<TITLE>09. Par 66-71</TITLE>L-66 The real Word had been vindicated, them prophets of old had vindicated the Word of God to be the Truth as they went down. If anybody ever read the Nicaea Council, or the Pre-Nicaea Council, them fifteen days of bloody politics, when them bunch of Romans down there wanted to bring in and make a denomination out of that church. Prophets came in, wrapped in sheepskin, eating herbs, and stood for that Word! But what did it do? It had to be like Cain, it had to be like Abel, one had to die. Certainly, it did. And the Word lost Its influence amongst the people, and they all voted out the true Word and took in dogmas of discrepancy of the early Catholic church. They added a pope, they added a bishop, they added this, that, the other. They taken away the real true meaning of Peter, and of--of--of Mary, and--and all the rest of it; and made idols, and made nothing but just a pagan ceremony out of so-called Christian religion. What was it? Seed of discrepancy! And organized, organized, for the first time on earth, a church. What was it? That seed of discrepancy which started sowing, something adding to, taking away.

L-67   Who ever heard, in the Bible, not eating meat on Friday? Who ever heard, in the Bible, of anything of sprinkling instead of baptizing, immersing? Who ever heard of those things, a "Hail, Mary" or something? Who ever heard of some of this rotten tommyrot of these Protestants, too? Pot can't call kettle greasy. Right! Just, guilty of the least is guilty of the whole! Who ever heard of God ever dealing in an organization? Show me one time that one ever organized and ever stayed alive. They died immediately, and never did rise again! It's time that something takes place, it's time for God to move. It killed the influence amongst the people.

L-68 Same thing has been done today. They kill the influence, say, "Oh, that bunch of holy rollers, there's nothing to them." And, why, it's discrepancy! Meet the Word face to face and see what It is, see if God interprets His Own Word. God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham. Amen.

L-69   The Word had been thoroughly vindicated by them early Christians, how God delivered them from everything, and diseases, and they had prophets, and they spoke in tongues, interpreted, and gave messages that's proved to be exactly the truth every time. But in the face of all that vindicated Word, the people voted It out, and voted a denomination. That's the mother of all organizations.

L-70 Both are fully matured now. They started seeding again. It died out, but it bloomed again in the days of Luther, as we know from the former message here on the morning of the breakfast. It bloomed out in the day of Luther. Now what did they do? Immediately after that great man died, they made an organization.

L-71 It bloomed out. And again in the days of John Wesley, when them Anglicans, with all their eternal securities and everything had bound it up into a place to what's almost universalism, and what happened? God raised up a man named John Wesley, and slayed the whole thing. And as soon as he died, him and Asbury and them, what happened? They organized, and now you got all kinds of Methodists. Then along come one or the other, Alexander Campbell, John Smith, and whatmore.


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