<TITLE>15. Par 51-53</TITLE>L-51 Samson, he presumed it was all right. God was still there. That's what the church thought, when they went out here. "Well, God's still there. He's a good God. He don't care." You old-timers here, when your mammy and pappy, back yonder fifty or sixty years ago, when they come out of them organizations, and things, to be free with God, to worship God, and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, come up out of Egypt, why, if you'd have talked to them, if they'd ever went right back and done the same thing that Egyptians done, the world, they'd have laughed in your face. But they did it. They did it. "Oh, we presume it'll be all right." Don't presume. Stay with the Word.
You had to compromise. What did you have to compromise? Your great evangelical doctrine to even get in the--the World Council of churches. What are you doing? Acting just like they're doing. What's the churches, acting like they're doing. What's their schools, same thing. Even our holiness schools are getting so bad and things like that, the perversion and everything else setting in among them.
What we need is the power of God in there to call out that sin. And right here it's pouring out, say, "Here you are." That's what gifts are sent in the church.

L-52 But they teach so much theology, and science, and--and stuff, until they got the Holy Spirit grieved out. That's the reason that our "pre-mothered" girls, and so forth, is taking place. That's the reason so much sin among us. That's the reason you can't tell people. They're so smothered over with the things of the world, and the cares of the world, and the things of... "Just so we stand in good standing with the church, so we stand in good standing with the presbyters, so we stand in good standing here."
What difference does that make? Stand in good standing with God. Let the rest of them go. If they want to follow, let them follow. If they don't, let them stay where they're at. You're bound for the promised land. Like God said to Joshua (a very type of them new ones coming out), He said, "You've been on this mountain for forty years wandering around."
What'd they do out there them forty years? Did God curse them? No, He blessed them. Oh, they married wives, and growed good crops, and raised babies, and... Oh, they--they had a wonderful time. God was with them. But it still wasn't the promise.

L-53 Listen, I'm going to say something now. It might scorch you, but listen. That's exactly what Pentecost has done. She organized down like the world, but she never did get to the full promise. She did come out of Egypt. She did... God took care of her, showed her wonders, and signs, and miracles, but never to the fullness. You know it's the truth. And the old fighters died. That's exactly right.
Now, that's where we got again. We've been wandering how long? About forty years.
"Bless God, I'm a Oneness. Hallelujah." "Bless God, I'm Assembly." "Glory to God, I'm a Church of God." "We're the this kind." "We're the that kind."
You're nothing. As long as you think that, you're nothing. The Bible said when a man thinks himself something, he's nothing. He is--he is nothing that he ought to be. That's exactly right. You think yourself nothing. Come down, so God can... Empty yourself out. You're trying to fill yourself up. You empty. That's the biggest job for the church and the individual, is empty itself. That's rough. But it's good.


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