<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 God wants to perform His Word by His power. And when the church denies His power, how can He perform and vindicate His Word? When the church explains it away and says it's for some other day, and something, how can God, Who wants to--to fulfill His Word, and perform His Word among the people... And the people deny that He does it. Yet, they go through all the rituals. See?
Here's what's happened. God wants to perform by the Holy Ghost, and vindicate His Word; and the church wants to perform. They have to deny the Holy Ghost. They want to perform to make a big organization, and what else? To bring membership, no matter what you have to baptize sinners, drunkards, bootleggers, anything else, and take them into the body of the church. No wonder Revelation 17 said this old prostitute woman, that had a bunch of daughters, that she was full of names, or blasphemous names. Churches, or daughter-calling the names of her daughters...
People who join churches and call that "got salvation," it's a blasphemy. Now, I know the King James here said, "names of blasphemy," but you look in the Diaglott, and see if it is. It says, "Blasphemous names." There's quite a difference. She is full of those. She's got nine hundred and something different organizations in her, plenty of blasphemous names. Got away, by some man-made tradition got away from the true worship, power out of the...

L-41 "Oh, you say, "I went down there, and there's a lot of power. Brother, the whole floor was dancing in the Spirit," and not enough faith to heal a toothache. You call that power? That's not power. That's blessings. There's a lot of difference between blessings and power. God makes His blessings upon the righteous and unrighteous. The sun shines and... See? We got to get back to truth, friends. We got to come back to what God means. What He says, He means. See? And He refused their... Once hid His face from their prayers...

L-42 And look, friends. If God spared not the original tree who did that, what about the grafted tree?
We've got to be sincere. We got to do these things right. God wants to perform and bring forth the Holy Spirit to operate in His church. The church wants to perform and bring forth its creeds to make members. That's the difference.
To do the first, God wants to send the Holy Ghost, which was the Leader of the church; He should do that. And the only way the people can keep from doing it, is to reject It. And when you reject It, you take the power out of the operation. So it leaves you a dead hull. "The Word killeth; the Spirit giveth life." See? That's right.
It's like a engine setting on the track, all the coach all polished up, and fine dressed people setting in it, and no steam in the engine. What good's the thing anyhow?


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