<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 If I belong to the Assemblies of God, I'd be Assemblies of God. If I belong to the Foursquare, I'd be Foursquare. See? But I'd always want to reach my arms out for each one (See?), get them all together. See? That--that's it, fellowship one with another. That way I've been misunderstood.
Sometimes... I had a tape got out here not long ago about serpent's seed. That caused a great conflict. Sorry those boys let that out. That was in my--in my... They are not with me no more. But sorry they let that get out. And after all, if it got out amongst churches, I understand that ministers are shepherds. They're watching their flock for every... And if they don't do it, they're not good shepherds. That's right. See, they--they got to watch their flock, and so--that the Holy Ghost has made them overseer.

L-15 There's been many things that's been spoke, different ones. Everyone has his idea about things. We have a right to that (See?), to our ideas. But that, I--I sure wouldn't let that got out. It was my own idea about what I thought in the Scriptures of--of, that it wasn't apples that Eve eat that caused the sin. And that... From that, though, it seemed to cause a sour, biting down amongst some of the brethren. I--I wish it hadn't have got out, because (See?), I'm not out here to try to hinder my brethren. I'm here to try to help my brethren. I'm working for one purpose, and I think we're all trying to do that.
And the Assemblies, and the--the Foursquare, and the Oneness, and whatever they are (See?), they're all brethren. And we ought to be trying to make one achievement: That's the Kingdom of God. See? And as many souls as I can gather with my net to send up there, I want to put it with yours, and yours, and all the rest of them. There's where we're going to, and that's where we're working for, is up there.

L-16 And you realize, fifteen years on the fields with the brethren, there's bound to be little things come up in difference of ideas. Here we are setting here this morning as much in harmony as men could be, I suppose. But let us set here a little while and begin to talk. First thing you know, there'd be some brother say something; the other might disagree with him a little bit. Now, it takes real man, real Christians, to withstand that and still feel like a brother. You see? You've got to have it in your heart. You just can't--you can't--you can't deceive by that. If you say you are, and you're not, that's what held--that's what--that's what does the hindrance. You got to be clean and clear with it. You see? And we--we would be different. Like if, take a certain--if a brother was out somewhere, and get amongst a certain class of people...

L-17 A brother was testifying to me this morning. He was called to the ministry when a little boy. And then he fell, he said. And I... And he said, but then he came back with more of a call to preach than ever before. You see what it was, when he become a Christian he got in the wrong environment. See? And that environment influenced him. See? And you just keep holding around with that kind of environment, you--it--it influences you. I hope you're reading between the lines what I'm saying. See? It influences you in that environment. And the first thing you know, you become a part of that environment. You go into it.
And just like a good clean man, that's clean and moral, and he begins to associate with a bunch of people who's not. See, you take up the spirit of that.
Everything is governed by a spirit. Nations are governed by a spirit. When I go into different nations, see the way they act and do, you can see it's the spirit of that nation.


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