<TITLE>04. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 Now, we remember that by this Holy Spirit we are brought into the body of Christ and free from the judgments of God. We cannot come into judgment after you are in Christ, because Christ took the judgment for you. He stood in the place just like Adam. In the beginning Adam was not deceived, and II Timothy tells us so, said, "Adam was not deceived, but Eve, being deceived was in the transgression."
Now, Adam was not deceived. He knowed exactly what he was doing. But Eve was deceived. She thought she was doing what was right. Satan give her about ninety-five percent pure Gospel. And the other five percent was enough to throw that off. So we've got to be not just part Gospel. We got to be Full Gospel. We got to have the entire Word. For the antichrist is a part Gospel preacher. We know that. And his works are part Gospel.

L-14 Jesus said in Matthew 24:35 that--that antichrist in the last days would so close like the real Christ, till it would deceive the very elected, if it was possible. I heard our Brother Billy Graham say a few days ago in a message, that the antichrist had already deceived the elected. But that isn't so. Brother Billy, I... Not disagreeing with a great evangelist like that. But they cannot... If it was possible, but it's not possible, because the church was elected to eternal salvation, and there--there's nothing can separate them. They are Christ's. And that's--that's it. They're in the body of Christ and nothing can separate them. And that's part of the subject this afternoon.
Now, we're going to approach and find out what Abraham was, and then what his seed would be after him. And now, I'd like to say this now in regards... The first church, that Christian church that was established, was established in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. Every theologian will have to agree with that. Every theologian takes their church back to that time; the Catholic church. And it's true, the Catholic church begin on the day of Pentecost; exactly right.

L-15 But on down about two hundreds years after, three hundred years later, they got away from that, and become come into an organization. And then they organized a great universal church, which "Catholic" means "universal." And from that they begin to have a apostolic succession, and bring up another man to take Peter's place, and popes. They begin to call them after bishops and on and on. And they actually begin at Pentecost. That was right. 'Cause all Christendom begin at Pentecost.
Now, the thing that I wonder, if all we believe that we begin back there, then why are not we doing as they did back there? Why haven't we got the blessing of God upon the church as they had then, let us be Catholic, or whatever we are? Then why haven't we got the same spirit, moving and doing the same works that they did back there? Is because we get a little something another, and settle down on it, and make a doctrine out of it, and a period, and organize it, and let it go back like that. And then we say, "Here we are." God moves right off and leaves us. That's just what He did to Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodists, and Pentecostals, and on and on. He's done the same thing. And He will continue to do it, when you draw a line and say, that "Well, we're going to group ourself together, and separate ourself from the rest of them." The Bible said they'd do that in the last days, seemingly not having the faith. And that's right. We want the faith that was once...


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