<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 Now... But Mary said, "Well, we... I know I once knew Him." But she was weeping in sorrow, because she once knew Him, but He--they had--they had taken Him away. And that's the way it is today. Each one of us tries to some kind of a philosophical theology to try to poke down with some kind of a psychology in somebody's throat and tell them, "We--we believe this, and we believe that."
But Jesus said, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
And the church said, "They've taken away my Lord." What did they do with Him? Yet today, many because of the lackness and slowness and leanness of the church, believes that the Jewish story back there that was told, that they come stole Him out of the grave at nighttime, still think it's so. I believe it was about seventy percent of the Protestants didn't even believe in the--the physical resurrection or the literal coming. A statistics showed it. They simply deny it. Many of them, thousands of them deny the virgin birth.

L-22 "They've took away my Lord." Why? They have to. If you can't believe in the physical resurrection, then you cannot preach a Christ that's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You can't take His Word, then what about it? We make ourselves unbelievers and infidels. No wonder the little church cries, "Where is my Lord? Where is the God of history? Where is Jesus that was, that said He would be with us, always He'd go before us, and He'd be in us to the end of the world, the works that He did?" And when the church sees that come to pass, they're so busy with making organizations. And that didn't come out of their organization, they class it the devil, and throw it away just exactly the way they did then. So it's still a bewildered.

L-23 "They've took away my Lord. I've went to the communion table; they told me if I come take the holy eucharist and--and believe on the church that... Well, I went and I did that, and what did I see? Nothing. A lot of theology, a lot of psychology. But to find my risen Lord, I didn't find Him. They told me if I'd be sprinkled, I--I would certainly get it. And I did that way. And they told me if I'd be baptized face forward, that would be it. Backwards, I'd get it that way. I've done all the baptisms. I've joined all the churches. I read all of their creeds, and where is my Lord? Who took Him away?"
"They have taken Him away." Who took Him away? The organization took Him away. Now, deny that once, and I will prove to you that that's exactly by the history. The thing that took Him away, it formed the Catholic church, was an organization. And the Protestants turn right back around and do the same thing the Catholic church did, make an organization out of it. And when you do that you take away God. Watch history; watch the Scriptures and see if it isn't fulfilled, exactly. "They've took Him away."


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