<TITLE>13. Par 114-123</TITLE>L-114   Now they had him doing tricks to entertain them. And that's just about the way it's got, instead of a Holy Spirit.

L-115 That when someone raises up and gets arrogant, the Holy Spirit is obligated to God, to shut that thing up. I've seen them pack them from the meeting, paralyzed, blinded, dumb, and even die right in the meetings, and drop dead while they're trying to rebuke It. God in Heaven knows that's right. Many of you here has been in other meetings and witnessed the same thing.

L-116 There ought to be a holy Power surrounding, and in the church, that will make demons flee. Instead of that, it's become a laughingstock. What is it? The mechanics instead of the dynamics.
Now he is doing tricks.

L-117   What caused it, what was the cause of Samson's fall? He let a woman lure him away from the promise of God. That's exactly. We all know that. He had seven locks. And he was born, his birth path, was to be a Nazarite, a odd fellow, to the Lord. But, you see, he let this woman lure him until she shaved his oddness off.

L-118 And that's the same thing that's happened to the church. You are borned a peculiar people, a holy nation, a royal priesthood. But what happened? You've let the world shave off your peculiarness until you have become one of them. You had to have a denomination just like they had. You had to outshine the Baptists or the Methodists, one. And now the Assemblies is trying to outshine the United, and the United outshine the Assemblies, the church of God out this, and, oh, my, on and on, thirty or forty different organizations. See, like the dog returning to its vomit, the same thing.

L-119   Notice, the same thing has been done as it was then, let Jezebel, "the mother of harlots," Revelation 17. Remember, she was called a whore, that's a--a woman that's immoral. And woman always is a represents... The church is represented by a woman. Because, Christ, one He is coming after is a Bride. And she was "the mother of harlots." What is a immoral woman? Now, it couldn't have been man, because they were "harlots," see. Is a woman that would live untrue to her husband. And she claims that she is the mother of all churches, and she is.

L-120 And what made her a whore? Is because she committed spiritual fornications. She adopted creeds instead of her Husband's Word. Instead of becoming a rule true, mate to her husband, she took another book, of creeds. And what was she? The mother of harlots that did the same thing. Now you don't need any more explaining to that, see. You see where it's at. What was it? Organization, getting away from the Word.

L-121   Notice now what Delilah did to Samson when she kept wooing him. "Oh, you are a great man. You are powerful. But, don't deceive me, tell me wherein lieth your strength." And she loved him, and she made love to him until finally he gave in. And what did they do? The first thing she did, she had his secret taken from him.

L-122 Well, that's the same thing that happened (and you readers and Bible students) at the Nicaea Council. The old path of pentecost wanted to stay with the Word. And they adopted some pagan ideas through Constantine and them, and brought... As Ahab married Jezebel and brought in idolatry into Israel, so did the church marry into Romanism and bring in idolatry, right straight back in the church again.

L-123 Now you've got a little bunch of harlots, on the same principles, and look what's taking place now. Mother is wooing, and again she is going to shave all your rights away from you. God help that we'll never give It up; its this Word or death! The Council of Churches, putting themselves together and uniting in fellowship around Rome, exactly what the Bible said it would do.


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