<TITLE>14. Par 61-65</TITLE>L-61 No wonder even our Pentecostal groups... As bad as I hate to say it, our Pentecostal groups are falling right into that same thing, right into the same trend. And no wonder people say that they haven't got what they say they've got. This church of the Pentecostal move ought to be so bound together with the power of almighty God until the very Life of Jesus Christ would be reflected in it.
But we want to pattern after the world. We're going to do it anyhow. See? We're going to have our way about it. But we shouldn't do it. It's wrong to do it.
The churches is just like the woman went wild. First thing you know, she becomes all right. At the beginning, when God gave birth to this Pentecostal church about forty or fifty years ago, she lived holy. She was holy. The power of God was with her. But as we go on, we begin to tally after the world. The first thing you know, we got to have a building that's so big it's got to outshine the Methodists over on the other corner. We got to have something so big, the biggest thing, and the biggest thing, and the biggest thing. It's a shame.

L-62 Lot of us get ourselves puffed up when we get... The Pentecostal brother see somebody down in a little mission, or little bitty church, and they go to a big church. "We belong to the first church, or the big church," or something like that: look down upon them.
What you need is the Holy Ghost to deflate you a little bit (that's right), let you know that the real true baptism of the Holy Ghost will make a tuxedo suit put his arms around a pair of overalls and say, "Brother." That's right. Real old-time salvation, the power of Almighty God (yes, sir), will make an old silk dress put its arms around a calico and say, "Sister, I love you." It sure will.

L-63 But we begin to go out with the world, drift with the tide. Our church has. We don't have to talk about the Methodists and Baptists no more. It's ourselves. It's in our own ranks. That's the reason the Holy Spirit cannot move. That's the reason I say that God cannot put His sanction upon any organization tonight, because the Gentiles was not taken out as a nation; they were a people out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake. God will take individuals.
Now, I think our organizations does a good work. That's all right. But you can't depend on that, say, "I'm Pentecostal, 'cause I belong to a Pentecostal organization." You're Pentecostal when you get a Pentecostal experience. I don't care if you belong to the Catholic church, you are Pentecostal. You can't organize Pentecost. Pentecost is an experience, not an organization. And that's right.

L-64 But we Pentecostal people has begin to think 'cause we have the name of Pentecost, we can go ahead and live in the world and do anything we want to. We're like climbing Nimrod's tower. It'll go to ashes. Like Adam's fig leaf apron, she'll go back. Like Siegfried line in France, Maginot line in Germany, she crushed 'cause there's no other tower, no other stand. But "The Name of the Lord is a mighty tower that the righteous run into and are safe." When you run into it, you take the Name, the Name, not just calling a Name, but the Name--and person that you are Christ-like in the life. Amen. Wonderful He is. Yes.

L-65 Church has done the same, committing spiritual fornication as the woman that would share her love from her husband to another man. That woman's not fit to be lived with. You know that. And when the church begins to share her fellowship with the world... God's a jealous God. He put Israel away because of that, and His Son will put the same thing away.
He's going to have a bride that hasn't got a wrinkle in her. Amen. She's wholly washed by the Blood of His own self. That's right. So we see where we stand, the wedding getting ready to come.


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