<TITLE>29. Par -</TITLE>L-48-6 There you are. Remember, after it denominates it always dies and never rises again. The first organization was the Catholic; it died immediately. 'Course it was dogma to begin with.
Out of there come the first reformation, was Luther: organized and died. Next come Wesley: organized, died. Next come Pentecost: organized and died. Presbyterian, Lutheran, all these others, and the--and the Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and all these organizations that followed along like that, every one died; Look at them. Why? They organize and that kills them.
What did they do? They take in these dogmas. You Nazarenes, a wonderful, the next church to the--the coming up of Pentecost. What was it? You believe in sanctification, but when it come down to the gifts of the Spirit, speaking in tongues, and the great powers of God, you called it devils, and there you died. That's right. Where's she at today? Dead. Oh, she's got more members, but where is she. She's a corpse.
I seen her the other night. That's right. The whole thing... Her pastor laying on top, kissing a corpse, making love to it. Said, "They ain't got no more time anyhow; this is all of it." So I'll get it to you sometime on tape. See? All right.

L-49-3 God planted His Tree to bear spiritual fruit, fruits of the Spirit. Is that right? But what did man? Man always tried to make it an artificial form. He did back there; he does now. Now, this... (Let's fire hard now, and quick.) Man has always tried to take the spiritual church and make it an artificial form.
Luther had a spiritual church. What happened? As soon as Luther died, they made it a form, artificial. What did Wesley do, John Wesley, a great man of God? Who would say John Wesley wasn't a man of God? What did he do? As soon as him, and--John and Charles died, they organized it. When she did, she died. Exactly.
Same thing down through the age every time on every one. They make artificial put-on, good works, biggest congregations, smartest people; "The celebrity of the city wants to join us."

L-49-6 That's exactly what's happening to you bunch of Pentecostals too. That's exactly right. You're--you let down the bars; you got away from the Spirit. You wanted big buildings, and finery, and everything like that, and you got dignified pastors. What'd you do? You mothers sent your boys away to some of these seminaries out here to become pastors. What did they go to teaching them? Theology and all kind of man-made stuff. And where is it today? They come back a bunch of "Rickys" and "Elvises." That's exactly right.
What have you got today? A bunch of tommyrot, a form of godliness. The Bible said that in the last days they'd have a form of godliness, but would deny the power thereof, the Life thereof. Why? The caterpillar sucked it out. The organization taken it away.

L-50-2 I Timothy 3, Paul said, "Know this in the last days that perilous times shall come. Men will be lovers of their own selves, proud, boasters, blasphemers, disobedient, unthankful, unholy, without natural affections, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, traitor, high-minded, having a form of godliness, and would deny the power thereof." Caterpillar sucked it out. Cankerworm got onto it a long time ago. We're going to bring that Tree down in the hold just in a little bit, the Lord willing.

L-50-3 The largest place. Oh, sure. "Well, you know, our church last year accumulated so much."
Oh, sure. The Catholic beat you by a million miles; uh-huh, sure did. It even got so much in Russia till they run it out and put--established communism. They did the same thing in Mexico, and they ought to do it all over the world where she's at. That's right.


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