<TITLE>09. Par 60-65</TITLE>L-60 The king got to a place that he thought within himself, that he got lifted up. Pride got in his heart. And that's what happens to us. If you'll pardon this expression, that's what's happened to our churches throughout the country. They're fine people in there; some of the best in the world goes to church. I think the best in the world goes to church. But the thing of it is, the--the organization system gets lifted up. That's what's happened to the--the Methodists; that's what's happened to the Baptists; that's what's happened to the Nazarene, to the Pilgrim Holiness, to the Pentecostal: lifted up, self-willed, self-centered, pride, that you can't tell nothing to. God can't find a way to get into their hearts. It's because they become so know-it-all that nobody can tell them anything. And by building themself around reasoning with brethren, they build themselves around their creed. And when they do, they leave God in the back.
That's what happens to doctors. When they get so self-centered that they don't need any help from God, that's when I don't one--want one fooling with me. When you leave God out of anything, you just--I want you to leave me out too. See? Because you must always remember God first. He got lifted up.

L-62 So many today... You take a--a family of people that'll start going to church. And God will heal the little family. He'll bless them, and give them the Holy Spirit in their lives. The little children will pray around the table; they'll pray before they go to bed. Mother and father will join hands and pray. And as long as they continue like that, they'll stay a family; but you let them get... First thing you know, they didn't have nothing, an old junk car, maybe, riding around in it, or maybe walking. Finally they'll get a good car, a better home. And the first thing you know, then they want to get to what they--the world calls, a better class to associate with. They move into a different neighborhood, and in there they find out they become influenced by the wrong influence. You must always stay where the Kingdom of God is and where the glory of God is pouring out. Stay where you can be spiritually fed day and night. Then the first thing you know, separations comes in the home, and worldliness, and they get lifted up. Uzziah did that; he got lifted up, much pride.

L-63 And now, we see what he tried to do. Now, what really got him when he got lifted up in his heart (we're told in the Bible, in Chronicles the 26th--we find out--II Chronicles 26), we find out that he went into the temple of the Lord with a censer in his hand to burn incense unto the Lord. And when he did, the minister of the temple with fourscore other ministers followed him and told him, "Don't do that; you're wrong. You are not a minister. You are a king, not a minister."
And he was wroth, and he flew up. And his temper got away from him, and he lit the censer to go anywhere. And God smote leprosy on him right there while he was standing there in his anger; and he died a leper. They had to take him out of the temple.

L-65 There's where we want a lesson now. If this man which God had blessed in his capacity... But he wasn't satisfied with that, he wanted to take somebody else's place. You can't be nothing... As Congressman Upshaw (You remember him, the one that was--was crippled for sixty-eight years and was healed in the meeting out there, you know. He was a Congressman of the United States.) He said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." So that's about true. You've got to stay in your calling, where God called you to.
Now, as long as he remained king, and--he was a blessing to the people being a king. But when he thought he was a minister, then... He thought because God had blessed him, he could be anything he wanted to be. But he was a blessing to the people as a king, but not a blessing... He become a curse upon them as he tried to take the minister's place. And we have a lot of that. Everybody wants to pack the ball. See?


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