<TITLE>08. Par 57-66</TITLE>L-57   Martin Luther, that little German priest, that packing the communion one day, threw it down on the steps, and said, "This is not the body of Jesus Christ. This is only bread that's been made back there." And he declared, that, "The just shall live by faith." He was a nut, to the Catholic church. They could have assassinated him for that, but, he was a nut, and they just let him alone. But, he become a nut, to that generation.

L-58 John Wesley, in the days of the great immoral hour of England. When, if Wesleyian revival hadn't a come on the scene... The whole world was corrupted, immorality everywhere. And the Anglican church had got so far away till there was no more revival; such Calvinistic thinking! And John Wesley come on the scene, with the--the word of sanctification, cleaning up the immoral. He became a nut.

L-59   Quoting Mr. Wesley, once, in his book. He was coming down a path, and one of the man of the England church... They all thought he was crazy, so he stood in the path. Mr. Wesley was a little bitty man. This great big fellow thought he'd just get to slap him down, so he stood in the path. Mr. Wesley walked up and said, "Pardon me, sir, would you step out of the way? I'm in a hurry."
And the Anglican said to him, "I don't step out of the way for a fool."

L-60 Mr. Wesley politely tipped his hat, walked around him; said, "I always do." So, you see, that was one who was the nut; one was for Christ; the other one was for the church.
So, you're somebody's nut, yet.

L-61   When the Pentecostals came on the scene, fifty years ago. They said, "Them people are crazy!" They were nuts, that's right, because they condemned all that corruption that was in the church ages at that time when they come on the scene.
But what has the Pentecostals done? Went right back into the vomit that they come out of, right back into the denominational corruption. You know what? It's time for another nut. Yes. It's time for another one. That's right.

L-62 Notice, a nut, before there is a nut, there is a bolt to fit that nut. And that nut is threaded to that bolt; if it don't, it's a misfit. Notice. All who was threaded, in the days of--of Noah, threaded to the Gospel message; Noah, the nut, pulled them into the ark. It depends what your threads are, what you're threaded to. If you're threaded to the world, they'll pull you. If you're threaded to the Word, It'll pull you. It depends on which you are threaded to, what nut you'll follow.

L-63 But Noah, being a nut with the Word of God, a nut to the scientific age and to the religious age that he lived in, he pulled them, that would be saved, into the ark. Amen. Those that were predestinated, the bolt that was made before the nut. The bolt must be threaded to the nut.

L-64   So, Satan, he has some bolts and nuts, too, bolts and nuts of the kingdoms of this world.
Pharaoh was just as much nut to Noah, or to Moses, as Moses was to Pharaoh. Pharaoh, with all of his scientific gimmicks, had pulled his nation to himself. Noah, by being a nut for God, pulled the church to the promised land. Depends on which way you're threaded. He pulled the church out of Egypt; as Noah pulled the church out of the world, to the ark. Moses pulled the church from Egypt, to God's promised land.

L-65 Jesus said. Now, be careful, 'cause these nuts and bolts look a whole lot a like. Just watch the thread. Matthew 24:24, He said, "It would almost deceive the very Elected."
Now, the--the American and the whole world denomination needs a nut.

L-66   The Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, they're all scattered out in this, that, and all fighting. And, after all, they're all threaded to the same bolt. So God has give them a bolt, and sending them a nut, the World Council of Churches. It'll pull them all together. That's right. It sure will. It'll pull them together, the World Council.


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