<TITLE>08. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Seven days. And it was... Remember, it was on that seventh day that they recognized what they had done.
And I think we've come down through Luther, Wesley, and--and Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and on down like that; and now it's in this last age, that we've just recognized what we've done. I believe it's this time now, that the Pentecostal church has recognize what it's done. The real Spirit-filled leaders, the real Spirit-filled Christians of the Pentecostal move, they recognize that something's happened. They've cooled off.
Because everybody trying to live on the mountain top, gone off without God. What we need today is get back to God, get back to the experience, get back. Well, it's in the seventh hour that they recognized that they were out there without fruit: no love. Fussing one another. "You're Oneness. And you're Threeness. And--and you belong to Assemblies. And you're Church of God. And you're this, that or the other. We won't have nothing to do with you." Calling one another one bad name and one--the other--bad name.

L-32 And the world turns around and looks and said, "What's the matter with them people?" Both of them speaking in tongues in this church and prophesying and going on. This one over here at this church and... They have... They don't even respect one another. They haven't got any decency for each other.
Oh, what we need today is back to the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, faith, long-suffering. God can send a gift among them and they will call it telepathy. They will call it the devil. They will call it something else. If one church is sponsoring it and the other one pick it up, it's all right now. Because this one had something to do with it, it's no good. Oh, my, my.
What a pitiful condition? Yes, sir. We realize that the fruit of faith, the fruit of love, joy, peace, faith, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience... Patience? Why, they can't bear a few seven days with one another hardly, seven hours, sometime not even seven minutes. They will jump up and run out of the church if you say something that's not just exactly what their little pet theory is. They got to get up and run out of church over it. Oh, they just can't sit still a minute. They got to get out of there.
"Aw, that ain't what Pastor So-and-So says. Hallelujah, I don't have to listen to no such stuff." Get out. Oh, you miserable... All right. There you are. Go ahead...

L-33 But that's it. You see? They've lost all the fruit. We realize that. The fruit of the Spirit is dry, all topped off, and laying withered away, powdered, ready to blow away. It's such a condition. We realize now, that our great organizations, they're all right, the organization, as long as it keeps God in it, as long as it has the fruit of the Spirit in it, as long as it's loving and kind and willing to fellowship and help the next brother. No matter how--what he believes. If he's a brother and God's give him the Holy Ghost... God gives those the Holy Ghost who obeys Him. That's right.
So if you've got the Holy Ghost, the Methodists has got the Holy Ghost, and the Baptists has got the Holy Ghost, and the Presbyterians has got the Holy Ghost, and Oneness has got the Holy Ghost, and the Church of God's got the Holy Ghost, well, what are you fussing about?
Let's get together. Let's move on. That's--that's what we need. See, it isn't the organization; it's the system in that organization that pulls away. That's the devil that does that.


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