<TITLE>11. Par 93-102</TITLE>L-93 God cannot change His program. God deals with individuals. There were millions in the days of Noah, but Noah was the anointed one. There was millions in the days of Elijah, never Elisha and Elijah at the same time. On down, each generation! There were two and a half million in Egypt; Moses went down. See? There were millions in the days of Jesus. Even when John the great prophet stood, when he seen this great Mighty One come on, he said, "I must decrease now, my work is over; and He will increase, God." He pointed them to the Lamb.

L-94   But, see, that went on for three hundred years, until the Nicaea Council, and then we had to have an organization. Then from that on, that fell. And every time that a message comes forth, and they organize it, it dies spiritually and never comes back again. So it's a cursed thing, to the church of God, for man to put his hand upon the moving of the Spirit. Always.

L-95 Then they take them out there and get seminary ministers, and they rub shoulders with the world, and so forth. The first thing you know, they got the women acting like the world, the men. The first thing you know, politics and bishops, and they want a straw in their hat, and they cut and push, and fuss and fight, until the Spirit of God is completely grieved away.

L-96   Some of them remember seeing Samson when the anointing was upon him. Standing in a field, with a thousand Philistines laying around him, with nothing in his hand but an old brittle jaw bone of a mule, that he had beat through inch-thick helmets of brass, knocking Philistines one way and the other, when the Spirit of Lord was upon him. And many of them had took refuge to the rock. And him standing there, saying, "If you want some, come on out!" Some of them remember seeing that.

L-97 Some of them might have whispered across, and said, "Do you remember in Gaza that night, when it was noised abroad that our enemy was in the city? And we got the army, we locked the gates. And the gates, weighing maybe six or seven tons, those big brass gates, where a whole four or five chariots abreast could move in, an army moving in the city. And we took the army, with our spears and swords, and we stood and said, 'now we've got him.' And when we awakened!" He just walked right down through them, shoving them right and left; took the gate and pulled one off, and pulled the other one off, and laid it on his shoulders, and walked up on the mountain and sat down. That's when the Spirit of the Lord was upon him. One day...

L-98   Some of them might have remembered when they seen a lion roar against him, which would have killed him in a second.

L-99 If any one knows what, how fast a lion can kill you. And with a one big blast and a roar, in a split second they kill a--a two-ton wildebeest or a buffalo; with just one of them paws, break his neck like that, or bite him like that, and he is gone. Don't even kick a hoof, kills them so instantly.

L-100 And here this man walking along, and a lion roared, and he was helpless, not even the jaw bone of a mule in his hand. But the Bible said, "The Spirit of the Lord came upon him," and he grabbed the lion and tore him apart.

L-101   But now he stands, helpless, all stripped of power. It's the same thing now, the church stands the same way. Where, once the church used to cast out devils. The church used to raise up the dead. The church used to do the things that Jesus did. Sin could not dwell among them, the Holy Spirit came in and condemned it. If a man done something secretly, and belonged to this Christian group; as soon as he come in, the Holy Spirit revealed his sin. He either repented or perished. But, you see, we don't have it no more.

L-102 And they won't receive it no more. And when it does come, they try to call it an "evil spirit," that they might receive that much more condemnation. Something has to condemn them.


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