<TITLE>12. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 Why, it's so... Them rocks laying up there of hundreds of tons, laying up there, it's so close together without mortar that you can't run a razor blade between them. And when the Headstone comes, Christ comes to His temple, it'll have to fit perfect like the rest of it. And the ministry of the Pentecostal church will have to get so perfect till it'll fit right in with the same ministry that He had here, which will take the whole thing in the rapture, being the church. Right.
Now, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, He raises a standard against it." Now, watch. In Eden He gave them His Word for their Armor, just the Word spoke. Then the enemy came in like a flood, and He took the Word and made it flesh to dwell among us, a little stronger. From up there speaking, here He is walking on earth. Glory. Going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get used to it now.

L-55 Oh, first it was the Spoken Word out yonder. Now, here It is; you could touch it; It's made flesh. And then when the enemy still come in like a flood, He poured the Word into the person, being the form of the Holy Ghost. There's your one, two, three again: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and so forth, in perfection.
Now, notice the Spoken Word. God above us, God with us, God in us: the Word above us, the Word with us, the Word in us. Hallelujah. Ye are God's, God's army, marching on: God's Spoken Word above us in a Pillar of Fire; God's manifestation of His Word in flesh; now God's Spirit, Spoken Word, in us. Amen. Oh.

L-56 Now, as it was in the days of Noah, there was giants in the land, you know. And so, Satan also has his intellectual giants in the land. That's right. Oh, my. D.D., D.D., Ph., double L, Oh, my, my, my, intellectual giants... Oh, they know all the words, all the grammar; they know--they just know it all, intellectual giants. But somehow or another they become spies. And that's the spy system. Forgive me now, intellectual brother, but it's a spy system that sits out among you to take out the sheep and say, "Why, that's holy-rollers. That isn't so."
If it's with the Word, it is so. Now, we know we've got counterfeits everywhere. That's right. It's a battle. You've got to know your enemy, and you've got to know your Armor. Your Armor is the Word. Your enemy is something that'll reason against It. "Now, I tell you, dear, you don't have to do this. Our church is the biggest church. We got more..." Uh-huh, intellectual giants... And you listen to him a few minutes, he will have you so far away from the truth, till you won't know where you're at. That's right. Oh, so deceiving, his collar turned around, you know, and walking down, and say, "Well, we are... We've been on the road a long, long time."

L-57 You know, here not long ago I see where the--the pope of Rome invited all the churches back to the beginning. I said, "Praise God. I'd like to do that."
"All of you come back to Rome, where the church begin."
I'd like for some historian, some Bible reader, or some scholar to prove to me that the church begin in Rome. The church begin in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. That's where the church started. Rome had nothing to do with it. Rome was the ruin of it when it organized.
But I'll tell you; organization begin in Rome. That's true. But the church in its birth, in its armor, begin on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem. And if the honorable pope wants to go back to that time, I'll join hands with him, and say, "Bless God. I'll put everything I can for you. I'm trying to get back to that day."


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