<TITLE>10. Par 85-92</TITLE>L-85 I said, "It's letting off the steam." I said, "Now, I don't think that would have to be necessary," I said, "but they they've got to give vent somewhere." And I said, "Now if they would just take all that steam and could know how to direct it fundamentally, in the Word, the big regime of God would start moving on."

L-86 There is where Satan got in, to make it all mechanics and no dynamics. Back, all dynamics and no mechanics. See, we've got to put it together. We've got the power of the Holy Spirit, but we've got to come back with the Word to feed this machine. We can't feed it on creed. It won't burn it; chokes up the flues, and it will not burn it. It was made for the Word of God. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word," not just part of It, "every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

L-87   So here we stand, a Church commissioned on the last commission, the last thing that Jesus said to His Church, the last commission given, "Go ye into all the world, and make disciples of all nations. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And..." And is a conjunction, to tie your sentence together. "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink deadly things, it will not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."

L-88 So why should we have to stand in the presence of some heathen god and take a defeat? We stand again like Samson, spiritually stripped, morally broken, our churches. What has happened, they--they used to be honorable men and women, and today you--you... it's terrible. Now let's just look a few minutes at some thoughts that passed upon this. So there stood Samson, and, pardon me, here he is again today, again stripped morally, spiritually. And it's also a symbol of a fallen nation. But we're speaking of Church, because Samson was God's servant, supposed to be, and the Church is supposed to be God's servant in the earth.

L-89   Many great warriors standing there, sober up for a moment, as the liquors run off of their... probably their armors and breastplates, and their arms around their pretty, jeweled queens, as they looked out upon there, and many of them looking at this sight. A little boy holding this big bulk of a man, and no eyeballs in his sockets; they had been burnt out.

L-90 That's what the enemy does. The first thing, when he gets a hold of you, he does like he did to Samson. He shuts your eyes off from the Light of the Gospel. Now he cannot see. His eyes are gone. Long has the church lost its spiritual sight, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and every promise is true.

L-91 And as they stand there now, no eyes, a ridiculous sight, a disgrace standing beneath the fish-god, a captive of the very nation that God raised him up to destroy.

L-92   Now I'm going to come home just a minute. And here is our Pentecostal people that, fifty years ago, left that muck of denomination, God called us out to be a separated people. And we stand, today, just dozens of organizations, different, and Pentecost all fighting one another. The very thing that God called us out to defeat, it has defeated us. If one goes to this denomination, has a meeting, the rest of them don't want to cooperate. Just now and then you can find one. That's right. And denomination has always been a curse in the sight of God. It never was; God never did. That never was His plan.


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