<TITLE>11. Par 92-101</TITLE>L-92 And the church, you can't talk to them about the full Gospel and the power of God, because the god of this world has blinded them from the truths of God, and they lean to their own understanding. When women come into the church and bob off their hair, because their pastors tells them, "Oh, that's all right. That man is crazy." But the Bible said she has done wrong when she does it, God refused to answer her prayer. And some of them women make another disgrace, and try to be a preacher, then she has done a double thing. The Bible said she should not do that, none of it. But the church organization will receive it, and ordain her and send her out. They're leaning to their own understanding!

L-93   One Word of God misplaced, or misconstrued, or It not accepted, breaks the whole Chain. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

L-94 Why is it, women, you hear me preach against these things, of wearing shorts, and paints, and--and hair-do's of this here bobbed hair, and all that kind of stuff, and then every year when I come back you're still sitting in the same condition? Is because you're leaning to your own understanding instead of the Word of the Lord.

L-95 And, pastors, why don't you clean up your church? Because you're going to your denominational creed instead of the Word of the Lord. That's right. Lean not to your own understanding. Well, lean not to your own understanding, but upon the Word of the Lord.

L-96   They would not accept it, because they would not accept vindication. Jesus come with a--a Gospel, just exactly the way He said He would come. Even many times...

L-97 John was a little bit confused when he was throwed into prison, and he--he got down there... And he had preached that there was "Coming in the Messiah, Whose fan was in His hand; He would thoroughly purge His floor, and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire, and gather the wheat into the garner." The Spirit of God bringing forth, gulching out of Him like alike a fountain. And then when he seen Jesus come on the scene, the little, meek, lowly sort of a Fellow being pushed around, run here, for His life, and over there. Why, they didn't...

L-98 John couldn't understand it, so he sent some of his disciples to find out from Jesus if He really was the. One. What a dishonor to Jesus! After that prophet standing there in the water, with the Word of God, said, "I knew Him, because I seen the--the Holy Spirit, like a dove, God descending from Heaven like a dove and going into Him, and I heard a Voice from Heaven, saying, 'This is My beloved Son,'" and then John said, "Go and ask Him if really He was the One, or--or--or, 'Do we look for another?'"

L-99   Now Jesus never sent him a book on how to behave in prison, or what church he should have joined. But He Said, "Stay around a little while and watch what happens, and then go show John the things that you have seen and done," because that His works that He did vindicated Him to be the Messiah, the Son of God. "Blessed is he who is not offended in Me."

L-100 So many have become offended. So many people get offended so easy at the Word of God. It--it's contrary, they want to lean to their own understanding. They don't want to take the Word of the Lord. And they have to go just the way that--that they had been taught to go. And the way that they are taught, their church leans upon it. No matter if God promised He would--He would rain, have rain in the morning, and the church said "that's nonsense," they would believe the church instead of God. Because why? They are born of the church.

L-101 But a man that's born of God, is of the seed of God. And the seed of God is the Word of God, and he only lives by That. That's his Life.


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