<TITLE>19. Par 193-203</TITLE>L-193 And God told him, "Go stand yonder in the door." Those man had the censer in their hand, and you know what that censer would a-done. God opened up the earth and swallowed them up. And they had fire from the altar, in it. With the fire in the censer, as fundamental as it was, they failed to recognize the message.

L-194 God said, "I send you, Moses, down there to do this. You bring them over here."

L-195 See, they failed to recognize it. Moses was "too straight" with them. Like Elijah was, to the School of the Prophets, "too straight," stayed with the Word.

L-196 That's what's you Pentecostal people, had to separate yourself from the rest of the world, straight with the Word. Now don't fade back into the very thing that you come out of, you're drifting! Don't cut your anchor from Calvary. Hold on to God's Word, for "Upon this rock I'll build My Church," stay with It.

L-197   Now, Dathan and they thought they was... there could be other man. See, that's human intelligence trying to inject their ideas into the plan of God. That's a good one. Human intelligence trying to inject their ideas in the Word of God. It won't work! It will not work. It never has worked and it never will work.

L-198 Look at Jesus when He was standing there, said, "Which one of you can condemn Me of sin? Which one of you can show that I haven't done exactly what the Scriptures said I would do? I claim to be the Messiah. And if I don't do the works of My Father, then don't, believe Me not. But if I do the works and you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do, they testify of Me." Exactly. And they couldn't believe it, they wanted their own ways.

L-199   They may not mean to do this and be wrong. They don't mean... I don't believe man mean to do that. I find fine people out in those big denominational churches. I find fine man. But it's as the lawyer said on the radio, coming down here, "The strange thing, that how clergymen could stand in the pulpit, and see these times come, and not get the righteous indignation stirred up, of the sins of the world!" And when a lawyer has to stand up and say that! "And how the laity could use their money on all kinds of zoos and parks, and things, and not sponsor the program of missionaries, to take the world the Gospel."

L-200 When hungry missionaries, not shoes on their feet... Hallelujah. No denomination to back them up, because their stand for the Word of God. Nothing to back them up. You get them with something to back them up over there, then what have they got? A big bunch of dogma. A real, true missionary, signs following, have to depend on some washwoman to save them a few pennies. Notice, there it is.

L-201 They may not mean to do... Well, but what's the matter with them? They're blind. Jesus said so. Remember, remember, Jesus said that same thing. And it seems like, today...

L-202   Now listen, I hope I'm not critical. When you're making a Truth, don't--don't feel I'm criticizing. I'm just trying to... I--I love... And if you don't... I--I'm zealous of the Church. This, they probably is Assembly of God church, or whatever it is, or--or I--I don't know what it is. What... Don't make any difference to me. It's a church of God. That's what it is, I believe, is a church of God. Well, now, we all ought to be that, not the denomination church of God, but we got to be Christians in heart. The Church of God dwells within the walls, not the name, so forth.

L-203   Now, today it's too much on this, that membership is all that counts to the people. Now, look at the Baptist having a revival. Oh, they've had one. They had a slogan in '44, "A million more in '44." Billy Graham's messages going forth. Why, sure, it's made a great thing. The Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, it's been a great thing, but what have we got?


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