<TITLE>04. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Brother McKinney, we're happy tonight to see you come the way you have come; and the thing that you are trying to do, to accomplish something for Christ. And we do not disfellowship any church, any member of any church: Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, whatever it might be. We believe that the Spirit of God deals with individual.
And in every church there is Christians, throughout the whole church world, as so-called today. I believe there's Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Lutherans who love God. And the only thing that they know about Him... They live as close as they can, as close as they know how, or are taught to live.
Some people thinks all they have to do is just put their name on the book and join the church. That's all they need to do. Mother belonged to a certain church. Daddy belonged to a certain church. Well, that... See, that's all they know to do.

L-12 But Jesus told this ruler of the Jews this morning, "Except a man be borned again he cannot even see the Kingdom of God," no matter what church you belong to. And he said... Talked about the new birth, he said, "Me, an old man, to enter the mother's womb?" and so forth, be reborn?
He said, "You're a master in Israel, and don't know these things?"
See how the church world gets it so organized and twisted, till it's just a bunch of creeds. That's man-made theories set into spiritual things. And spiritual things will separate itself from it every time.
You... As the old saying is, you can't mix oil and water. It just won't mix. That's all. There's--there's no ingredients there will mix. And that's the way it is now.

L-13 We believe that the Holy Spirit calls men. The Holy Spirit ordains men. No matter we could lay hands on Brother McKinney, or any other minister hour after hour, all day long, and give him long sheets of paper he could sign, vows to creeds; it'll never do a thing to him. But let the Holy Ghost strike him once. That's it. That does it. Nobody has to tell him anything else. He's gone. See? That's all. And then, the only thing we can do is a fellowship, that we recognize our brother is in that position. God bless you, Brother McKinney. If you'll come up here forward, just a moment...
Brother Neville, Brother Collins, ministers, if you'd like to stand by, we would be glad for you to come up here just a minute. If you'll come this way and turn to the audience, Brother McKinney, right like this here.
How many knows Brother McKinney, has met him around here? How many believes him to be a godly man? Raise your hand. Certainly.

L-14 We're happy tonight, Brother McKinney, as we stand on the sides of you here, by your side and with this congregation, to know that you've accepted the--the fellowship of full Gospel preaching; that you're determined by the grace of God to hold up the standard of the Bible. Regardless of what anything's said or not, you take your stand upon God's eternal Word in there. No matter what organization tries to kick it sideways, you stand just exactly the way it's wrote, you stay right with it. That's the way.
That's the way we believe here, isn't it? We all believe it that way. May the grace of God ever be with you. Now, you pray your own prayer in the way that God will take our brother, for the evening Lights are shining, and the sun is swiftly going down. The coming of Christ is at hand. Our sincere prayer is that God will alarm this boy so with such a baptism of the Spirit, an unction will go out yonder and save tens of thousands of souls, before the coming of the Lord. God knows we need him in the ministry.
We want you to know, Brother McKinney, that this church and this group of people here... A church is a group of people that's gathered together without an organization. That don't make one person here to not be because you come here, or any other church, to make you a member. There's only one way to be a member of the Body of Christ; that's you're born into it by the Holy Ghost.


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