<TITLE>14. Par 136-145</TITLE>L-136 "Having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof," the Power that can deliver you from this haunt, present world system. "... Power thereof; from such turn away." Don't care what the rest of the people says, it's you as an individual before God, you've got to answer. No matter what this woman does or that woman does, or, this man does or that man does, or, this preacher says or that preacher says; it's you and God. "Having a form," after tradition, "but denying the Power thereof; from such turn away." Are we living in that day? We sure are!

L-137   Look again in the last church age. The Holy Spirit, Jesus Himself, "I Jesus sent My angel to testify of these things." And Revelation, the 3rd chapter, speaking of this church age, Jesus giving testimony of what will take place in the last days, He said, "The church will become rich, Laodicea, Lukewarm," can just jump around enough when the music's playing to shout. See? That's right. But for a testimony and a life that'll clean up, it's far from it.

L-138   I don't... I wouldn't hurt you for nothing, but I had a vision not long ago of being in the Paradise of God. I cannot but tell you the Truth. God, help us ministers to be honest in these things and tell the Truth!

L-139 See, "...?... cold," the Bible said they would be that way, so they're going to be that way. If it struck it perfect with Luther, it struck it perfect with... in the Philadelphian Age with Wesley, it's got to speak it and be perfect... It has spoke it, and it will be exactly that way in the Laodicea.

L-140 "'Rich, need of nothing!'" We can put billions of dollars in buildings, we can put everything that every--that every... worldly amusement, we can build the finest churches. That's all right, nothing, that's perfectly all right.

L-141   But I'm trying to say, then when the Message begins to swing over them, they don't want you. "You're a crackpot! You're a fanatic! You ought to have lived fifty years ago." See? Oh, you might think that, "I wouldn't have such as a pastor." It's your pastor, anyhow! Jezebel would never admit that that Elijah was her pastor, but he sure was. He certainly was. He was sent, an example, a messenger to the nation of Israel. And today the precious Holy Spirit and God's Word is a Messenger to the church, to straighten them out and to bring them back to the Word. We speak of It, but you see no one move. Uh-huh, see, we get those things so mixed up.

L-142   I heard someone, like in testimony, say, "'Lift Him up,' how do you lift Him up?" And, oh, just get little isms! Somebody said, "'Watch and pray,' that means keep one eye open when you pray, look with the other one. 'Watch and pray.'" (Why, watch means "watch for the coming of the Lord," and pray up.) See, it's just turning the thing around.

L-143 Therefore, in that, what do we do? We make up a little tradition of our own (and then if...) whether it's God constructed or not. And we go out, the first thing you know, we've got a little group following us, and pulling them away from the main body of the church. That's right. Instead of coming in and praying and solving the thing out, and let the body move on, we do those things whether it constructed or not. If you've got Truth, then stay with Truth. That's exactly right. But let it be Bible Truth first! Notice, by the... this Laodicean age.

L-144   And the prophets, or the Holy Spirit speaking through Paul, which was the Messiah. Wasn't Paul, it was Christ! "God, in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in this last day by Jesus Christ," Hebrews 1, notice, the Holy Spirit, Christ, Christ-centered Gospel, Christ-centered Word. And if It is Christ-centered, and been vindi-... God will vindicate It to be the Truth.

L-145 That's the reason you Pentecostal people receive the Holy Ghost in the faith of the Method-... face of the Methodist sanctification, because you was exactly on the Word.


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