<TITLE>12. Par 107-116</TITLE>L-107   Remember, the Bible said, "In the mouth of three witnesses, let every word be established." We'll get on that, in a few minutes, on the three temptations of Jesus; the three temptations of ministers, today, where they make the fall; three temptations of the church, and where they make their fall; three temptations of an organization, where it makes its fall; and the three temptations in the individuals, and where they make their fall. Now, it all runs in three's; like justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost; Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Everything is perfected in three's.

L-108   Now notice God, in the beginning, the very first thing He give His children to live by, was His Word. Now we find that is the truth. Then in the middle of the Bible, we hear Jesus come and say that, "Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." And then in Revelation 22:18, Jesus Himself speaking again, said, "I testify of these things. If any man shall add one word to This, or take one Word of this Book out, his part will be taken from the Book of Life."

L-109 Now, see, it's not our good living; that just something goes with it. It isn't our--our church loyalty; that goes with it. But the main thing is, staying with that Word. Don't eat nothing else but that Word. Stay with It. He is that Word. Now we want to watch close now.

L-110   What is the difference in this bread, of creation, to live? Now, wheat is the bread of life, if it's not a hybrid grain, it'll... bury them and it'll come up again. It must be a good ripe grain. Defective grains won't rise. We all know that. Brother Sothmann, sitting here, a wheat raiser from Canada, knows that you don't put defective grains into the soil, to expect a crop out of it. Because, the beetle or the--or the bacteria, what it is in the grain, eats it up, eats the life out of it first.

L-111 Did you know that the very worms that will destroy you, that will eat up your body, is in them right now? Job said, "Though my skin worm destroys this body!" Put you in a coffin and seal it up, air tight; still the worms, that's in you, will eat you up.

L-112 You find meal and flour, and stuff, and set it up a little while, it gets a bug in it, seal it up. What is it? That bug is in there, to begin with. It's there, to start with.

L-113   Now, this grain must be a good grain. It must be free from fault, failures, and so forth, in it. It must be a thoroughbred grain. It can't be a hybrid grain--grain, because, when it comes up, you plant it again, and your--your wheat is done, because a hybrid grain won't grow again. It can't grow again. You take the life out of it when you hybreed it.

L-114 And that's what's happened to the churches. They've been hybrid to the world, and that's the reason that each revival coming on, and you can't have another revival behind it. Every organization that ever organized, dies on the spot and never raises again, because it organizes the world into its systems, therefore it never did. There is no history ever shows that any church, that ever organized, ever raised again. She died there. Why? You hybrid it.

L-115   Don't put a bishop over it. Let the Holy Ghost stay over it. See? The Holy Ghost was sent to keep the weeds and things out; not what the bishop thinks, or the overseers, or so forth. It takes the Holy Spirit to keep that church in its condition. He was that perfect Word, as we will see.

L-116 Adam had his choice, the Word and live, or disbelieve one Word and die.


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