<TITLE>05. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Not long ago, talking to a priest, he said, "Well," he said... I was telling him about... He... Some woman that went to my church, I'd baptized her daughter. And she'd married into a Catholic family and wanted to be--become a Catholic. And she'd already been baptized. So he asked me about, did I baptize the girl?
And I said, "Yes."
He said, "Did you sprinkle her?"
I said, "I give her Christian baptism (See?) by immersing."
He said, "You know, the Catholic church used to do that."
I said, "When?"
He said, "Well, in Jesus Christ and the apostles."
I said, "Do you say that was the Catholic church?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Give me a history to show that the Catholic church ever existed before six hundred and six years after the death of the last apostle." I said, "Here's the Nicene Fathers, Pre-Nicene, post-Nicene, Pember's 'Two...,' Pember's 'Early Ages,' Hislop's 'Two Babylons,' Foxe's 'Book of the Martyrs,' oh, Broadbent's 'Early church,' all the sacred histories I know of laying here. Show me one page, any time," See?

L-22 He said, "You're trying to argue from a Scriptural standpoint." Said, "We don't care what--so much what that is. God is in His church. We're the church."
I said, "If you're the holy church, then why don't you stay with what the Bible said? If you say they was the ones set the church in order, and you change it."
Said, "We have rights to change the order of the church. God give us the right."
I said, "Then, if those apostles were Catholic... Say they were. And then, they did the things they did with the order they had it in, you better get back to that order again." That's right.
He said, "God is in His church, mister."
I said, "God is in His Word. Not only in His Word, but He is the Word. Right. He is the Word. God is the Word."

L-23 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made manifest, dwelled among us." Right here among us, the Word of God, the Spoken Seed, from the very garden of Eden, when "every seed shall bring forth of its kind." That's right. When Eve got perverted, and listened to a lie of the devil, and took a wrong seed in the womb of her soul to believe one word twisted...
You don't want to twist any Word of God. Say just what the Bible said. The Bible said that this--no prophecy is of any private interpretation. Why? The prophecy was given by the prophets, and the Word of the Lord came to the prophets. They interpret It just the way it was. So there's no argument with it.

L-24 Then in Revelation 21 we find out that God said--or 22, I believe it is, said, "Whosoever shall take away, or add to the prophecies of this Book..." So it's absolutely God's Word, and the world will be judged by this Word. So we don't want to twist It. We don't want to make It say anything more, or anything less. Just say it just the way it is, and believe it like that. And I've found out that it'll produce just exactly, because every seed shall bring forth of its kind.
Now, if Eve... Now, she didn't disbelieve it. She was seeking wisdom. And the devil's always trying to put a little private interpretation, a little wisdom on the Word. "It means this, or it means that." It means just exactly what God said it did, and let's just say it like that, and that settles it. That's the way I believe it, and I know that it's true, because He manifests it and proves that it's true. See?


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