short of the blessing. They wasn't in the promised land yet. Now, but one day they went over to the promised land. A new generation come up, and God sent them over in the promised land.
Now, the grace message of God, the unconditional covenant, existed from when the time that God gave it to Abraham. We'll get to it directly, and show how He confirmed it to him. And then it lasted on up until Exodus. And then when they got to be legalists, and lawgivers, and so forth, that fell upon themselves, so that they could have something to do into it, so they could have something to do... Just like Nimrod, he had to have something to do, so he built him a tower; but God just showed Jacob a ladder, grace.

L-33 But that's the way it's been. That's the way it is today. We got to do something. Some of the churches say, "Now, wait. You know Dr. So-and-so is our pastor. Dr. So-and-so. Now, we haven't got one of these little two-by-four preachers down there (little Acts 2 and 4, you know). We got Dr. So-and-so, Ph.D., LL.D. He's a--he's a Hartford graduate (or something like that). Why, I'd rather have a man with my child that didn't know split beans from coffee, and but knowed that he's been filled with the Holy Ghost, than a man with all kinds of degrees that knows no more about God than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. Yes, sir.
What we need today is back to the real message--right back to real plain, down, old time, heartfelt, God sent, salvation of Pentecost. Back to the message.
Got too much compromising today, letting down. Ministers with great programs...?... say, "Can't say that to the people because they wouldn't sponsor me." Why, God's our Sponsor. Why, my, you tell the truth and watch what God will do for you. But you see, we got too much of that in the land today.


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