<TITLE>09. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Now, that's what it is today. We've had about forty years of testing of Pentecost or more (See?), testing the church, seeing whether they're going to stand or not, seeing what you...
And see, there's where I get it again. Instead of holding onto the cross and to the Word and moving on, we become fashioned after the world, dropping this way, or dropping this a way, or patterned after this. As I've always spoke so hard against people in this modern trend today, the women cutting their hair and--and the men carrying on and everything, and just wearing immoral clothes and things. And I get so much criticism over that. But what is it? It's trying to save that church. It's trying to get them up here to the Word of God regardless of what the other world has to say about it. Stay with God's Word. Amen. See?

L-37 See, the thing of it is, like I was saying last night, the Pentecostals are waiting for a rushing mighty wind; but they failed to hear that still small voice. See? That's just wrong to do those things. They think as long as the wind's a rushing, all right.
But that didn't attract the prophet's attention. The rushing wind never bothered the prophet Elijah in the cave. The mighty thunders and lightnings and pouring down never attracted him at all, but what startled him was that still small voice, that's something speaking with inside. "My Word is Truth; let every man's word be a lie and Mine be true." That's what attracted the prophet. And it'll still do it. The Word of God always attracts that spiritual mind, because it is the mind of Christ in you that knows that that Word is true.

L-38 And you go through a testing time. The church goes through a testing time. Each individual goes through a testing time before it can ever possess the gate of the enemy. Abraham went through it. Christ went through it. After Christ was filled with the Holy Spirit there at the river of Jordan, He went through a testing time. After Abraham was called out, put into his land where he was to be a pilgrim, then give circumcision and God met him time after time. Yet he had to go through the time of testing. Every seed of Abraham does the same thing, Abraham and his seed, an organization, a church.

L-39 That's the reason we find our organizations falling by the wayside, is because when it come to the test... What test? God's Word. There's the test. God's Word is the test. Will we do what a bunch of men says do or will we do what God says do? That's the difference.
There He come, the days of Dwight Moody, the days of Finney, Sankey, Knox, Calvin, Spurgeon, all the rest of them, those spiritual men, their organizations followed after them. They've got up a bunch of men back there that's cut their ways into it, each one believing this and that, and adding a little here, and taking a little away there, and adding a little here until finally they made an organization out of it. And when they do, the real true believer... God comes right around and picks up some little humble person, breaks that thing to pieces. Right. Always done it, God doesn't change. Just tears that thing to pieces... Some spiritual-minded people who will stay right with that Word...


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