<TITLE>50. Par 561-571</TITLE>L-561   Like Lucifer did in the beginning, to the people just exactly what Lucifer said to Eve, "Surely God will receive us! We feed the poor." That's good. "Surely He will receive us. We are a great denominational. We are a beautiful church. Why, look at our great buildings! Look at our great membership. We stand in the millions. Surely God will not turn that group down."

L-562 The same thing that Cain did, brought in the pretty fruits from the ground that he had tilled, and toiled, and worked, and brought in the fruits, and rejected the humble blood of the lamb.

L-563   God have mercy, that men and women will not think I'm saying this to exalt something, or some personal revelation or something. I'm only telling you the Truth. Can't you see what they're doing? See? I speak it loud and harsh, but you got to drive a nail till it clinches, if it's going to do any good, see, till you'll see it. See?

L-564   Now, saying to the people, "Surely! You mean to tell me that our great Catholic church, that stood all this time, our great Methodist, and all? Look at our forefathers!" See? But they broke the Word of the Lord. And Eve was God's, one of His, and he... she was a by-product of Adam; and because she doubted one Word of God's Word, it did it.

L-565   And here is Lucifer at his job again, today. And, remember, the antichrist is not communism. The antichrist is so close like the real thing, till, "It'd deceive the very Elected if it was possible," Jesus said, Matthew 24, "the Elected if it was possible." Lucifer, again, Lucifer again is breaking God's unity in man, by his--his limiting the Word of God to his reasonings. What he thinks that's right, and what he thinks, he breaks the Word of God.

L-566 And the same thing he did in the days of Jesus. And Jesus said, "You, by your traditions, has made the Word of God of no effect."

L-567 And the denominations, by their organized intellectual reasonings, has made God's Word of no effect upon the people. That's right. They just can't see It. Then they say, "Where is the God of the Bible?" He's right here. He's the Bible, that's what He is.

L-568   Notice, now, Lucifer comes in the cunningness, and breaks the unity of God to man, just like he did in Eden, by great temptations of promises of self-power and exaltations. "Why, you might become a bishop if you'll just stay with us. You might come a district presbyter. Why would you go to something like That?" See, that's Pentecostal, the Catholic, and so forth; see, a great false promise, to men, to receive power outside the Word and promise of God. You receive Power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, not when you become a bishop, or a deacon, or whatever he was. See? But Lucifer is at his job again.

L-569 Does this church understand that? Raise your hand so I'll see that. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right, I won't stay with it any longer, then.
Breaking from, apart from the Word of God! See?

L-570   He did the same at Nicaea, Rome. You know what Constantine give them? You went through the Church Ages. He give... They didn't have nothing, but just Christ. And they set in little old buildings anywhere they could, on hard rock floor. You know that, if you've took the Nicaea Council and the Pre-Nicaea Council and Nicaea Fathers, and so forth, and the history of the church. They had nothing. But when they had this council and inducted some of the Roman paganism into Christianity, and put holy men and bishops, and so forth, and popes, and all this kind of nonsense, what did Constantine give them? I ask any theologian to tell me. He gave them property. He give them freedom and all that they wanted.

L-571 And they swapped the Word of God for the wisdom and culture of man! And that's the same thing Lucifer did then, he did in the garden of Eden, and they died right there. The pentecostal Church died at Nicaea, Rome, but to be resurrected in the Bride Tree in the last days.


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