<TITLE>14. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Well, what have we done? We've added members, got better churches, bigger membership. What we need is quality, not quantity. That's the trouble. That's the hunting of the Bride today. Eleazar had an awful time finding--finding quality. And then to get her ready to go was the next thing, after he found it. So that's--that's the next thing to do. We're hunting for that now. The Holy Spirit, God's servant as Eleazar was, is hunting for that quality, that genuineness, that something that won't take back on God's Word. It'll stand there, live or die, and say it's the truth. "God said so. That settles it."
Just got through preaching a week's service down here at Grass Valley on Abraham, on his seed, and so forth. How that that genuine royal seed of Abraham holds that Word. Regardless of how ridiculous it sounds or anything else, he stays right with it because he's the seed of Abraham. That's right.

L-52 Now. Notice in the Old Testament now, this boy when he was born into a family... Now, the first thing the father did after he got old enough to begin to be taught... Now, he's a son when he's born, certainly. He's the family name. He's got it. But he has no inheritance yet. He has to find out what kind of a person that's going to be before he has an inheritance.
Now, the father, to be sure that that son had the right training, hunted the very best tutor that he could find. And he never got one that would just pull punches to find favor, or something like that, say, "Well, I'll make a report on the boy, he's doing all right, because the father might lift me up a little." He's going to get somebody that's going to tell him the truth. And he...

L-53 And now, if the boy did real well, how the--the tutor'd like to walk up to the father with a good honest faith, and face, and say, "Yes, sir. Your son is doing fine." But how it would be shameful if he'd walk up there and tell his boy is a renegade; how he'd hate to do that.
Now, I wonder today, that when God has called His Pentecostal church about fifty years ago, I wonder if... And when He called the church at the beginning, what kind of a Tutor did He put over the church? He sent the Holy Spirit to be the Tutor. And today, we've twisted it around with bishops, and cardinals, and popes, and everything else with all kinds of ecclesiastical ideas and dogmas, that's added and took away from that Bible, till the people don't know what to believe. Right. They don't know which way to turn.

L-54 The poor people's like a bunch of sheep, having no shepherd, a bunch of geese without a leader. That's right. They don't know which way to fly. Everything, it's just gone every way. This one says, "This way," and this one, "This way," and, why, they don't know what to believe.
But God sent to His church the Holy Spirit. That's the Tutor. And that Tutor will tell the truth before God. Amen. He feeds and teaches the children the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." God will judge the churches, I said awhile ago, by His Word. The Bible said... I felt that come to me. The Bible said in here the--God would judge His church by Jesus Christ. That's right. And Jesus is the Word. So it's the Word made manifest. If Christ still remains Christ, He takes that Word and manifests it. Amen. There you are. It's the Word living among us, coming to life.


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