<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-35-3 So you're only joining lodges, but when you're born out of the vine... You've got a fruit; that's right. You've got a fruit, but what do you do with it? You have a form of godliness and deny the power thereof. You deny signs; you deny wonders; you deny the Holy Ghost. You deny speaking in tongues; you deny visions; you deny prophecies. You deny healing, and yet call yourself a name. No wonder the Holy Ghost said, "A power of a--groups of people full of blasphemous names (Sure), calling themselves Christians, with forms of godliness but denying the power thereof. From such turn away, for this is the sort that leads silly women laden with diverse lusts."
All kinds of organization, the church is packing so much with this kind of a society and that kind of society. What about the society of Jesus Christ? See? We have all these other things, and we burden the church down. Now, there you are.

L-36-1 You never can join a Church; you join a lodge. You're a member of a lodge, of a group of people just like a lodge is. "We believe in this; we have our orders, and we have our secrecy and so forth." You do the same when--when you join a so-called church, but you cannot join Church. You joined a lodge of members but not a Church, for you are born into that Church. And the vine itself... Now, wait a minute. Watch. And I'll close after while.
Notice. Excuse me, I--I didn't mean to say that. Watch. Look. If God tempered this Bride together with that Spirit, then It tempers the individual together with that Spirit. See? Then you are born into that Kingdom, and then the very Life that was in this Church is in that Church, and that, that, that, that. And the very Life that was in the hull, the Vine, Jesus, is in the member that He's put forth. Glory. "With the same things that I do, the works that I do, shall you do also." There's the true member of the Body of Christ; no kind of a name tacked onto it. The very works of that individual proves where he come from. There's Life testifies what he is.
"Are--are you... What member--what body do you belong to?"
"The Body of Christ."
"Well, where did you join It?"
"I didn't; I was born in It." See? "I was borned in It."
You don't have to tell them. They know what's happened. You just... "How can you light a candle and put a bushel over it?" He said. See? No, no.

L-36-4 When you're born into that Kingdom of God, then the Life, the very Life that was in Jesus... Then you're interested in souls. Then you don't have to beg people to come to the altar. You don't have to beg for somebody to come seek with those that are at the altar. The--the--the things just automatically flow, because it's sealed up in you. You are a unit of God. You're sealed with the Holy Ghost.
Now, do you know what the Holy Ghost means? It don't mean, "I jumped up and shouted, and I had a strange feeling." Them's all right. I've jumped up and shouted and had strange feelings. "I spoke in tongues." I believe the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues. Sure. "I've interpreted." Yes, sir. I believe that too. But that ain't it. That isn't what I'm talking about. There can be a leak up here somewhere. There can be a leak here in your patience. Let somebody smite you on one side of the face. Do you turn the other one? But you say, "That dirty hypocrite..." Then there's a leak somewhere sprung. We better leave that alone. All right. But you know what I mean? But when you're sealed into the Body of Christ, then you're Spirit-filled, and you're a son of God.


<A HREF="P24">Next Page</A>