<TITLE>07. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 But that wasn't God's program. That was our program, to make our churches and denominations. We tried it in the garden of Eden. It's as old as Eden was. "Religion" means "a covering." And Adam tried to cover himself to make his own way, cover hisself up, but it didn't work.
There's only one place that God ever meets man; that's not in his education; it's not in his denomination, his affiliation; it's under the Blood. And that's the only place that God ever did or ever will meet mankind, is under the Blood. That's the place. God laid down the program in the garden of Eden by the shed blood.
And if God ever makes a decision, He can never change it, because He's perfect, And everything that He does and says is perfect. Therefore, He cannot change His program as long as there is a world and long as there's a sinner. There's only one way, since the garden of Eden, when sin was first committed, until the last sin will be made. There's only one plan of redemption; that's through the shed Blood. Nothing else will work. Our creeds, our denominations, and everything has played a part, and a good part, but it isn't God's program. His program is back to the Blood.

L-29 So churches has also got uncertain sound. One of them says, "The days of miracles is past." That's very uncertain to the Bible. See? The other one says why... different things and... "You got to recite this creed," and you got to do this, and that, and so forth. Well... So uncertain, because there's too many of them. They make up all kinds of--of--of different things against one another, one contrary to this and contrary to that, and about ninety-five percent of it contrary to the Bible.
So there's an uncertain sound amongst the churches, amongst politics, amongst home. Everything seems to be uncertain.

L-30 Now, the Bible said, here in II Timothy 3 and 7, that these days would come. It said that they would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than the lovers of God, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Now, that is right.
The television has come into the home and holds people away from the prayer meetings. It's got an attraction to it that's attractive and beautiful. And I don't say that some of the programs isn't all right. There's a lot of it that isn't. We know that. But I don't... Yes, ninety-nine percent of it, isn't all right. But say, there'd be one percent of it. Well, what you get in that one percent, would you mean to give up that one percent for the church of the living God, where it's a hundred percent right, stay away on Wednesday night from prayer meetings?

L-31 But sin is attractive. Any way you take it, sin is attractive to the human being, because he's a subject of--of the fallen race that we are. And it's attractive. Satan knows how to make it attractive. He's a--he's a genius at his job.
And he... And if he can't get it out there in the world affair, he brings it right into the church. He comes right over on our own ground. That's the reason, brethren, sisters, we should recognize him. It's time that the church was spiritual to recognize, know God, not by creed, not by denomination, but by experience, being filled with the Holy Ghost.

L-32 A few days ago, over in California, I just come out of Beaumont and different places, where we been having meetings. And the anointing of the Holy Spirit was great upon me at the time, like it gets on you and the rest of us. And you could walk out on the street and just feel the pressure. Now, if you don't have that anointing on you, you don't pay much attention to it. You just go along.
Listen, church, that's the reason that someone thinks I'm real hard on them. It isn't that. I don't want to be rough on people. But if you just come down under the anointing to where you can feel the Presence of God, then walk into the presence of sin, it turns you around. And you can't hold your peace, got to say something. And it's the anointing of the Holy Spirit.


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