<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 Then you say, "Well, Jesus healed the sick."
He is the Word. He is the Word. When you receive the Word, you receive Jesus, for He is the Word. "The Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." We believe that, don't we, every bit? We believe that Christ is God's Word made manifest; and we believe that His Bride must be the same thing. We believe that she must believe every bit of the Word and have that Word in her, because she is part of the body. She is the body where He is the head.
And when He died, and rose from the dead, and resurrected, and set on high on the--by the majesty of God on His throne, right hand of Majesty, then--and we are His delegates. And we reckon ourself dead, and buried by baptism, raised with Him, and now seated together with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That'd get us all shouting, wouldn't it? Think of that. We are, not will be; we are now. Now, we are sons of God; now we are daughters of God. Not we will be seated; now we are seated. Can't... The...

L-11 Jesus said the Scriptures has to be fulfilled. Every word has to come to pass. Today we've gotten so far away from it. We've just mixed ourselves up with creeds and so forth, until we're just gone out on a--a wild tantrum, just as the Bible said we would do. Exactly.
Adam, before he got to his wife, she was pregnated with evil seed. She took the devil's lie and tried to mix it with God's word, and it caused death. The first child was born from her had death. Every child since has had death.
Jehovah's wife when He brought her up out of Egypt and sanctified her, and started her on the road, what did she do? She done the same thing. Jehovah taken His wife over to the promised land. On the road up there she heard a false prophet by the name of Balaam, and what did she do? "Why, there's no difference in us. Let's all unite together, and be one family."

L-12 That's what the bride has done with the world: united with the world with her creeds and things, and denied the Word of God, saying, "Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit." And where's she at now? Divorced. Just... Jesus' bride had done the same thing that Jehovah's bride did, and the same thing that--that Adam's bride did. Yes, just exactly. The Bible said at the mouth of three witnesses let every word be established." There's three churches, three brides. All of them done the same thing.

L-13 But in the face of all that, there is a real Bride that God's bringing forth, and has a little bit out of each... Each time there's been a reformation, there's been so much of the Word spread forth. And each generation gets its time. Did you ever notice? There'll be a man of God come along that'll strike fire with God, and there'll be a great revival sweep the land. And what happens? Immediately after that they take that man's idea, and denominate it, and bring in creeds, and mix with it. There she dies and never rises again (That's right.), always has been, always will be, every time.

L-14 But each generation, what does it get? Its opportunity at the fresh Word of God each time, like Luther under justification; like Wesley under sanctification; the Pentecostal move under the baptism of the Holy Spirit. See? Each one gets its chance. Then what does the men do that follows those great reformers? Denominate it, organize it, mix in creeds with it, a little bit here and a little bit there. A new bunch of school scholars comes along with a bunch of psychology, just the same as Eve was trying to find some new light, mix it up with the Word of God: Death. Away went the organization, and died spiritually. That's exactly right. That's the way it's always been.


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