<TITLE>10. Par 71-79</TITLE>L-71   Yes, the very thing that he was borned in the world and empowered to do, he stood a prisoner of that same thing. They had him doing tricks for entertainment, entertain them, tricks. Oh, my! Let a--a woman lure him from the Word of God. The Word of God was a secret, to him. It was a Nazarite gift, and he should never tell nobody that. But he got to let the lure of a woman.

L-72 And that's what's happened to us today. We've took in things in our church that wasn't Christian. There is no church that's sitting out saying there's no hypocrites in that church. The whole make up is full of hypocrites and all kinds. That's right. But I'll give you this assurance... Now, that's in a lodge. You might belong to the Methodist lodge, or the Presbyterian lodge, but you can't belong to the...

L-73   You cannot join the Church. You can join a lodge, but you can't join a Church. You are borned into It. And when you are borned into that Church, there's not a hypocrite in It. Everything in there is saintly and holy, for you are dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ, is sealed by the Holy Ghost. The Devil couldn't get you if he had to. He has to come the same route you did, and then he'd be your brother. See? So you can't do it.

L-74 But you can join the church with anything, just to get members, decisions. As I said last night, all we hear today, it seems to be the great rally today, is "More members, more members!" Charts, "We beat them!" Give them a gift because they brought somebody else in for Sunday school, proselyting. And what do you do when you got in there? What did he hear? Some little painted-up Jezebel talking about her dates the night before, or some--some little literature hanging on the wall. And you know that's right. And the Pentecostal's sliding right into it! Let somewhere else make up your literature, what you teach it.

L-75 The highest thing in the church is an elder, not a bishop, not some presbyter or something, God deals with the elder of that church. Now, he gives his church his message, and what they have need of.

L-76   Yes, let a woman lure him away from the Word of God. So have they done it today! How did they do it? "Well, now look, I'll tell you Brother So-and-so. Now, you know, them people over there, they do that, they watch this." That's not your example!

L-77 Christ is your Example. He said, "I've given you an example." Let Him be your Example.

L-78 Same--same thing to the churches. That's just exactly what they done, let Jezebel, the mother of harlots, Revelation 17, do the same thing, bring her right back into that same old swing, now blinded of spiritual things that's going on. Oh, you don't think so, but you are! Don't tell me. See? I've been crossing back and forth across this nation for the past fifteen years. Blinded! Spiritual thing, see God come and do just exactly what He said He would do in the last days, say, "Well, I tell you, I believe that might be all right, but the--the ministry behind it is not of God." How can God bring bitter and sweet water out of the same fountain? It's not there!

L-79   Yes, blinded to spiritual things and the Word of God, went back to the very same hole they was pulled from. Pentecostals was born out of organization, and man took them back in organization. Pentecost is an experience that organization can't stand, because it's a personal experience with each individual. That's right. Now look at them standing, defeated, whole group. Ministers, can't have them in their church 'less they got a seminary experience.


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