<TITLE>20. Par 192-199</TITLE>L-192 You Pentecostal people, what did you start out at? Did you ever read the Azusa Street, a mission; did you ever read before the General Council ever started? The Pentecostal people were known because they come out of those denominations, and separated. That's what they was. "Come out from among them," they used to preach that all the time, "be separated, saith God. Get away from them traditions of man." And what did he do? He turned right back around and went back in the same gaum you come out of. Now, you're separated; one is a church of God; and the other one, you're this one or that one, this one or that. You're separated, and fussing with one another. Break that bound!

L-193   When I first come into the ministry, I thought everything was Pentecostal was one group. I come to find out, they was broke up as bad as the Baptists. The thing I did is stand right in the middle of both of them, say, "We are brothers, that's all." Right. As long as you're firing at one another, Satan don't have to fire at you. But let that bound be broke, and spread forth your tents way out yonder, and take in every brother, then, I tell you, the great army of God will rise in the Power of Jesus Christ, go back to the Bible. And you talk about a Church for the rapturing grace, it would come to pass when we can tear down our traditions, forget all of our denominational things, and come right back on the basis of God's Word.

L-194 But we want God to save us in the condition we are. We got to meet His condition. See, we don't, we don't meet us on ours; upon His! We want God to save us in the very thing that--that He... It's polluted. Let God! Get back to the Word, and love one another. That's the only thing that I know to do.

L-195   God sends us prophets, and--and we put them to death, just exactly like Jesus said they would do. Then we find out, after a century or two, or a hundred years, or fifty years, God will send us a prophet, or a messenger, and, first thing you know, we'll criticize him and put him to death. Then after a while, after he is dead, you know, a while, the church will wake up. What will they do? They'll say, "Well, we'll build a denomination upon that." That's what happened to the Methodists, Baptists, and all the rest of you, built a denomination. And the thing of it is, after he's done dead, and his message is over, we're done living over into another place. Then you go back there, his message for that day, and you're trying to go back there and garnish his tomb, when here It's going on right here all the time. You forget the hour!

L-196   Just like men. Men is always praising God for what He did do, and praise Him for what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing. That--that, that's just the way of man. He's always done that. He thinks of what He has done, gives Him thanks; believes He is going to do something out here; but forget He is doing it, all the time, right here! He always overlooks it. That's the devil's business, for him to do it that way. Yes, sir.

L-197 Our traditions! Yes, sir. "The Messiah," they say, "is for another generation, something like that. He was back there." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever!

L-198   In His first advent, Jesus, the whole world was corrupted with politics and religions. All was crying for a Messiah. They wanted an anointed One. Israel wanted something, and Rome wanted something, and the rest of them.

L-199 It's the same thing today. We all, each one, want a politician. We want something today.


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