<TITLE>20. Par 160-166</TITLE>L-160   Then Balaam and his doctrine was just right for them. And just met their taste exactly. At the feast, look... At the Feast of the Moabites, see... Oh, what He said. Look here's how a picture that is today, how it types back. (I'm keeping you too long.) But look, notice, just for a little while, the Feast of the Moabites. See, if He couldn't get them right out there one way, Balaam did, then he organized them together. If he couldn't curse them hisself... The more he cursed, the more God blessed. Just kept...

L-161   See, that's what he done to the Pentecostals. They said a few years ago, when you all start up, "You wouldn't go nowhere. There wasn't nothing to you. You, you'd burn out. You're just a bunch of fanaticism." But every time they tried to curse you, you come right on back again. God kept revealing His Message. Down from the old Assembly, way back in the beginning, the General Council. Then He brought in when they received the Name of Jesus Christ for water baptism. Then one jumped this way, and one the other, and one went off...; organized this and that. God kept blessing.

L-162 Now, well, he seen he couldn't curse you. See? So what's he going to do? He's going to organize you. Bring you... "Oh, we're all one anyhow." See? "We all believe in the same God." So that's just what Balaam did. And didn't Jude warn us of this? They errored in the way of... in the doctrine of Balaam and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. Doesn't Jude, the foster brother of Jesus, warn us of this in the Bible? They're like Cain, from the beginning, the hireling. The one that went to church and built churches and--and built a altar and sacrificed. They error in the way of Cain. They run in the way of Balaam, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. Jude lays the whole thing out just like we're doing it this morning, here before you, like we've been doing it. The whole thing lays there.

L-163   They perished in the gainsaying of Korah. Just think of that, how bad that was. Just to think of what that Korah... See, he said, "Now, we'll all go up to a feast. We're all one." The Moabites believed in God. That was Lot's daughter's kids. See? "We all believe in one God." Fundamentally, they were perfectly right. Watch Balaam up there, just as fundamental as any good Baptist or Presbyterian today. He come up there and there was Israel, that undenominated... They was a nation. Israel wasn't a nation. It was a people at that time. They didn't want to go God's way, after while. They wanted to be like the rest the nations. That's when they fail. But as long as they want to stay with God, all right.

L-164   Balaam come out, he looked down, said, "Well, my! I know one of them ministers married another man's wife." All these other things, oh sure, they had plenty. He forgot to hear the shout of the--of the King in the camp. He never seen that smitten Rock, and that brass serpent hanging there for an atonement. He didn't realize that they wasn't hooked up to any organization. They was hooked up to God's Covenant, and were walking in that. See? And Balaam said, fundamentally, "Build me seven altars." That's what Jehovah required. That's what Jehovah got on both sides. "All right, put seven calves upon it." That's what they was doing down there in that camp. "Put me seven rams on it because there's coming a Messiah someday." All right.

L-165   See, fundamentally, they were both right; fundamentally. See? But one day when he seen he couldn't get him on that, he said, "If we just organize ourself together then." And that's where they made their mistake.

L-166 And that's just exactly where Pentecost made its mistake; when it organized back like the rest of the churches. I'm not your enemy. I'm your brother. Some of these days you're going to find out that that's the truth. May take a little while yet, few turns of the sun, but someday you'll see that that's right.


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