<TITLE>12. Par 47-49</TITLE>L-47 Now, remember, it's been man's idea... That's the nature of man. Adam expressed that in the garden of Eden. When he was lost, instead of going back to God for grace, he tried to make hisself an apron. And ever since then he's tried to have something to do with redemption, when redemption is a free offer of grace by God, God alone. There's nothing you can do to save yourself; God saved you. No way at all you can do. But man wants something to do into it.
They accept it today. And as fifty years ago, when your mothers and fathers, you Pentecostal people tonight, when them old timers, and this one setting on the pulpit here tonight, shouted and praised God, they come out of them organizations. Why, you speak organization to them, they'd laugh in your face. They were free. Yes, sir. They shout and praised God; they spoke in tongues; they had signs and wonders and miracles. The Holy Ghost came down; they seen the literal form of Christ. They done great signs and wonders. They suffered; they bled; they went under persecutions, bitter, and everything for that cause.

L-48 And now what did they do? The same thing Israel did. They made their rashal mistake too; they wanted to organize. And what did it do to Israel? What did it do to Israel? It... They wouldn't accept the leadership of the Holy Spirit. They wouldn't accept the leadership of Moses. They tried to even raise up Korah and Dathan and so forth to--to lead them. They didn't want the leadership that God had provided for them.
And today we don't want the leadership, or the church don't, that God has provided. They try to think of some other way. They go to seminaries, educate their men, come back out with a theological experience.
Oh, I'd rather have a man preaching to me that don't know his abc's, that never was in a--a theological seminary, and have a experience right here on a broom-side--sage hill somewhere behind a stump and God fill him with the Holy Ghost. Certainly. Let him be led by the Spirit; God will make everything move right in direction towards him. He's like a magnet: can't hide him. Like a house on fire in a high wind, you can't put him out, he will burn right on. He's burning for Christ. You can't do nothing about it. Yes.

L-49 What did they do though? They did the same thing that Israel did. Oh, they had victory; they shouted; they danced; they spoke in tongues at Pentecost down here at Louisiana fifty years ago. But as Israel wanted something to do themselves, so did the Pentecostal church. They'll organize the Assemblies of God. Then after that come the other. I believe it's called the United, or something. Then along came another one, and then another one, and then another one, and then another one, till took where it's at today.
You know what you've done? The same thing Israel did. When they rejected God's provided plan for them, they begin to wander. That's what the church has done today: wandering about and taking in everything into their denomination, tobacco smokers, and unholy people married four or five times, and everything else, and let them preach, and take a hillbilly singer out yonder out of the a--a rat house out there one night and let him play on the platform the next night. Why, it's a disgrace to the church of the living God to think of such a thing. Certainly.
What did they do? It's brought blasphemous names, throwed Pentecost, the very name that should be holy; it's throwed it into a spot because they say, "He's Pentecostal. She's Pentecostal. They're Pentecostal. Look at the way they do and act." That's right. Blasphemous names... Sure, that's the truth.


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