<TITLE>14. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 Notice. But this must be said. How that the Holy Spirit was made Tutor over the house of God, not some dominating bishop, not some overpowering organization, not some of these man-made theories. The child of God is to listen to the Holy Spirit, the writing of the Word: the real child of God, the real son of Abraham. Now, here's where the separating time comes. Notice.
"Oh," you say, "we're Pentecostal." You settled it. But you just got started then. See? Now, how he must've felt. How the Holy Spirit must feel today to go before God the Father. I want you to tell me, on the day of Pentecost, did God ordain a Roman priest to be father, tutor? Did He ordain a Methodist bishop? Pentecostal presbyter? No, sir. He sent the Holy Ghost down to be the Ruler of the church. That's exactly right. What happened to it?

L-47 Jesus, catching John up, and He said there he'd not die. And some of them said He said it, but He didn't do it. Said, "What will happen to this man at the resurrection? What business is yours if He stays, till I come?" But instead of doing that, being that they said it, He just raised him up and showed him on over, till He did come, at the end of the church age. So He brought up...
Remember, Jesus said in the second church age, the Smyrna, there was a--a deeds of the Nicolaitanes. And what was the deeds in the second church, become a doctrine in the third church age. Now, what? That word's not used nowhere else in the Bible. I looked it up, to find out what it was. "Nico" means "to conquer." "Laitane" means "the laity: "conquer the laity," make a holy man, somebody that's holier than thou art. Just go up and get somebody, and he will be some half god, or something like that, to stand up and... You do what you please, and he will forgive the sins, and there you go: "conquer the lady, laity," take the Holy Spirit away from the church out there and put It all on the platform. That was not God's way of doing it. No man on the platform's got a right to say, he's the only one that has got the Holy Ghost, and he's the only one got a say so in it.
The Holy Spirit is to whole entire Body of Christ, out through there, where tongues, interpretations, gifts, manifestations of the Holy Spirit. But we conquered it. Sure.

L-48 The very thing that we come out of, Pentecost went right back into it again, just as hard as they could go. The very thing that you used to call, "old formal Baptists and Methodists," it--it ain't formal Baptists; it's formal Pentecostals now. You done the same thing that you come--your fathers come out of. You turned right back around and done the same thing and bottled It up, made one church over here, and another over here, and fighting one another. If this person don't come to your church, you have no cooperation with it.

L-49 Oh, you poor backslidden hypocritical, so called, Christian. Shame on you. Your hour is at hand. God will punish you for that, as certain as I be His servant standing here. Separating the laity and making differences between brethren. God have mercy. Nothing against the Pentecostals, that system... Nothing against the Catholic, it's the system of Catholicism. Nothing against the Methodist, it's that system. Nothing against the Lutheran, it's the system. Justification by Luther was right, but when they systemized it by organizing it, they did wrong. And the Wesley... Luther never organized it; the ones after him did. Wesley never organized it; the ones after him did. And it wasn't the Pentecostal fathers that come out of that corruption, it's you bunch after them did. Exactly what you done. That's where we're at today. If the Pentecostal church would stand two hundred years from now, the dis... the...?... the ground that it's gained in the world in this past thirty years, or forty, it would be worse off than the Catholic doctrine today. The Catholics started at Pentecost too. What did it? Twisting up. Now, but the true seed remains right.


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