<TITLE>21. Par 131-138</TITLE>L-131   Notice, God's daughter, the Church, the Bride, is also a product, of God and His Word, uniting. The Holy Spirit uniting in a body of flesh, It produced the Son of God, a product of the righteousness of God. And in the last day, as we're told, "as it was in the days of Sodom," the Bride will be united by the Word of God made manifest in the flesh, the Holy Spirit sealing them into God, and sealing unbelief out, on the outside.

L-132   As I said, if the life of Beethoven was in you, you would live like Beethoven; if the life of Hitler was in you, you would live like Hitler. And when the Life of Christ is in you, you'll live like Christ, and the works of Christ you do. And that'll be. If Christ lived today, He would do exactly what the Word said He would do today. And the Word said that, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Why can't this blind ecclesiastical world see the time that they're living? See?

L-133   Eve caused all physical death, by trying to inject some heresy of Satan into the Word. And that's the same thing that happened to the church, at Nicaea, Rome, by taking dogmas instead of the Word. That's the same thing in the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, as the Light springs forth in each age and they turn It down.
That's the reason the Lutheran died when Wesley rose up. It was in another age. The Word come forth, and they had to accept It or die. That's the reason that the Pentecostals are dying now, because the age is here. The Word has been made manifest, the eagle time, the time of the Word to return back, "to restore the Faith of the fathers, back to the children again." And they're so united, they turn It down, and they ain't nothing but spiritual death. At always...

L-134   God's Body, united as His Bride, being One; Him and Christ, together, is the Spirit working in the flesh of the Church like It worked in the flesh of Jesus Christ, 'cause It's part of His Body. Not twain; but One! They are One. A husband and wife is no longer two, but one. And Christ and His Body is One. And the same Spirit was in Christ is in His Bride, in His Body, that unites Them together with all the Word. And God living in there, Himself, manifesting it.

L-135   And the antichrist, is to say, "Oh, I believe in Christ, I believe in the Gospel, I believe in these Things, but, you know..." There you are. "But, you know, the days of miracles is past. There is no such as that, see." There you are. "Oh, I don't believe you have to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ."

L-136 But the Bible said you did. Now I want some theologian to disagree with that. See? See? It's got to be. You say, "Well, baptism don't make any difference." Well, then, why was it written? Why did it make a difference to Paul? Why did it make a difference to all the rest of them? You're either baptized...
The Bible said, "You have a name that you live, and you're dead," 'cause there's not another name given under Heaven.
Why will you preach in It, pray in It, everything else, but, when you come to the pool, you reject It? Uh-huh. See?
I said to a man the other day, I said, "What if a man..."
He said, "Don't make any difference."

L-137   I said, "If a man come to you, and then said he was baptized in the name of 'the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, and the Morning Star,' would you say he's all right?"
He said, "No, sir."
I said, "Would you rebaptize him?"
"Yes."
I say, "How would you baptize?"
Said, "In the name of 'the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.'"

L-138 I said, "All right, now you did exactly, you placed... If you call those 'names,' you did the same thing he did when he said, 'Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and Morning Star,' because that's a title, and 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost' is a title. See?"
He said, "But Jesus said baptize, 'the Name.'"


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