<TITLE>25. Par 181-185</TITLE>L-181 Looky here. Remember my message recently on the Bride tree (See?), how that they took Jesus? He was a Tree, the One that David saw, a Tree planted by the rivers of water, His fruit in its season, the most perfect Tree. And they cut Him down and hung Him on a man-made Roman tree for a mockery. But what did He do? Rose up again on the third day. What else did He do? He set forth a Bride Tree, a man and a woman like the trees that was in the garden of Eden, two tree. One of them the tree of life, and one the tree of death. And what did He do? He come to redeem this tree. So since He redeemed it at Calvary, He's ready to plant her now. Oh, my. I get to feeling religious when you say that. See? To restore His Bride tree, the one that should been in Eden, but she fell there because she disbelieved the Word. But here He's going to restore a tree that will believe the Word. And when she come up on the day of Pentecost, that original doctrine, that original faith, then what did Rome begin to do? Send a cankerworm, send a palmerworm. And each one took his part off the fruit, the leaves and everything, and sucked it all down.

L-182 But what did the prophet saw that, he said, "But I will restore that tree, saith the Lord." She started back in the Reformation. What did she do? Organized. God pruned her like in St. John 14, cut all the organization off of it. And she come back to Wesley, she organized: pruned her off.
"I will restore." She's still coming. Now, what does it do? In the evening time there will be not an organization. There will be a--a top. Where does the fruit ripen at first? In the top. Why? The sun hits it. And in the evening time the seeds are planted now for a evening-time Bride tree, when the Tree of Life returns back to the Bride tree. You see? And the evening Lights has come out now to water and ripen that fruit that's been on the tree that's been planted. The seeds are sowed. See? The evening time. So the evening-time evangelism will be the mark of Malachi 4, to restore the faith of the people back to the faith of the fathers. Yes, sir. Back to the building stones. Amen. Back to...

L-184 Today the leaders again are saying, "Numbers, numbers." That back there they said in Jesus' time in that dispensation. Jesus said, "You hypocrites, you Scribes, you Pharisees, you compass seas to make one proselyte, get one member, and when you bring him in, he's a twofold child more of hell than he was when he started." And today they'll--they'll spend billions of dollars and do everything that they can to make one more member of the church. And when you do, he's worse off than he was out there. You can just make a hypocrite out of him, let the men do the things, get on out in the world and laugh and make fun of the Gospel, and everything like that. It's... See?

L-185 Leaders of this day again is saying, "Numbers, numbers, numbers." That--that's all that counts today, is numbers, decisions. Now, that's such a big word today, "decisions." I wished somebody would make some deciding to serve God instead of join a church. "Make a decision, come in, put your name on the book," send a whole big bunch of people down there, would write. "What's your name?"
"John Jones."
"You accept Christ as your Saviour?"
"Yeah."
"You believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God?"
"Yeah." Satan does the same thing, same thing. The Bible said he did. He believes and trembles. Yes, sir.


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