<TITLE>04. Par 13-14</TITLE>L-13 Go tell who? His bewildered disciples. They were certainly bewildered. And they didn't know what to do. Many of them had returned back to their fishnets. They wanted to go back to catching fishes. They were bewildered because they didn't know what--how to make the ends meet. They had absolutely trusted that He was the Messiah, and here He was dead, and--and they didn't know what to do now. But "Go, tell this bewildered church that I am alive and I'll go before them, and I'll meet them in Galilee as I have promised to do."
That church, bewildered then, is no worse than the church is today. It still is bewildered. It can't make out the Scriptures. It cannot understand why that Mark 16 was written in the Bible, and they so bewildered they say, "It wasn't inspired." And they find other Scriptures and say, "The Holy Spirit was applied to another day and not this day." They find other Scriptures where miracles was to be done, and they claim that all the days of miracles is past. Talk about bewildered, they're more than bewildered now than they were then, but something like they was; because the only thing that those disciples had to comfort them, was a past experience. And the church today is a great deal that way, even to the Pentecostals, trying to satisfy themselves with a Acts 2:4, some past experience. But oh, that message of the living God still lives today. Why are you bewildered? "I go before you; I'm not dead; I'm alive," He says, "forevermore."

L-14 But the bewildered, they become so bewildered till they try to organize some new "ism." And it ain't long until that new "ism," is like always, becomes a "wasm." They got a latter rain, and a former rain, and a middle rain, and a this, and a that, and another, some kind of an organization, denomination, and what happens to it? It dies just like all organization dies. And they're--they--they're bewildered. "Well now, we don't know what to do, we've got to get these people together. We--we got to separate ourself from this group or from that group." Just still bewildered, not knowing what to do, they don't know the real Easter message. The real Easter message wasn't going to make organizations: was to go and preach the Gospel, demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit, and let Him take the church into His hand. But they're still bewildered, don't know what to do, and how.
And the people ought to realize that every time, down through the history... I ask any theologian, any historian, to ever tell me, that where God ever took an organization and done anything besides make a group of people. It's a man-made system. Not the people in there, but it's a system of organization. And every time that God sent a revival, He took somebody away from some organization to start a revival. And every time that that man, after he got the revival started, and the people behind it organized it, it died right there and never raised again. Now, you show me the history page and number of where ever a organization raised after it once organized. It died right there. They become stillborn children, and that's dead children. What they need is some Gospel spanking, exactly, to bring it back to life again.


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