<TITLE>20. Par 76-80</TITLE>L-76 Oh, you say, "But I'm So-and-so. I belong to..." It wasn't so at the beginning.
If you say, "But Jesus, You know, I belong to the holy..."
"It wasn't so at the beginning." That's right. He'd say the same thing.
"Why, we believe that the days of miracles has passed."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
"We don't believe you have to speak with tongues."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
"We don't believe in Divine healing."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
Go back to the beginning; go back where the church started. And it started on the day of Pentecost with the Holy Ghost pouring down upon the people, and filling their heart, and filling their souls until they died as martyrs, burnt the earth up with their message of salvation. Get away from our man-made creeds and get back to the Bible. Yes, go back to the beginning; that's where we start.

L-77 Now, look, I stood... Now, we all know... so I clear this up with you; we are a grafted tree. That's right. But we are grafted in Jesus Christ from the old Jewish orthodox until the whole tree now is Jesus. We're grafted by that. But let me show you something.
I was in Phoenix the other day where I saw several fruits growing on one orange tree. There was a lemon, and a grapefruit and a tangerine, and all kinds of fruits growing out of the--out of a orange tree. And I said to Brother John Sharritt, a Pentecostal brother. I said, "Brother John, what... Is--is--isn't--isn't that the... What kind of a tree would you call that?"
And he said, "That's an orange tree."

L-78 Well, I said, "How does it have lemons on it, and how does it have grapefruits, and tangelos, and tangerines, and, oh, several different kinds of citrus fruit?"
"Oh," he said, "they were grafted into it?"
I said, "But I want to ask you something. Now, when blossoming time comes, does that grapefruit blossom?"
"Yes, sir."
"Does the lemon blossom?"
"Yes, sir, right by the orange."
"But what kind of fruit does it bear 'cause it's living in this tree? Does it bear the same kind of fruit that... Does it next year it'll bear oranges?"
He said, "No, sir."
"What will it bear?"
He said, "Grapefruit. The lemons will bear lemons."
I said, "Living in this tree?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Hallelujah. I see it now."

L-79 Brother, the church is a Pentecostal church. The life that's in the Vine come up into one church and get a Pentecostal experience. And behind it they have all kinds of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, the signs of Jesus Christ. And today we have grafted into it every different kind of a denomination: Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and even Pentecostal, so called, grafted into it, but they don't bear the original fruit. They don't have the original experience, yet they are suckling off of the name of Christianity. Hallelujah. That's right.
That Vine ever brings forth another branch, it'll be a Pentecostal branch with signs following the believer. Right. Back to the original. These hybrid things won't work. I know they're sticking in there, called "Christianity," but they're not Christianity. The fruits... "By their fruits you shall know them." And why can't they? They'll never go back. They can never be an orange because they're hybrid, yet, they wanted the name of Christian. But they're hybrid.

L-80 Oh, I know and you may think I'm off of my head, but that's the truth. Every time it brings forth, what will it do, have a revival? Sure, it will bear what? Lemons. A Methodist will bear Methodist, Baptist will bear back Baptist denomination, Pentecostal denomination will bear Pentecostal. But when they go back to the original Vine and come from the root (Hallelujah.), they'll come forth with the baptism of the Holy Ghost like they did at the beginning. And the same works and signs that followed Jesus will follow, and followed that early church will follow the church today.
You say, "I'd do so-and-so."
"But it wasn't so at the beginning."


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