<TITLE>11. Par 95-106</TITLE>L-95 We got good churches. We build good churches, and better churches than we used to have. That's all right. There's nothing against that. I like to see the church prosper.

L-96 But, brother, I'd rather see it prosper in the power of the Lord than to prosper in the worldly things. Get back to the Gospel again! Get back to the power of God! Get back to pentecost, the... like the original was. But, you see, the trouble of it is, we don't want to take that beating.

L-97   You can say something about something, and some immoral thing the church is doing, or--or some social thing, right then they turn you down, close the doors. You can't come in, see, because they have a meeting and bar you out. They don't want you no more. They say, "You're crazy. You've lost your mind." But as long as it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, that don't matter to me what anybody says. It takes the power of Christ to change a man. It takes the power of Christ to keep a man.

L-98   And as Jesus said one time, "Consider the lilies. And yet I say unto you that Solomon, all of his glory, was not arrayed like one." Solomon, in all of his glory, was a magnificent sight. There's no doubt. He was a great thing to the world, and a great man before God. But Solomon's robe didn't have no life in it. It was a piece of material, probably sheared off of a sheep's back. But, the lily had life.

L-99 What we need today is the Life of Christ inside of us. That's what purifies; not the outward, a turned-around collar, or a degree of psychology, or something. It takes the power of the resurrected Christ to make us what we should be. God has no other plan than let the Holy Spirit rule and reign in the Church.

L-100   Oh, God, He was so much in the image of God, till Him and God became One. "I and My Father are One." Oh, my! What a living that was, for God to so live in Him, that His whole life was wrapped in God. No wonder it was a masterpiece!
Satan come to Him.

L-101 Every time God thought He had a masterpiece, Satan got in. He got in in Moses, and he broke the commandments. But when he come to this Masterpiece, that was God's own choosing. Amen. He had--He had foreordained Him. It didn't do him no good. He stayed true to God, when God looked at Him and seen He was tempted forty days in the wilderness, like Moses. Course, all those men foreshadowed Him. The law was broken. But when he come, Satan, the great tempter, and tried to tempt Him, he found out he didn't find Moses there. No, sir. He hit a five thousand watt volt that singed his wings when he jumped up against that One.

L-102   "It is written," He said. See? Adam took down. But, Jesus, the second Adam, that Masterpiece that had been come, for the Redeemer, He said, "It's written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" There He had a Masterpiece. Yes, sir. He said something else. He said, "It's also written, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.' Get thee hence, Satan." There was a Masterpiece. What did He do?

L-103 Not saying, "I'll tell my church. I'll have the presbyters to do so-and-so. The bishop will do so-and-so."

L-104 He said, "It's written." That's what He put His first Adam behind, and he fell, and Satan marred it. But he could not mar this One, no matter what he done. Insomuch, till he...

L-105 God said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him. Everything, I give everything over to Him. You, hear ye Him." They were One. They were the same One. God lived in Him, making Him God, Emmanuel, on earth. He was a perfect Lamb, oh, the perfect Masterpiece of redemption. It pleased God, then, just like Michelangelo, He was so inspired with His life. We find in...

L-106   I've got Scriptures wrote down here. Mark 9:7, if you want to read it. When... It's Mount Transfiguration. When He was up there on Mount Transfiguration, we find out that there appeared Moses, and there appeared Elijah.


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