<TITLE>30. Par 220-226</TITLE>L-220 Notice, the 19th chapter is the next, "After these things..." Did you notice here in the 19th chapter, "After these things..."? Watch what? After what? After the message of come out of her. After these things (Watch.) is the shout of the Bride saints with the Bridegroom, going to the marriage of the Lamb. How close are we then, brother? What's the last call? Come out of Babylon.
Now, my brethren, that's the reason I'm against it; it's unscriptural. It's unorthodox. It's been proven to be false. God is not in it; He never was; He never will be. Now, I ain't saying there's not people in these organizations, that's where the church was made up of. But as long as you stay into that system, you're a part of it.

L-222 If I stay in the United States, I'm an American. As long as I'm a citizen or a member of this United States, I'm part of it. If I go to Germany and deny my membership here or my citizenship, I take out citizenship in Germany, I'm no more an American; I'm a German. And if I go to Japan, or wherever, Russia, I become a citizen there.
And when you join up with a citizem--a system and become a citizen of that system, you're showing what you are. And in this last days, God is calling the people out of it. The Bible said so: "Come out of her, that you be not partakers with her, and I will receive you. Touch not her unclean things (See?), and I will receive you. And you'll be sons and daughters to Me, and I'll be God to you." See?

L-224 That's the reason I have spoke against the church, the--the lodge. I can't call it a church. There's only one Church; that's the Church of the Body of Christ. But these lodges that's called church, my Bible tells me that they are blasphemous names, all of them, all organizations. What are they blaspheming? "Blasphemy" is "to be contrary to," or, "speak against." When God says, "come, be born," and they say "come, join." See? When the baptisms of the Spirit is falsely took over for a wafer in the Catholic church, a handshake in the Protestant church, and an emotion in the Pentecostal church, instead of the Person of Christ coming in with all that pyramid building we had the other day.
Add to your faith, virtue, and so forth, all this in I Peter the 1st--or II Peter, I believe, the 1st chapter, where it's all added to your faith, all these things, godliness, and purity, and holiness, and everything, and then you're sealed by the Holy Ghost.

L-226 But it's just like somebody they--people claim to have this when they haven't, because they've been falsely taught. The Methodists get a funny feeling, used to, and shake a little bit, or--or dance in the Spirit. The Pentecostals speak with tongues or--or do something emotional. I believe those things, certainly, but those things without these others is no good.
As I said the other day, it's like a peacock--or a blackbird trying to put peacock feathers in himself, or a buzzard trying to use dove feathers. They never growed there; he pushed them in hisself. They're planted; they're denomination. But when God puts anything in there, it's natural. You make yourself say, "I joined church last night. I can't go no more. I can't drink no more. I can't do this. I joined church." See, you're trying to put peacock feathers in your buzzard carcass. That's right. See, see? You've got to be born again. You've got to receive Christ. And when you receive Christ, you can't receive Christ without receiving His Word, because He is the Word. And when you have a form of godliness, and deny that, then I wonder. See? And you can still belong to all the organization you want to and have a form of godliness, and still don't have it.


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