<TITLE>05. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now... But as it was then when these messengers came from the tomb that morning to tell these disciples that the--He had risen from the dead, and was alive among them, and was going before them, and He would meet them at a certain designation... What a beautiful thing it is yet, our Christ still goes before us. There's a designation, "I'll meet you in the air on that morning." And the churches still believes it. The real true church of the living God, we're waiting for that change to come. When we watch the process of His church, the seed of Abraham, come up like he did Abraham; and we're still waiting now for that great meeting in the air, where we shall see Him, caught up with those who've waited behind us. They'll raise from the dead and we'll be quickened in a moment, in a twinkle of an eye to be caught up to meet Him in the air, and forever be with Him. We're still got a designation. And we're to hold to this and believe it with all our hearts.

L-16 But they in that day was too busy, took up with other things and casting their nets, and going back to the fishing. And we are today the same thing, is took up with so many different this, that, and the other, and so many isms, and so many denominations, and so many organizations. And the--the chief presbyter, and we got to really watch what kind of a meeting we cooperate with, because the district superintendent will turn us out. And--and then if we go down to such and such a meeting, the pastor will turn us out. And if the--oh, the bishop will do something to us, or the church will excommunicate us. Oh, and we're so busy watching our members to see that they don't go to no other church, or have anything else to do but just our little clique... We're so busy with that... It's just like swapping members one with another; and it's just like taking one corpse from one morgue to another, just exactly. Don't know the resurrection is past and we're already enjoying it, but just swapping corpse from one to the other, just about the way it turns.

L-17 Oh, it's hard for them to understand it, that our Christ is alive. He's not dead but He lives forevermore and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. But we're so busy, took up with so many different things; the church has got so much to do and so busy about this and that, we haven't got time to look into these things. And if we hear it come from a messenger, "Oh, it's stories like they believed then. Oh, them silly women was over there it's hard to tell what they... They're making up something." See, we're too busy with other things. Why not take a little time to study it out? Set down before Him and "Come, let us reason together, saith God: though your unbelief be like scarlet, it'll be white like snow; though it be red like crimson, it'll be white like wool."
But we are so busy. We've got to see that none of our twoness don't become threeness and our threeness don't become oneness, and so forth; we just got to be sure that we watch that. And what it is, Christ living all the time in His church, and we're--we're, as I said, carrying from morgue to morgue. And there we are. Now, that's just the way it was then; that's the way it is today, something on the same thing.


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