<TITLE>11. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 Now, when that is fail, now they're trying to bring the people into a fellowship. After that they thought they would denominate the world. The Methodist would have their denomination, the Baptist would have theirs, and the Catholics would have theirs, and the Pentecostals would have theirs. And that was another fatal mistake. You can never do it; you'll never do it; you're just fighting as much air as they was on the educational program. You'll never be able to do it. It's not God's plan in the beginning. You say, "Well, we have a great program. We have..." That may be so, but the church is programmed to death. That's right. We don't need programs; we need prayer meetings. That's right. We--we don't need education.
We need salvation, is what we need. Salvation doesn't lay in education. Salvation doesn't lay in denomination. Education plays its part. Denomination plays its part. But that ain't the--that ain't the fundamental reason for--that ain't the way we'll ever get back to fellowship again.

L-34 Now, set here, and here's a man who's a Baptist, and here's one over here is a Pentecostal. They're setting in one another's age. Then the Pentecostal Oneness, and the Pentecostal Threeness, and the Pentecostal, how many, you know, all like this. And the--and the Church of God, Four square, every one (See?), right at edge with one another. If the Assemblies would bring me into a city then the rest of them has nothing to do with it. If the others bring in, none of the rest of them have nothing to do with it. See? That's the way it seems to be. You'll never be able to denominate people to fellowship. You cannot do it. It just won't do. Just--it just won't work; it's not God's program.

L-35 Now, do you see the great thing they're doing now? God never destroyed anything. But man destroys himself by his own wisdom. There were two trees in the garden of Eden. One of them was the tree of life; the other one was the tree of knowledge. The first time a man taken a bite from the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite, he destroys himself. He bit off gun powder, kills his comrade. Next thing he bit off was automobiles, kills more than the gun power. He's got himself an atomic bomb now, what is he going to do with that? See, he destroys himself. All the time through his knowledge he's accomplished... Why won't he come back to this simple tree of faith here and believe? See? That's all he has to do.


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