<TITLE>18. Par 131-136</TITLE>L-131 What good's a historical God if He isn't the same today? What's good is the God of Moses if He isn't the same God today? What's good of a God that could save a man on a cross that couldn't save one the same condition today? As I've always said, "What good does it do to give your canary bird good seeds and vitamins to make him have good strong wings and fine feathers, and put him in a cage?" I don't get it. Try to tell him about a God of power and things, and stick him into a organization that don't even believe in such a thing. See? It's all out. That's the reason it fails; he's dead. You can't use it. God never used it.
Just think, the Holy Spirit never did at any time use a organization, nowhere Scripture or nowhere historical. If anybody on this tape, or present, can show me where the Holy Spirit took an organization and made a move in the earth, come tell me. I want you to tell me the history book it come from. You know it's not in the Scripture, so I want you to show me the history it come from. God never used anything like that. He uses an individual, always.

L-133 All right. To be born of the Spirit... Now, to be born of the flesh, and have wisdom of the world, the wisdom will obey its fleshly teacher. To be born of the Spirit is to believe and obey the teaching of the Bible by the Holy Ghost. And a man that's born of the Spirit will obey God's Word regardless of what any tradition tells him. It's just it. You're reborned. That's the reason (You see?) to belong to an organization, put all your hopes in that...
Now, I don't say people in the organization is not born again now. I'll get to that in a few minutes, the Lord willing. Sure, they are, but they're individuals. Not the organization is borned again; the individuals in there are born again. But the organization only breaks him away from God; that's all it does: separates you. All right. Regardless of the flesh, denomination teaches the flesh, it's always contrary to the will of God.

L-135 To be borned again means be birthed from above. "Again" means "from above." I guess you know that. See? To be born again means to be birthed from above. Now, you'll see, and you can study it if you want to in the lexicon. See, means "a birth that's come from above." Because you've been born here, now to be born again you have to be born from up here, to be born again. Then that Kingdom is so much higher than this kingdom, so much greater than this kingdom, till this kingdom is foolish to that, and that's foolish to this.

L-136 As I've often said, me and my wife here not long ago went over to get some groceries along a few months ago, and we seen a woman that had on a skirt. And it was the strangest thing we'd ever seen in a long time.
Well, this morning, I don't say this sacrilegious; I heard one of the great famous organizations. And my daughter and I was listening to the radio as we went to dedicate a church. And a song they sang, some kind of a something another about so-and-so, some of that classical singing that sounds to me like women holding their breath till they're blue in the face, and then think that's singing. That's squeaking. I like good old Pentecostal singing, right from your heart. You couldn't carry a tune in a coal bucket, but yet you're singing, making a joyful noise to the Lord. I think that's spiritual. I like it. But that holding your breath till you're just blue in the face, and die away and then come back, who... You don't even know yourself what you're singing. How you expect anybody else to know? That's it. Jesus said, "We speak them things we know." That's right. That's right. What we ought to do is sing what we know in our heart, what we feel.


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