<TITLE>23. Par 94-98</TITLE>L-94 Now, look. Here's another thing I'd like to get to. You say, "You just started with Wesley." Did you ever think of that? I just got through with the seven church ages. Did you ever notice why I started with Wesley? Because that's where it begin at, Wesley, after the reformation. What about St. Martin, and St. Irenaeus, and all those back there who stood in protest to that Roman Catholic church in that day, to stay with the Word when they started off on dogma? What started that? What happened to them?

L-95 Didn't Joel tell you about it? What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten; what the caterpillar left, the--the--the other locust eaten. See? And that same insect, from palmerworm, to caterpillar, to locust, and so forth, is the same insect only in different stages. And that's Catholicism. What did it do? Eat up the Word. But He said, "I will restore, saith the Lord. I will restore."
How is it? Went plumb down to the stump. That's right. The Roman Catholic church eat up everything that the Bible teaches. Right. They made their own Roman dogmas out of it, even to their communion, their false Holy Ghost, false baptism, false water baptism, everything else. You'll never, never, never get back till you come back to the Life comes out of the stump, and that's the Word of God. Men to be free... It bound them up in an organization and burned them, and killed them, and fed them to lions, and everything, if they didn't join it. That's exactly right.

L-96 But He said that stump will grow again; it will put forth. What's the first thing come up? Was a tree. What's the next thing come? The leaves. What's the next thing come? The blossoms. What's the next thing come? The fruit. Luther, Wesley, the leaves; Pentecost, the blossom. Now, we're heading right into the fruit. The church is dwindling down. Amen.
"I will restore," saith the Lord. "What will I do? I will bring her back to her original condition. I will bring her back to her original doctrine. I will bring her back to the original Word. I will break every denomination in pieces. I will bring her back to My Word." How? Maybe I better shut up. Stop, boy. "I will bring her back."

L-97 What was the first organization? Ask it. Catholic church. Exactly right, that's exactly right. Or, as she's called in the Bible in Revelation 17, a whore. That's a--what is a... Oh, that kind of a woman? It's a woman that's untrue to her husband. See? That's a church that's untrue to the Word. And she was a mother of harlots. What's a harlot? The same thing. We're going to get to that, just right, just about two more minutes, three. See? All right. There you are.
She is the mother of harlots, same thing she was organizing, taking away the doctrine of the Bible, teaching her own self, teaching for doctrine--the commandments of God, and making the commandments of God of none effect by their traditions. Jesus found the same thing. Pot can't call kettle black. That's right. It's all the same. Yes, sir.

L-98 When you get away from that Word, you got away from God, you got away from the principles, you got away from the Holy Spirit, you got away from everything. The devil will give you something false. But it'll never bear the record of it. Until it's true...
Come right back to that same Messiah. That's the Spirit of God. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The same life that's in the vine is in the branch, and the branch bears the fruit of the vine: St. John 15. All right.


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