<TITLE>14. Par 99-103</TITLE>L-99 My brother, sister, if you've got the key to the Kingdom, the key to the Door, the key of salvation, God help you to open the doors and let Jesus come in. Let Him give to you the things that you so--so desire.
Now, just a moment before we start to read on communion, I want to say a thing because it's on communion. And when we come to this altar, there's only one way to come; that is, if we hold the key of faith in our hands, that lets us know that our sins are forgiven. And if we don't have that key to unlock that Door, that our sins are forgiven, we have no business at the table of the Lord. Because he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. Now, that is true.

L-101 I guess all of us know that today is the National Communion Day. This is the day that all churches take communion. It's the National Communion Day over the nation. And I thought that it would be appropriate to speak a word or two on communion before we took it, while the pastor, if he will, be getting the Scriptures ready for the reading of the--the order of the Lord's table. Now, this communion... Now, I won't take but just about ten minutes.

L-102 This communion that we're fixing to take, has been the greatest dispute of any doctrine in the Bible. That was their--one of their first disputes in the early church. And today the Protestant of Episcopalian and Methodists, and many of the Protestant churches would gladly accept Catholic, Roman Catholic doctrine, if they could get over the little hump of communion. But they will agree that the priest should be married and be ministers, the Catholic church agreed on that several times in their conferences and meetings. They agree on it. And they'll agree upon different prayers, and so forth, the Protestant church will agree upon it. And the catechisms and so forth, the little altar here and there, and the Catholic church is willing to do it. But when it come to the communion, there they fell. Now, anybody that's ever read history knows that. But, 'course, to my way of thinking, they'd have a lot to get away from 'fore I--I could accept it (You see?), because it isn't Bible.

L-103 But I want you to say one thing to the Catholic church. Do you know the Catholic church in the beginning was the apostolic Pentecostal church? Certainly was. It was the first beginning of the church. And you see where they--where they got to; they kept taking away the Word and injecting a dogma.
And if the Pentecostal church should exist another hundred years, it would be farther off of the Bible than the Catholic church is today, from the way it's going now.
It took the Catholic church several hundred years to get away from it, three hundred years from the early church to the organizing of the Roman Catholic church, which they started out. And they've caught, bringing in big dignitaries and things, and they cut out this, and put in this, and taken out this and put up that, and taken down pagan idols and put up Christian statues, and so forth, and just compromising on that till they come to what they got now, the Roman Catholic church.
And the Protestant Pentecostal church from the--the fifty years that it's been in existence, and where it's fell from where it started, it'll be a worse shape than the Catholic church in a hundred years from now. That's right. That's a big word to say, but just look where they've fallen from. They went right into organization; they went right in compromising on this and that, and everything else. And there they go (See?), going right back.


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