<TITLE>18. Par 158-165</TITLE>L-158 Where It said, "Baptize in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ," they make "Father, Son, Holy Ghost," three gods out of It. They take all kinds of dogmas and make up all kinds of things, and sprinkling instead of immersing: everything. Make some kind of a man-made wallow out of it instead of putting it in the Jewel in the great King, Christ. Oh, hallelujah. That's God incarnate: Christ.
They corrupt the ways of God, let the people come in the church, women with bobbed hair, wearing makeup, dresses on that looks scandalous: men so sissified, let a woman lead them around by the ear. Come to the church, and playing bunco and bingos, and all kinds of corruption things. And preachers and so forth out on banks with naked women dressed in bathing suits and going swimming, smoking cigarettes, and calling themselves servants of God, when this temple is a holy temple dedicated to God, not to filth of the world. It's true.
But they taken the jewels of God and made a hog out of it, or a fox, or a dog, or a polecat, or something, and feed it to the unlearned, the ignorant.

L-160 Thank you, Doc. I had one here, but I just didn't think about using it: a handkerchief.
Yes, that's what they do. Irenaeus was so right. What does God think about all this? Is it just like what they tried to say, "Oh, it doesn't matter to Him?" It does matter to Him. It is mattering. Why did He tell Jeremiah the things that He did then? Why did He say that? It does matter. God's got a way.
What if Moses said, "I'll take off my hat instead of my shoes?" He'd have never saw the vision. You've got to come God's way. God has a way.

L-164 There's so much we could say. Let's just turn to one Scripture here. I got many of them wrote down. Let's turn to Numbers 25, just a minute, Numbers 25. We'll see whether it--it matters anything to God or not. Let's see if it does, whether these creeds, dogmas, and so forth does matter. "He's a good God, He just overlooks the whole thing." He doesn't. He lays a line and draws a plummet, and you've got to come to It.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people begin to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. (Listen.)
And they called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. (No wonder He said, "Don't pray for that kind of people." See?)
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his man that... joined unto Baal-peor.

L-165 "Slay every one of them." God wants to be God, and if He ain't God, He ain't going to be second place. He don't have to let Baal and some man-made dogma, and some theory of some man, or some idea of a creed, or some idea of a--of a denomination stand in His way. He's God. And He's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. He don't have to have your denominations. He don't have to have your big societies and your schools and things. He takes what He can get in His hand that's nothing, breathes the breath of Life into it, and it becomes something that'll serve Him. That's what makes Him God. Certainly, it matters to God.
You say, "It doesn't matter." It does matter. Certainly, it matters.


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