<TITLE>10. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 Now, we tried to do it then with denominations. We thought maybe if we could get our denominations to grow... And what did we do? In making our denominations (which is all right, nothing against them)... But the thing that we done with our denominations, we just started pulling for that denomination, and the first thing you know we didn't give the other brother enough blanket to keep warm by. See? And we separated ourselves then. You see? And in doing that, then we caused something to happen among us, that should not have happened. And we find out that that just don't work.
Our intellectual talks (which is fine--only wish I could do it), but that ain't what counts in the sight of God; it's the Holy Spirit. God never did ordain such. He ordained and commissioned His church to go preach the Gospel. The Gospel is not intellectual. The Gospel came not in word only, but through power and demonstrations, manifestations of the Holy Spirit. That's what brought the Gospel.

L-42 Here not long ago in Chicago, a full Gospel group called for a meeting. And they went to a certain big Bible school, and they got a great intellectual speaker. It was advertised all over the city, about this great speaker from a certain great school, with such a name, my, And all the degrees on the end of the name, until they thought that would just be it. And when crowds gathered in to hear the man, when he raised up in the back of the building with a suit on, the collar turned around, and his speech under his arm, walked up and spread it across the place...
And the speech, my, it was superb. There was no one could say a word against that speech. It was perfect. The grammar was exact. His actions and his pulpit manners were perfect. He never stammered, stuttered, or slobbered like a lot of us do. But he brought his speech out with such eloquence...

L-43 But he thought, "With this bunch of an illiterate people, I'll get up there and show them what it really means to be a preacher." With his chest out he walked up all puffed up and gave this speech. But he found out that didn't set with that kind of a crowd. It went over the top of their heads. So much great big, swelled-out words, they didn't get it.
So after while, when he seen he was wrong, he gathered up his speech and put it on his arm. His shoulders dropped, his head dropped, his knees hanging, he drooped back down, humble, humiliated, off of the pulpit.
There was an old saint setting back there, looking around, touched another one, said, "If he would've went up the way he come down, he'd have come down the way he went up. "
So that's just about right. Until man knows that he knows nothing, and he will humble hisself before God, and expect the Holy Ghost to do the work... That's the thing. Man cannot achieve nothing by his intellectuals. He must depend solely upon God.

L-44 Now, man doing this shows that there is an achievement somewhere for this great cause of being redeemed. And God made that achievement. He did that, and He made it so simple: it was by faith. God told... in beginning it is always been by faith. Today you're not saved by works, by good things, by joining church, by being educated. You're only saved by faith, and that by the grace of God. You're saved by faith by believing what God has already done.


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