<TITLE>12. Par 102-115</TITLE>L-102   Now, they leaned onto their own understanding, but they didn't want to lean on God's Word. They knowed better. It was in the Scripture. They called it an "evil spirit," that Man. Cause why? Their priest said, "Anybody that goes to hear this Man preach, they'll be put out of the synagogue."

L-103 When a man was healed that was blind once, by Jesus. Even his parents, so happy about the healing, but they was afraid to confess that it was Jesus that did it. Yeah.
He said--he said, "Is this your son?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Who made him well?"

L-104 Said, "I--I don't know." Said, "He is of age, you ask him. He, he can talk for himself."

L-105 Because, it had been said, that, "Any man that leaned to His, Christ's understanding," instead of their understanding, "would be put out of their church." Now isn't that just the same? I ask you a pine-blank question. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's right. It's drew same thing. No matter what God does, it has to be according to their understanding, not what God vindicates to be the Truth. Now, and that man had the answer, though.
He said, "Who healed you?"
He said, "One called Jesus of Nazareth."
Said, "He is a sinner. We don't know from whence He come."

L-106 He said, "Now that's a strange thing. You're supposed to be the leaders of this hour. And here is a man opened my eyes, that hasn't been done since the world begin, and yet you say you don't know from whence He come." Oh, my!

L-107   Why? They was leaning to their own understanding instead of the Word of the Lord. Because Isaiah said, "The blind would see, the lame would leap like a hart, deserts would break forth in joy." But you see they leaned to their own understanding, not to the Word; their own system they had drawed up.

L-108 Now notice the churches of today do the same thing. They have formed a great super race of understanding, in their denominational systems. That, they have such a super understanding, they don't want nobody else to fool with it, nobody to come in unless they belong to that group.

L-109 Don't tell me; I live in Tucson, Arizona. I come down there three years ago, I met with the council of churches, and I said, "I never come to start a church. I come to fellowship with you. I come to help you. I'm a missionary, evangelist, whatever I do."
They said, "Are you coming here to start a church?"

L-110 I said, "No, sir. I come here... If I want a church, I got one in Indiana." I said, "I come here because the Lord led me here in a vision. I'm going to stay for a while now, unless He leads me away, but I never come to start a church. I come to help you brethren."

L-111   That's been three years ago. I've never been invited to one place. Why? Because there was a gettogether right after that, and said, if any man had me in their pulpit, they would ex-commute that preacher. See? Why? Leaning to their own understanding! Certainly, that is the so-called, they form their super understanding.

L-112 Unless you put your name on their book, you'll... you're lost. A minister told me that. "Oh," you say, "that was some quack." It was a Pentecostal.

L-113 Jack Moore and I sat there and listened at him in Dallas, Texas. He said he was, "Going to have to take a man off the book."
I said, "Why?"
"Cause he fellowshipped with you."
I said, "Well, take it off."
He said, "Well, he is lost then."
I said, "Lost?"
"Why," he said, "if his name is not on it!"

L-114 I said, "You mean you're a district presbyter and believe that?"
He said, "That's the truth."

L-115 I said, "Get off the phone, mister. You, you... That ain't the grace of God, that--that, see."


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