<TITLE>20. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Got ten more minutes; I hope we don't have to carry this over till tomorrow night. "After," means "a finished work has done, already been completed." Now, now, my precious friend, I do not make any differences in churches. They're all just the same to me, the denominations. And if I have to call a church's name here, I'm not meaning it and anywhere. There's just as many good people in that church as there is in any. Because there's only one church. And we're not joined into it; we don't have any name in this church; it's just the body of Christ, the mystical body.
You have your organizations then; that's perfectly all right, as long as you don't draw your fence down here, don't let your brother in (See?), or condemn him. The thing, if you'll recognize that there's a brother over here, and a brother over here, then that's all right. But the people, when you get organization they hang to the organization instead of the cross and Christ. See? Therefore they... If you got a organization, and you draw it up, and if you end it with a comma, "We believe all of this plus as much as the Lord will reveal to us," that's good. But when you end it with a period, you die right there. And show me one's not ended with a period. Sure, it is. See?

L-60 Not the people in there, no, sir. The Catholic church, that was the first organized church in the world was the Catholic church. Ask any historian. Show me where there ever was an organization before that. The Catholic is the mother of every one of them. Revelations 17 said the same, said she was a whore, and she was a mother of harlots. And couldn't been sons, they had to be daughters. So that the Protestant harlot denominations with her. That's right. What's the difference in them? Both the same. The orneriest woman in Long Beach can bring forth a virgin daughter. But if she takes back the habits of her mother, she becomes what her mother is. That's just exactly what happened to our Protestant churches.

L-61 I'm going to call the attention to one denominational church, the first church that ever spoke to me about Jesus Christ when I was a sinner, the Seventh Day Adventist. The Seventh Day Adventist said the seal of God is His sabbath, because a seal shows a finished work, that He's been sealed in the Sabbath. And keeping the Sabbath day is a memorial that you're sealed. Now, you Adventist know that, you know Dr. Smith, and the Home Bible Circle Readings and all that. I have them all in my study, and all of Jehovah Witnesses and so forth like that. Where--whenever they raise up, I know their points. See? I know where they're going to. So now, Sabbath day is not a seal. A Sabbath day was a seal of God's creation. He finished it then and sealed it (That's right.) with His Sabbath. But it was a type of the Christian Sabbath.
Now, after He had finished His creation, He gave them the Sabbath as a seal (That's exactly right.) that He'd finished His creation. Then when He finished His plan of salvation, He had another seal. Glory.


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