<TITLE>17. Par 203-216</TITLE>L-203   We, like the prophet, have seen the outcome of self-exalted denominations, lose their place. I want that to soak real deep, 'cause I may never talk to you again. But, men and women, may I say this, and speak to you freely, this afternoon, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Man who are sensible thinkers, man who are not so stuffed shirt, so far away from God by traditions; that, they have seen the Pentecostal church, you seen the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian, you seen the Catholic church, lose its position in God, lose their hold on the Word, when they accepted creeds.

L-204   I--I was interviewed by a priest, not long ago, and he said to me, he said, "Why, I..." He asked me about a certain thing, and these things. He said, "Well, the Catholic church used to do that."

L-205 I said, "When? The Catholic church wasn't organized for three hundred years after the death of the last apostle."
He said, he said, "You are trying to try your case by a Bible."
I said, "That's the Word."
He said, "God is in His church."

L-206 I said, "God is in His Word. Everything else be a lie, and His true."

L-207 And he said, "Well, that's just a Book that--that the early Catholics wrote."

L-208 I said, "Then I'm an early Catholic. I believe just what It said." I don't... I said then...
He said, "Well, see, we're a greater church now."

L-209 I said, "Then where have you lost? What's happened? If the early church cast out devils, and proved Jesus alive upon the earth, by spiritual signs and wonders; and here you got thousands of intercessors, of all kinds of dead women and dead men, and everything, making intercessors. In the Bible, the first pope said, that, 'There is no other mediator between God and man but the Man Christ Jesus.'"

L-210   Losing your hold on the Word, and accepting creeds and self-exaltation by man's exhortation, we have seen them lose their hold with the great Holy Spirit. We've seen the Pentecostals do the same thing. And you see it. When they organize, they die. There is no way back; there never has been, and there never will be. God is against the thing. It's really sin. Said, in the last days He'd say, "Come out from among them, My people, that you touch not their unclean things; and I'll receive you."

L-211   Like the Uzziah, what did he try to do? He tried to take the place of an anointed office, God's anointed office. Uzziah tried to usurp that authority, because he was a great man.

L-212 We've seen these self-styled organizations crowd out everything that is God, and trying to take the office of the Church, the anointed Church. And by creeds, we've found that they're dead in unbelief, and they'll never rise again. They'll die in the leper camp with the rest of them.

L-213 See there? Man, thinking man, Scripture-believing man see that. If you're born of God, you see it. God so clearly identifying the thing, to influence you. As we've preached all week, and things, what it's to do, attract the attention. It influences you, to see where they've went and what's happened, every one of them.

L-214 If they organize another one, it'll do the same thing. But there'll be no more of them. No. They, it's over now. It's too late now.

L-215 Lose their hold, by accepting creeds and man-made doctrines. They're scared, just come and stand by It. See?

L-216   Like Uzziah trying to usurp the place of a--a anointed office, because he was a big fellow, big fellow. And among God's people there is no big fellows. We're all children of God. God gives one of us one thing to do, and another thing to do, that don't make us any better than anybody else. Just makes God require more at your hand, is all.


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