<TITLE>13. Par 146-156</TITLE>L-146 And that's the first thing that an organization will do, will put your eyes out to any other fellowship but them of your own. Amen. I could say a whole lot of things right there, but I--I won't do it. But you, if you are spiritual-minded, you know what I'm talking about. It'll put your eyes out! Just you and your group; if you're a Methodist, you're only Methodist; if you're a Baptist, you're only Baptist. If you're a Presbyterian, you're... If you are Oneness, if you're Twoness, if you are Threeness, or how many more they got, see, you're just that. "The rest of them is no good."

L-147   The Baptist had a slogan in the days of Billy Graham's early days, forty-... "In '44, a million more." What did you get? A bunch of cigarette-smoking, church-joining hypocrites.

L-148 When Billy, himself, when I was at his breakfast, he said, "You know what's the matter?" Said, "Here is the example." He said, "I'll go in..." Said, "Saint Paul went into a city, he had one convert. And he went back, a year from then," and said, "that one convert produced thirty more." He said, "I'll go into a city for six weeks, and have thirty thousand decisions, and I can come back in six months and can't find thirty." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-149 Well, now, I admired the man for his courage, but I'd like to ask him one question. "Who took Paul's converts? What lazy pastor about him?" What was it? Paul stayed with him until he was thoroughly a child of God, born of the Spirit. He took him so far in Christ till he couldn't even look back.

L-150   They just walk up and maybe join the church, or even speak with tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues. I believe the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues. But I know that all that speak with tongues don't have the Holy Ghost. See? I've seen witch doctors speak in tongues, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil, speak in tongues and interpret it. That ain't no soundproof. No, no. The Life of Christ in you, the fruit bearing itself record, that's it. But we settle down on that, "If a man spoke with tongues, that's all, let him come in." Look what you got today. See? That's true, speaking in tongues, but not all the Truth.

L-151 Like the colored man eating a slice of watermelon. He said, "How did you like it, Mose?" He said, "That was good, boss, but there is surely some more of it."

L-152 If I can speak with tongues, surely there is some more of It. See? But what do we do? Just like Israel, settled on that one thing, and wandered in the wilderness now for forty years, still without the rest of It over in the promised land. That's exactly what we've done.

L-153   Samson standing there, (I must hurry), must have looked back, thought of all those things. And here he was, the very reason he was raised up, he was blinded. And there his great structure, his great organization of a human body, a mountain of flesh standing there, his great big huge muscles, but no strength.

L-154 Here we stand today. Back in when Pentecost used to rank just so many, maybe four or five hundred people across the whole nation, today it's the fastest growing church in the world. What are we getting in? A bunch of members. With our great framework, we ought to be ten thousand times stouter than we was when we started. And we're ten thousand times weaker that we was when we started, because we are building it upon a--a bottomless foundation, upon organization, something that God has cursed. And how can we build a--a church upon the chars of a Sodom and Gomorrah?

L-155 I hope you don't hate me, but you just sit still a minute and listen. See?

L-156 He can't do it. What God has cursed, He has cursed. Then, keep me away from anything that God cursed. I'm wanting what He is blessing. That's right.


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