<TITLE>12. Par 107-117</TITLE>L-107 Could you imagine a little fish, one-half inch long, out in the middle of the sea, saying, "I better drink of this water sparingly because I might run out someday"? Could you imagine a mouse under the great garners of Egypt, saying, "I'll eat one grain a day, and allow, allowance myself, because I might run out before the next crop"? Well, that would be ridiculous.

L-108 And it's more ridiculous to think that you'd every exhaust the grace of Jesus Christ, and His Power, and His desire. He's wrote it in the Word. He's promised it to you. And we're here, this morning, looking the thing in the face.

L-109   But when you see the blessings of God trying to get to His people, and to see them got it all twisted up in such a way, He can't come into such a mess as that and bring His Word. He won't do it. That's all. The--the vessel has got to be cleaned out. When we get amongst Pentecostal people, see bobbed-haired women! Do you know it's not even common for a woman to pray with her hair cut? What happened? Your mother wouldn't have done that, at all. What happened?

L-110 You got some Ricky behind the pulpit. You got some little educated something out of a Bible school that took him farther away from God than he ever could get to God. You stumble over the simplicity of God. Right. What do you do? When you get a doctor's degree, that means you're that much farther from God. When you get a Ph.D., LL.D., or B.A. of Art, you're just that much farther from God. Educational system drives you from God.

L-111   Education has been the Devil's thought. Wisdom of the world has been the Devil's thought, from the beginning, to Eve. And on down through the age, it tried to substitute simple faith in believing God's Word. If Eve would have only believed God's Word, instead of trying to get more wisdom. Took her seminary experience there, and she broke down the bars, and she get... got away from God. And that's what our theological seminaries and things does. It takes the tradition of the--of the thing that's set behind that.

L-112   God is simple. He's so simple, He goes over the top of people. What a day we're living in! We need back to God, then.

L-113 Huh! Accept, "We think..." Yeah. And God has to accept us in that tradition? He certainly will not do it. He's never done it. God never did. I want some historian to rebuke me if it's so, tell me wherever.

L-114 A man sent on earth with a message from God, and then, as soon as he did it, he got wrapped up with a bunch of men and made an organization. And that organization went to seed. It never did rise no more. God laid it on the shelf. "It become," as the little minister said last night, "numbers, not Spirit." Did the Presbyterian rise? Did the Catholic rise from the Nicaea Council?

L-115 The first pentecostal church was at--was at pentecost. Or, I mean, the Church never begin at Rome, to you Catholics. I want somebody to show me where the Church began at Rome. The organization begin at Rome, what killed the Church. But the Church begin in Jerusalem, not in Nicaea. See? Certainly.

L-116   Where did we begin? See? You get... God will send some man with a message, and he'll get wound up with a popularity of different things, and his head puffed up, and he makes an organization. And God puts it right on the shelf like He did the Catholic church, and there we all set, which is the mother of the whole thing. And now our system is falling apart.

L-117 Oh, what a time we're living in: yeah, reject His Message, reject His promises, reject those that's sent with Truth. We want God to do the same in our days, just exactly like He--He did then. We call for it, but then we find ourself all polluted, all political, denominationals all polluted with corruption of man-made themes. And I got a bunch of stuff wrote down here that I oughtn't to read. I believe I'll just let it alone.


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