<TITLE>13. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 A fellow passed out some envelopes and say, "Put twenty-five dollars in it and I'll pray for you," tell you your crops are going to go bad if you don't--let--put in so much in the offering. When did it come to pass that Pentecost was after money? Why, brother, in the Bible times they sold what they had and distributed it to the church. And today we got to have a fleet of Cadillacs or you're not spiritual. It's a sin; it's a disgrace. We're trying to see if we can't build a better church than--than they got over there, the Presbyterian a better church than the Methodist, and saying that Jesus is coming soon. They laugh right in your face. That's right.
What we need today is not a better church; you'd be better off if you had a mission. You'd be better off standing under one of these oak trees out here or pine trees without a place to lay your head, and preaching the Gospel, than to compromise.

L-43 We're in a terrible condition, the church itself. What did it? Because we separated ourselves. One separated to this one, one separated to that one; we become great organization minded and everything. Just showing you exactly, in type, what they did then. And we would've went on over and been in the millennium.
I believe that the pas--coming of Jesus Christ is past due. I could prove it by the Bible. The Bible said... Jesus Christ said Himself, "As it was in the days of Noah..." And God was longsuffering, not willing that any should perish, was longsuffering, waiting, waiting, holding off the wrath, waiting, see if somebody else would, and waiting, waiting, waiting. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." God's longsuffering, waiting to get His church in condition.
What is it? What is it? Instead of getting in condition, we're getting farther away all the time. We ought to been in the millennium; we ought to been doing something for God. We ought to went in forty years ago. But no, we've made the same mistake they did. They come to Kadesh forty years and God turned them back because of the unbelief. What was it? The organization. The people were looking... What would it happen?
Now, you say, "What organization?" All of you, separate yourself. You say, "Can I be a--a Assembly and be spiritual?" Sure. "Can I be a Oneness and be spiritual?" Sure. God gives you the Holy Ghost if you're a Catholic. No matter what you are, as long as you're a child of God by birth in the Holy Ghost, you're God's child. Then don't just...

L-44 Remember the other brother's pulling for some cover too. The blanket's big enough for both of you. God made it that way. Don't jerk it all and wrap yourself up in it and say, "Freeze to death." If you're cold, let me help you. When it comes to a place you don't want to help a fallen brother... You think he's fallen, help him some way; stand between the gaps. Gap up the way with love. That's the cement that puts the church of God together, is the cement of God's holy love among brothers. "This will all man know you're My disciples" when you belong to the Assemblies? All man know you're My disciples when" 'cause you're Oneness, cause you're Church of God? "This will all man know you're My disciples when you have love one for the other." That's when they--we'll know; that's when the world will know that we're Christians. That's when the world will know that we're brethren and sisters, when we have love one for another. That's the mark of Christianity, is love one for another. When we get that, then God will begin to work among us and bring us milk, honey, great things. Why, it's good when we find what God's plan and move into it.


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