<TITLE>21. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 And I wonder, brethren, if our churches hasn't done the same thing. In the excitement of the revival, we're trying to find who can have the biggest church, and the best dressed organization, the best dressed congregation, rather, and the biggest organization, more members. I wonder if we ain't kinda slipped off in all this without Him (See?), leaving Him back, laying... Just 'cause we got a--a better crowd, and a bigger church, and...
And that's where my fear comes for my Pentecostal church that I'm zealous of, that it'll miss that real kernel, that real Kingdom of God. Remember, brother, sister, Pentecost is not an organization. Pentecost is an experience: Methodists, Baptists, Anglican, whoever will. Pentecost, you can't organize Pentecost, 'cause that's the Holy Spirit. See? And you cannot. It's an experience that comes to all people.

L-75 And then they seen Him. They'd gone off without Him, so he said, "Here's my chance to sink them." So he begin to blow his poison breath. Whe-e-e-w. The big sea begin... Said, "I'll sink them out there in the middle of the sea now. I've got them out there where they can't help themselves." Whe-e-e-w. Wave after wave...
What's he saying today with his wave after wave? "Days of miracles are past. Whe-e-e-w. No such a thing as Divine healing. You Pentecostal people oughtn't to get started in that. You ought to join the great ecumenical churches. You ought to... You ought to go on into the World Council of Churches. Whe-e-e-w." Waves of doubt floating through the church...

L-76 And first thing their little chur--their little bark become waterlogged. The sail pole broke. The oars broke. The little... You know what it means to have a boat waterlogged. She's about ready to go to the bottom. And there it was: all hopes was gone. The little... just had to let it drive.
The waves, and the devil setting on every wave, saying, "Hah. We'll get him on the next one. We'll sink them on the next one. They are disciples of Christ. We'll sink them because they've gone off. They got scared of Him. They gone away. So now, we'll--we'll--we'll get him; we'll get them."
And there they was, going back and forth, and the devil saying, "I'll sink them next."

L-77 But you know what? When they left, He didn't leave them. He climbed the highest hill there was in the land so He could watch them, watch them where they was going. And you know, when He died back there on Calvary, He never left us. He rose again, and He ascended up, up, between Mars, Jupiter, Venus, beyond the moon, stars, the Milky White Way, went into heaven, and went way above heaven. The Bible said He's ascended. Even heaven is His footstool. Why? Farther up you get, the farther you can see. And His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He's watching right now.
When trouble come, He seen them in trouble, and the first thing you know, here He come walking to them on the sea, walking. And the sad part of this story is like this. Right here's the most saddest part. They were ready to sink. And if our churches doesn't get back to a revival again, get back to the Holy Ghost, get back, and don't keep moving in that line like the denominational churches are going, we're going to sink. That's right. We're going right back, 'cause every church that ever organized, God laid them on the shelf. And I want any historian to tell me where it ever raised again. It's never in history did it ever do it.
And I have studied the Nicene Council, Pre-Nicene Council, Nicene Fathers, Hislop's "Two Babylons," Pember's "Early Ages." Oh, there's never a place where the church ever organized, but what God laid it on the shelf, and never used it again, and took something else, and went on with it. That's right. "God is able of these stones..." There's where our trouble's laying right tonight. Tonight it's laying there.


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