<TITLE>18. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Oh, we could go on with the testimony, but I've got to hurry. Yes, I'm past time. Just let me wind up one more little statement. They were testifying. You know what? While them brothers was testifying, the devil happened to look over the banisters, over there somewhere over across the hill, and said, "Oh-oh. Oh-oh, I got them now. They went off without Him." And that's what the church has done today. We've had such big building programs, so much money, so much fashions, trying to pattern after the next people, till I'm afraid we've gone off without Him. Our lives prove it: gone off without Him.
Devil says, "Now, I can get them. So he begin to blow his poison breath. The sea begin to go plumb to the bottom, with big waves licking up. That's what he does today when he sees you go off without... A church just with a bunch of cold, formal, theology; an "Amen" would cause somebody to stretch their head around, wondering what happened: no spirit, no more all-night prayer meetings, no more burden for the sick, no more burden for the dying, no more burden for the sinners. Then he begins to blow his poison breath, saying, "And the days of miracles is past."

L-60 He begins to whip the little boat from side to side. "Is it real? Could it be real? Maybe we've been wrong. Maybe our fathers, who said to receive the Holy Ghost, maybe it's wrong. Wesley could've been a little out of his head. Luther could've been wrong also."
Knox, Calvin, all those fellows, and John Wesley, preached Divine healing, and believed in Divine healing, and practiced Divine healing. Every time we ever had a revival any time through the history it started with Divine healing. That's right. See if Luther didn't heal. The rest of them, all the way down, practiced Divine healing. Then they organized it, and then the winds begin to blow; 'cause when you organize it you go off without Him, and you got your own theology then. See? If you'd make your doctrine and end it with a comma: "We believe this, plus as much as that God will reveal to me." That's all--all right. But when you write up your doctrine, you end it with a period. "We believe this and that only." Then you've shut God plumb out of the thing. That's right. God just keeps moving on. He just moves.

L-61 The Pillar of Fire, as soon as Luther saw It, he come out of the Catholic church. What did they do after Luther's death? They built an organization under It. The fire left John Wesley saw It. He wanted sanctification. He went out after it. Left Luther, left the Anglicans, and went out after It. What did they do after Wesley and Asbury and them died? They made an organization. God pulled right straight out and went to the Pentecostals. Here they saw It, and away they went with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. What did you all do? Organized it, and He's pulling right away from you, going right on. See?
He just go right on, 'cause you go to fighting and fussing with one another. When you do that, you're finished. You are finished, brethren. God is love. "... this will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for another," with a hand out and a heart out. Some of the finest people in the world is in these churches, but the system of the thing (You see?), is what gives it. Fine people in the Catholic church, but it's the system that keeps them from serving God.


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