<TITLE>28. Par -</TITLE>L-47-2 Unauthoritative word that's contrary to the doctrine of the apostles. Oh, my. This is the apostolic Doctrine; this is the Bible; this is the Holy Spirit. Every word in It's true. You just believe and accept It, and don't take down on It, and watch every promise be fulfilled.
The manifestation of God's present right now. If He isn't just as much God now as He was with the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, He wouldn't be God. If He isn't the same God that fell on Pentecost that He is right here today, He isn't the same God. Then there was no resurrection. If He wasn't... If you... What good does a historical God do to you, if He isn't the same God today? What good does it do to send preachers to the seminaries, and hatch them out like incubator chickens, and go around like that, if there is no such a thing as God?

L-47-3 What are you doing, take away from the Word of God? Where's your authority at? You say, "The church." The church? There's nine hundred and sixty-nine different organizations of them. Which one of them's right?
No one would know what to do. You'd be confused. That's right. But God ain't going to judge the people by the church; He's going to judge them by Christ, and Christ is the Word. The Bible said:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us,...

L-47-4 He judged the church and the people by the Word (That's right.), the living, resurrected Word. Then if that living, resurrected Word says anything contrary to this Word here, then it's not the risen, resurrected Word, because this--He will bear witness of this Truth.
He can't say something here and something else over here. I can say something here and something over there, because I'm a man. You can too; you can get more knowledge and understanding, but not God; He's infinite. See? He has... The first decision, His first thing He says has to stand eternally. It's the same. He cannot say one thing here and something over here; He's got to say the same thing every time in order to be God.
So if the spirit is on you is of God, it'll witness this Word's the Truth, every word of It, and if It's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's what the Bible says. Yes, sir. All right.

L-48-2 Now, let's hurry and get the next stage of this little bug. First, he was a palmerworm. What did he eat off of God's Tree? Fruit. The next stage he come in (he died in that stage and come in another stage), what did he do now? He come in this time as a locust; he eat all the leaves off. That's the locust habit. Now, what's the next thing he done? He come back in another stage as a cankerworm and he went into the bark.
Now, here he comes as a lo--as a caterpillar, the fourth stage of him. Now, he's a caterpillar. What is a caterpillar? He's a sucker, sucks the Life, the Spirit, the Life; that's what he does, gets right down a hold of the pulp and goes to sucking: caterpillar. Here he is; who we going to call him? Denomination, that's that guy's right name. Why? He's a destroyer: sucks the Life.

L-48-4 Every time that God sends a move among His people, every time, and they denominate, right there they die. I want somebody that knows the history of the church that can condemn that. Show me one time that an organization ever organized, that it didn't die right there. The cankerworm got a hold of it, took it's religion away; and then the sucker come along and took the--sucked the Life right out of the Tree.
What kind of a Life was in It? Holy Spirit. What'd it do? It couldn't hold the Holy Spirit in there and then still have dogmas; the Holy Spirit wouldn't stand for it. So it takes the holy--the Life out of the Tree and gives it a dogma, makes a denomination. "We don't care what This says; our denomination says this."


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