<TITLE>12. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Why do you want to take a substitute when the skies are full of genuine Pentecostal power? Why would I take a handshake or some dried eye profession, when the Holy Ghost fills the room and ready to fill your heart with the real genuine...?... Pentecost? Why would we take some substitute for it? Let me have Christ. Amen, truly.
And if the Life of Christ is in you, It'll do the same thing. That was God's example church, was Pentecost. If we claim to begin from there, then what's happened? What along the road taken place? We'll get to it later if you'll just bear with me a little bit.
Now, notice, now we find out that in this great church, this great age of perversion, the homosexuals... I picked up a magazine, or it wasn't a magazine, it was a newspaper in California a few weeks ago when I was there in Los Angeles. And they said that homosexuals had increased forty percent. Think of it: forty percent to what it was a few years ago. What is it? Perversion, men, women, everything is becoming perverted. It isn't back to the original any more. The regular, natural of life is changed in men. His mind is changed; his spirit is changed. He's changed everything from the original. Oh, isn't it a pitiful thing? It's such a...

L-46 Well, that's exactly what the Bible said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." God cannot pour out His Spirit upon a just people and be just; they have to get in this condition for the judgments of God. And we're about there now, friends. If you'd just stick to the rest of the week maybe the Lord will reveal it and we'll see what--how close we are one of these nights to the coming of the Lord. Don't never think about the great crowds. It's the minority. It's the little church that God is coming after. Remember that. All right.

L-47 Eve was the first one to pervert the human race. She was the one, the Eve which represents a church. A woman in the Bible always represents the church. Christ is coming for an espoused virgin. The old prostitute of the Bible was called "the church setting on the seven hills," the Roman church. Oh, church... And she had daughters, which was the others that followed her and come out of her, was born from her in their same denominational barriers and same thing, same kind of a system.
In them churches, there are fine people. But it's the system that binds them. It's not the church itself; it's the people in the church. It's the system behind it that binds them, puts them into a place, breaks out fellowship, won't let them go on with God. And it's a pitiful thing. But that's what does...
That's what God hates. Not the people in there, but the system that's binding them is what He hates, is that organization that tells them if they go to another church they're going to be excommunicated. And the people don't know what to do. They'll pay for it someday.

L-48 But Eve, how did she become perverted to start the first perverted religion? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... for a moment...?... What she did. Satan gave her some of God's Word.
That's exactly what Satan tries to do all along. That's what he does tonight. That's what he does in Bible schools; that's what he does in these theological seminaries. He gives some of the Word and then adds some man-made word in it (It's exactly right.), which makes it a hybrid religion. Oh, we have the prettier churches, sure, best dressed crowds, highly educated, with great preachers with all kinds of college degrees and things like that. But what can we do? We can't go back to the original again, because you can't bring yourself back no more than a mule can go back. You got to be borned again as individuals by the Spirit of God of Pentecost. That's right. The blessing that fell...


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