<TITLE>11. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 And I like to see a real good pedigreed church, and Christian, who knows Who their Father is, who knows that God is their Father, knows that they're borned of the Holy Ghost. They can trace it right through every generation all the way back to the beginning. Not, "We started when Luther did. We started when Wesley did; we started when somebody else did." We started when Christ poured out His Spirit on the day of Pentecost: pedigreed. Amen. Brother, you speak the Word of God, he will say, "Amen" to it. Let him get the Holy Ghost, he acts just exactly like they did at the beginning because he's pedigreed stock.

L-42 Whew! I feel kinda religious right now, Yes, amen. Get so sick of this old starchy stuff. I like real religion, real, real power of God. See? Why do we have so many of these old interbred donkeys with all kinds of things mixed up, and don't know where we come from, what we belong to? If the Methodists don't treat us right, we'll join the Baptists. The Baptists don't treat us right, we go to the Presbyterian, or somewhere else.
Let's go back to Calvary and get the real stock of the Holy Ghost in us then you know where you stand, you know Who your Father is. And every time the--the Bible says anything, you punctuate it with an "Amen." Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
The old donkey, say, "I don't know about that."
But the horse--real genuine pedigreed say, "Amen." Yes, sir, pedigreed. His siring come all the way from Pentecost, all the way down. So he knows where he's standing. He's a real genuine article of God, borned of the Holy Ghost, washed in the Blood of the Lamb.

L-43 That little church has got down for fifteen hundred years through the dark ages till it was really in the minority. I was talking to a priest the other day that was interviewing. He said, "We begin at Pentecost."
I said, "That's exactly the truth, but why did you get away for? How did you ever come to lose?" I said, "What they taught back there, if that was the first pope, Peter was, then why don't you today?"
Said, "Well, we have remissions of sins. We believe... Jesus said, 'Whosoever's sins you remit, they're remitted.'"

L-44 I said, "That's true." I said, "Then remit them the way the first pope did on the day of Pentecost, then I..." I said, "I'm an old fashion... I am the old fashion Catholic." I said, "What was it? In the second church age they got what they call the deeds, Jesus said, of the Nicolaitanes. "Nico," "conquer the laity." And in the third age then, the Smyrnaean, the marriage age. And then come the Thyatira, and they made a great big organization, and leveled her down, and stamped out everything. And that little bunch of true believers of Pentecost was stamped down."
He said, "Why, it proves that the Catholic church is a great church. Look at the great storms she's withered."
I said, "With the--with the state and everything else behind her, and all the dignitaries, that's no mystery. How did the Pentecostal revive it with everything against them but God?" Amen. But we still stand with the baptism of the Holy Ghost.


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