<TITLE>13. Par 134-143</TITLE>L-134 "Well, we're one of the richest organizations in the world, the Pentecostal move. Oh, my! We used to be down in the alley, but, brother, she is out on the front street now, the best churches, and best seminaries. And we're building one, a fifty-million-dollar one, right here now, see, and all kinds of great things. Rich!"

L-135   But it's then you forget the promise. You start towards tradition. And that's the reason, when He comes to identify Himself, the people is so totally numb, with their education and philosophy and things. They've turned the--the Commandments of God into a tradition. You stand and speak to them, and just It don't go at all; It returns. Now, if It come very highly polished, if some great bishop or somebody bring in something like that, well, they--they would receive it. But, you see, It never did come that way. If some organization would all go for It, it would be fine, but He never did do that. He never did.

L-136 If He had come with Caiaphas, and Caiaphas had said, "Now, I am the Messiah. I'm the one is suppose to come now." See, they'd say, "Oh, great holy father, you are the Messiah." But, see, that don't identify the Messiah. His--his religious rights, that didn't make him Messiah.
He was the sign the Bible said would make Him Messiah.

L-137 That's what it is again today. Not our denominations, not our creeds, but what THUS SAITH THE LORD is. Now notice.

L-138   Same now, we get ourself the same way, still we believe creeds, denomination, and worldly education, so forth. Why, you know, lot of our churches are begin to accept the idea that before a missionary can go on the field, and they have to have a psychic test by a psychiatrist, to see if their IQ is high enough to be a missionary. Now, that's contrary to the Scripture.

L-139 The Bible said that Peter was an ignorant and unlearned man. He couldn't even sign his own name. But it pleased God to give him the keys to the Kingdom, because he seen the Messiah and knowed His evidence, and fell at His feet and recognized Him as the Messiah. He believed the Word. "And thou art Peter. I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I'll build My Church." Not upon Peter, not upon Jesus, but upon his spiritual revelation of Who He was.

L-140 Same thing He did Abel. "Abel by faith offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain." Both boys offered. Both boys prayed. Both boys built an altar. Both boy worshiped the same God. See? One was accepted, the other one turned down. Because, by revelation, Abel saw it wasn't fruits or apples that brought us out of the garden of Eden. It was blood. And he offered blood, and God received it.

L-141   And look at--look at up in Moab, the great organization. Same God! There come Baalam, the bishop, out, built seven altars just like Israel had down there. Put seven clean sacrifices, bullocks, and seven rams, speaking of the Coming of Christ. Fundamental, they were both right. But look down here at this little renegade bunch floating around, won't even pass through the ground. His pastor is 'fraid they'll have some kind of a revival up there, so they wouldn't let them go through. On their road to the promised land, too, and he wouldn't let his brother, Israel, pass through. Right. He...

L-142 What Baalam failed to see was that smitten Rock and that brass serpent, the shout of the King in the camp. They fail to see that identification of God among them. Both of them had prophets; Baalam up there, and Moses down here. But Moses was identified with the Word. That's the difference. Both great preachers, but this man was identified with the Word. He wasn't mighty, of a nation, as that was. But he was identified with the Word, and had the evidence of It. Amen.

L-143 That's the real believing crew: Christ with us; Christ in us. "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Notice.


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