<TITLE>20. Par 218-232</TITLE>L-218 The great battles, back before, had got the loose ends hanging out. It ought to be all wrapped up together, in this last age. Said, "Then when that sounds, an Angel come down and said, 'Time shall be no more. I'll swear by Him that lives forever and ever, time shall be no more.'"

L-219 Oh, we are here, brother, sister. We're at the time. Let's let the Holy Spirit influence us to the Word of God. Let's let God do the influencing in our hearts, and not be influenced by others. See? This ought to put us in action with reverence and humility, the Pillar of Fire vindicated among us again, like it was, bringing the children of Israel. Signs of His Coming is at hand. Oh, my! The Word, by the Word being fulfilled, we see the promise, "The last days, He would pour out His Spirit."

L-220   Look at the Presbyterian, Methodists, and Baptists. They're coming into this move. Did you know that? Listen, brethren. Do you not understand the Scriptures? The Bible said, "When the sleeping virgin come to buy Oil, that was the time that the Bridegroom came."

L-221 I notice in your Full Gospel Business Men, how you bring in "Father So-and-So," the Presbyterian; you bring in "Father So-and-So," the Catholic, and all this. By the way, they're not "Fathers." The Bible said, "Call no man Father on this earth." They are ministers. And I respect them in every respect they can be respected, but you're not to call them "Father."

L-222 And, you Business Men, I hope that editor is here this morning. Yeah. How comes you write a decoration on the back, of what your creeds are, and things like that, and be interdenomination? You better get out of that. Uh-huh. All right.

L-223   Notice, my brethren. Listen. When the Bridegroom came, the sleeping virgin woke. And the--the sound come, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh." Is that the day we're living in? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
And the sleeping virgin rose, the Methodists, and Presbyterian, Catholic, and all, come in, "Oh, give us some, this Oil. We see It."

L-224 They said, "We just got enough for ourself now. You have to tarry for It, yourself." And while they were tarrying, the Bride come.

L-225 And never in the history of the church age, never in the history of the pentecostal realm in these last fifty years, has ever been a time that the denominational world is sweeping in like it is right now. Don't you realize that this is the last call? And, yet, we just haphazardly go on like it wasn't even nothing happen. "Glory to God! I can dance in the spirit. I..." Oh, oh, oh, oh! My!

L-226 Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day, say, 'Lord, Lord, haven't I done these things?'" Sincerity! Your influence! My! Yes.

L-227   What we've seen come to pass should put us in action. We, like the prophet Isaiah, we have seen the self-exalted denominations lose their place.

L-228 What happened when the revival come with Luther? What did they do? Just a little while, and they organized, made the Lutheran organization; drawed a little line, said, "We are Lutherans. The rest of you is out." God broke it up, with John Wesley.

L-229 And then when John Wesley left; Charles, and John, and Asbury, and so, when they left off the scene, they organized it. What'd you do? Drawed a same line like the Catholic church did, made a organization.

L-230 Never was a organization till the Catholic church. It's the mother of all of it. Now, you that know history, know that's true, the Nicaea Council.

L-231 Now, we find out, that there you organized. What did you do? It died. The Methodists died right there. It's never moved, since.

L-232   Up come the Pentecostals, and what did you do? The General Assembly, known as the Assemblies of God, oh, you organized yourself. What did you do? Begin to corrode.


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