<TITLE>09. Par 64-70</TITLE>L-64 And you Pentecostals has done the same thing! That's right! And now you stand just as defeated as them, all organized up, "And us group, we believe this. And if you don't belong to us, you're going to go to hell." And what are you doing, arguing? You ain't getting nowhere. God's not showing Hisself any favor to you, 'cause you stand just as defeated as the rest of them, because you took the same route they did. Exactly!

L-65   Now he was a prisoner of the of the nation that he was raised up to destroy. Here stood that mighty man standing there, a prisoner of the very nation that he was raised up by God to destroy.

L-66 I don't want to hurt you, but I hope it helps you. And here comes the Pentecostal church that God raised up, pulling out of organization, where it got them to, and now you're a prisoner of the same clan. Now, you know that's the truth! And then let somebody say something against it, you're ready to throw them out. It's almost "blind leading the blind."

L-67   And anyone knows that the Pentecostal church, fifty years ago, was rebuking everything that would organize itself. You were brothers and sisters, and you lived the time. And you talked about the modern church and its fashion, and the women the way they acted, and the fashions that they did, and the man, and the letting down of God's Word. And God called you out of it. And you turned right back around and went right back into the same thing that God called you out of. And the very reason God raised you up to be that, you stand tied to the post of some denomination; just as defeated as Samson was, with your eyes punched out, to the Word, and everything else. That's right. It's too bad. God raised you up to defeat that thing, and you've joined up with it.

L-68   And Samson come right around and married a woman, married right into the thing that God pulled him out of. And the church, Pentecostal church, turned right back around and married into the thing that God pulled him out for. Can't deal with a group, God deals with an individual. It's always been His policy. Two man has two different ideas. God gets one man in His, that's all He has to have, one man! That's what He's trying to get today, He's trying to get you in His hand, He'll take one here and one there. It'll never be a group, so just get that out of your mind.

L-69   When you organize, right then you lose your... you lose your birthright. I want to ask any person, when did you ever see a--a--a man raise up with a message of God, and as soon as he left the earth they organized it and, as soon as they organized, it died and never did come back again. There's not one--one text of Scripture nowhere, not one bit of history, not one verse in history, that--that shows that any organization, or any group of people that ever organized, they lost their spiritual power and never come back again, and not an ounce of the living God, spiritual thermometer forty below zero all the time. That's the way it is, "Form of godliness, denying the Power thereof, from such turn away."

L-70   God, in those days, always raised up someone who would blast that thing right off its foundation, and take the little group, a church that was left, and take it on to victory. He'll do it again. He doesn't change, He's God. God ever says anything, He can never get a better idea. Remember, that's our confidence. God made a way for man to worship Him under the shed blood in Eden, He's never changed it. He can't change it. If He did, He's got a better idea than He had the first time, so He can't have it. He's always the same way. God always raised up, a nation that's got off, took a man and stood him out there and brought the Word of God to him, and condemned the whole thing. Took the man and went on. He'll never take an organization and do it. He'll take you if you'll just listen to Him, surrender yourself.


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