<TITLE>09. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 And from the altar of Abel came the cry of a lamb. There was death to pay the penalty. Blood was being shed.
And today, when God... Just like it was in that day when He told Cain, Cain was discouraged. He said, "Here's the best I can do. You can take it or leave it. Do anything You want to about it, but that's all I can do about it."
That's the way the modern Christian worships today: "I go to church. I help the preachers. I pay my tithing. I--I--I... If they got any social party, I--I--I--put my part on it. And if the--if they need a missionary offering, I--I help in it." That's good. But that's not what God requires.
He's got to hear the sound of death. Bless God, what God wants today, is you to die, die to the things of the world and yourself, hear a scream, "Lord, take me as I am." That's what God wants. He wants that sound of death, that death rattle of old man Adam, that's dying, that He might come in and take His place, and rule you, and be your Lord. Oh, what a time that we are living.

L-38 Now, we see... God told Cain; He said, "Go ahead and worship like your brother Abel. and you'll do well. Go ahead and do the way he's a doing. It'll be all right with you." But if he didn't, sin lay at the door. And the same thing today... So we find that there's no certain sound to the church--the church, so-called.
Now, the church--we make the church the church today, called the church an organization. We say that's the church. "Uh, what church do you belong to?" Why there's only one church. There's only one. There's many organizations, but one church, many organizations. And as I've want to make it clear, I have nothing again them; they've played a great part. But that's not it yet. It's not it.

L-39 Through... the "church," means "the called out, the separated." And two people can't live in you the same time. You've got to die out to the things of the world to serve God. You can't love God and mammon at the same time. And as long as the love of the world is in the--the--the believer's heart, he crowds out and deprives himself from the privileges that God's give him. God don't want you to be underprivileged. He wants you to have every privilege that He died for. Every privilege He gave the church, He wants you to enjoy it; it's yours.
What if I bought my little boy a bicycle or an--he'd throw it back in my face and say, "I don't want the thing," unappreciated. What if you bought your little girl a--a little doll, and she picked it up and throwed it back at you, ungrateful? See, that's the way we are, when we try to live under the privileges that God gave us. Christ died that we might have these privileges. Oh, how He must feel today when we've adopted some other program, and throwed the Holy Spirit back in His face, and saying, "We don't need that fanaticism any more."

L-40 "I'll just join church. I--I'm a..." You can't join church. There's no such a thing as joining church. You--you might join an organization, but you can't join church, because you have to be borned in the church. You cannot join into it. You've got to be borned into it. And all believers are borned into the church of God the church of, not the organization Church of God, but the church of the living God, which is Christ raised from the dead and a living among us. That's... now...
Then there's uncertain sounds when they say, "I'm Pentecostal Assemblies. I'm Pentecostal United. I'm Pentecostal Church of God. I'm Pentecostal Holiness. I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm Presbyterian." All those things, they're all right as far as that goes.


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