<TITLE>11. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 God will bless, but that blessing's got to come under certain circumstances, certain requirements that you must meet. And if you don't meet those requirements, then the blessings and promises of God is non-effect to you. God promised to meet Israel as long as they kept those solemn feasts and things with--with sacredness and sincerity. God met them. But when He--they just went to making it just like a family ritual, then God refused to do it any more; He said they stunk in His face. So it's the same thing today, that we--we--we got to get back to what's the truth of the thing.
Political strife in the churches, we stand today with around nine hundred different denominations of Christianity each one fighting the other. Well, that's--wasn't quite that bad when He come, there was only about four or five sectors of them, Pharisees, and Sadducees, and so forth. But now we got nine hundred and something. Why, it's in a worse condition, the church is, at this Christmas, than it was nineteen hundred years ago at Christmas. Was in a worse condition now. Denominational strife... What caused it all, friend, is because that politics took the place of the Holy Spirit.

L-55 The Holy Spirit wants to take the Word of God and lead the church to victory, but educational programs and politicianal programs, creeds and denominations has led it in nine hundred different directions. So the church has no, the what's called church... I don't mean the real Church; she's still waves right on. Oh, yeah. She still stays the same. But what is called church in the world, that seems to be the--the framework that puts the--holds the world together, that knits what we call today the morals and things of the world, it's polluted. Its--its fibers are rotten, and she's... The termites of selfishness and--has eat the very foundations out from under her. It certainly is true. Now, just in the condition It said it would get, II Timothy 3, "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," and so forth.

L-56 Then if we see politics in the condition that they are in the nations, and we see the churches in its corruption in its denominations, and yet we want God to come to us in those things... God will not come down in that gutter with us, under the things that we want Him to come by. He will not do it. He's holy, and He--He--He knows what's best. If we call, He answers us. And when He sends the answer, we refuse it. We want it the way we want it. And we try to get God, and try to save ourselves, by the very thing that's proven to us... Church, please hear this. The very thing that's godly proven to us, that's corrupted us, and yet were looking to that very system to save us. Back to the Word. That's what the Messiah would say.
Now, but we look to--to politics. We try for the national world; we try to save it through politics. The church wants our world saved (church world) through politics. This episode has struck the world time after time ever since the time of Moses: Same thing, politics trying to rule. And it's corrupt. There's no way a man can do it; there's nothing good in a man to begin with. That's the reason he has to die.

L-57 And when we--when we--when we see this world in this condition, seem to be falling apart in every age, when the world gets in that condition, the people prays. Oh, even the President calls for (What was it?) ten minutes or an hour or something of prayer. That won't do any good. What we need is not a praying, but a repentance, turning back, getting away from, forsaking. Come back to God. I'd rather have my consolation built upon the Word of God, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Presence of Christ, than all the security that politics or churches could ever give you. Certainly, 'cause I know That'll stand.


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