<TITLE>17. Par 165-173</TITLE>L-165   We don't have to ask somebody else something about this Message that we're preaching. It's wrote here in the Bible, and God proves that It's right. So why do you have to go out and say, "Now, you Catholic, what should we do about this? We'll join the--the Confederation of Churches. We'll find out. We'll get together with them brethren and see how they built their great groups." We pentecostal people don't need that. We don't need to join the World Council of Churches. We need to join the Heavenly band, the pentecostal power, be lifted up into Heavenly places. We don't need those things.

L-166   But, you see, what side would you have took, in your present character, if Dathan would have raised up and said that, and you had been standing there at that time? Would you have held onto God's message and messenger, and stayed by it, and was thoroughly vindicated to be the Truth? Or, would you have took your--your papers and went over and joined some other group? Oh, that's, see, just think about it.

L-167 When it seemed all was against God's vindicated message and messenger of that age, the chips was down on Moses. Everything was gone, looked like God had forsaken him. But they had done seen God do something. They knowed God was in it.

L-168   Now, or, in the days of Christ... We'll hurry. In the days of Christ, what side would you have took, when all the big churches and their modern theologians and teachers was against Him and His principles, and clear-cut Scripture Teaching? They was against It. When your church that you went to said, "That guy is a fanatic. Well, he never came out of our seminaries. We have no record of him going to our schools. He don't have a fellowship card. He don't pack no credentials. So, the guy is crazy. Don't have nothing to do with That," what would you have done in your present state now? Just ask it a minute. All right. What would you have done? If He...

L-169 If you'd have lived in that day, and belonged to the--the--the Sanhedrin, and that's like the--the World Council of Churches. And your church was affiliated in that, and they would have took all these things. And this Man raised up, and you seen Him do the works of God, and nobody could withstand Him. Yet, He was supposed to be "a crazy Man, out of His head." He was a...

L-170 God forgive me for this expression, but He was one of the "oddballs" of that day. See, I'm making that so you'll understand.

L-171   Why? He was Heaven-born. His character was Above. It didn't--it didn't coincide with the affiliation of this world's confederations. See? He wasn't that type of person. Where would it stand when all the theologians, all the teachers, said, 'Where did this Man come from? We don't even know where He come'?"

L-172 When He healed the blind man, they said, "Why, we don't know whence this Man come from. Give glory to God. We don't know nothing about this Man. Where did He come from? We, we don't have no record of Him. He's not on our schedule. He's not on our board of directors. He, He is nowhere. None of them knows nothing about Him. Where did He come from?"

L-173 The blind man said, "That's a strange thing, that a Man can open my eyes, and yet you don't know from whence He come. And you're supposed to be the leaders of this day." Yeah. Said, "Now, whether He's a sinner or not, I can't say that. I'm not a theologian. But one thing I do know: wherein I was blind, I can now see." That's it. That's what counts. He wanted sight. Yes.


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