<TITLE>16. Par 132-146</TITLE>L-132 When these pagans were converted, they brought in these symbols unto Christianity. They could not use the Bible any more, because the Bible exposed this. And they'll tell you right today that they don't have--they don't believe That. They say, "It's all right, but the church is the supreme Word."
Well, we find the same thing in Pentecost. Don't holler about Catholic, when we're just as guilty, the Methodist, Baptist, and every one of them.
You Methodists so holy, why did you kill Joseph Smith then? This is America, and a right to worship. I don't believe what Joseph Smith said, but you had no right killing him (Right.), the Mormon.
You Baptists. How many have you covered up? The rest of you? And Pentecost, just as guilty as the rest of them, becomes a stuffed shirt and a bunch of hypocrisy. And instead of the humility, and the power of the Spirit, you've got the Word without the Spirit. And you do more harm than you would if you was like the rest of them back in their pagan ceremonies with all kind of trinitarian ideas, and all this other stuff. You can't prove it by the Word. The Word's contrary to it. How pitiful. How pitiful.

L-137 So when they formed the first church of Rome, the Christianity, they had to dismiss the Bible and to take up these ceremonies. In order to do it, they had to have some kind of a background. So they said Peter was the first pope of Rome. And he still remains that way; they say. Well, let's say he was. Would Peter back down on the Words of Pentecost? Could you imagine a Jew setting up idols?
And when I can prove to you by written Word out of the Bible, exactly the days and years, that Peter never did leave Palestine but one time, and went to Babylon down by the Euphrates. Never was in Rome, by the Scriptures, THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's all a pagan idea.
Now we're going to bring that right out into Protestantism. Look at Pentecost without taking the Word. Stay with that Word and you're always right; get off that Word, you'll go anywhere.

L-140 Here sometime ago, at a great meeting with a big Pentecostal school, a woman jumped up speaking in tongues and interrupted the altar call. And that night when I come back in, Billy met me out there and said, "You know what? That woman said she had another message tonight she was going to give."
And I looked at the woman: bobbed hair, a dress on so tight looked like she was poured into it, setting up there fixing her hair, pulling up her stockings. I knowed she was going to jump up. And she jumped up, and I said, "Set down." She just kept on. I said, "Do you hear me? Set down." Oh, my.
When I went out that night, there was four or five of them guys met me out there with her, said, "You grieved the Spirit."
I said, "Any spirit that I grieve with the Word of God ought to be grieved." I said, "Don't the Bible say that the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet? If she's testifying, which prophecy is--is... Speaking in tongues is prophecy if it's interpreted." I said, "Then let her wait till I am finished, then she can have it."
He said, "But you're teaching the Word."
I said, "That's what I'm standing by."
He said, "She had something fresh and new from heaven, something different from that." If that isn't back to Roman Catholicism I don't know what it is. Let every man's word be a lie and every spirit be a lie, and God's Word be the Truth. God's Word's first.

L-146 What's the trouble today, they have so many revelations and false things. It's prostrating themselves out there, and opening up their heart to devils instead of staying with God's Word. That's where the trouble lays. That's what's the matter. People, honest, sincere, good people, but you can't tell them. "Why, we believe this as Pentecostal people." "We believe this, as Baptist people."
I believe This because It's the Word of God. I challenge anybody to correct me in It. See? That's right. This is the Word. Stay with This. This is true.


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