<TITLE>30. Par 245-254</TITLE>L-245   I love the songs of the church. Paul said, in the Bible, "When I sang, I sang in the Spirit. I preach, I preach in the Spirit. When I... whatever I do, I do it all in the Name of Jesus Christ." Now, being that This has been strenuous on you... And I--I appreciate you. I come with this Message. Sometime it seems like I just hate to say It, but yet I'm--I'm duty bound, brethren. If I don't do it, I'm a hypocrite. If I don't do it, I'm a traitor to my own conscience, and my own--own faith in God's Word. I must do it, not to be different, but to be true to my calling. And I want to help you all, I want to do everything I can.

L-246 Now let's sing one of the great hymns of all times, I love it so well, I Love Him. You know, I believe if we'd just all love Him, we would do what He asked us to do. "How call ye Me, 'Lord,' and do not the things I command you to do? How do you call Me, 'Lord,' and then not do what I told you to do?"

L-247   Would you rather listen to a hireling shepherd that would say "put your name on the book, and join; take this communion, say this, and it's all right," when the Great Shepherd Himself said "except a man be borned again he cannot even see the Kingdom of Heaven"?

L-248 And look at those trained theologians of that day, trained! Holy? Clean living? We have nothing to compare with it today, the way they lived. And what did the Great Shepherd call them? Said, "You are of your father the Devil," because they didn't... They recognized the Word, but the Word of another day, not the Word of that day.

L-249 If they recognized Noah's time, that's all right, that was Noah's time; but it wouldn't work in Moses' time. And Moses' time wouldn't work in Christ's time. See? Luther's time won't work in Wesley's time. Wesley's time won't work in Pentecostal time. And Pentecost has done the same thing the rest of them did. Now, who has give me help in the days gone by? Asked you.

L-250   When a blade of grass comes up, what is it? What... when a blade of wheat comes up. Jesus said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the earth." What happens when a corn of wheat... or a wheat falls into the earth? The first thing that comes up is a little blade. It's--is not like the grain that went in. Watch nature. It's not like the grain that went in, but it's the carrier of the Life of the grain. What came...

L-251 That infidel that just wrote that famous book, The Silent God, it said, "How could there be a God who could open the Red Sea, and stand through a thousand years of dark ages and see little children eat up with lions, and people hung on crosses, and murdered in the arenas and things, and never even opened His mouth?" See, the Word is a revelation.

L-252   That wheat, when that real wheat started at the beginning, it failed God. And finally there come a Wheat, a real reflector of God, that reflected His whole Word insomuch that He was the Word. Then God gave Him a Bride at Pentecost; but that Bride dropped into the ground through the dark ages, just like the real wheat did, It dropped in. And why couldn't it act? Because it was hid beneath the earth, it had to rot before it could bring forth life.

L-253 But there come a little priest one time, by the name of Martin Luther, and he sprang forth the one Word of Truth: "The just shall live by faith," there come a blade; then another blade followed it, Zwingli, and then come Calvin and Knox and on down.

L-254 First thing you know, it changed its blade, it went into a tassel. Now, that looked a little bit more like it, but still it wasn't the real thing that went in the ground, there come Wesley along. Out of Wesley came the Methodist church, from the Methodist church came the Nazarene, United Brethren, so forth. What did it do? It fell back again and it brought forth, look like a real grain of wheat now, Pentecost.


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