<TITLE>11. Par 97-104</TITLE>L-97 I said, "Do you believe the Word of God is inspired, every bit of it?"
He said, "Why, certainly."

L-98 I said, "Then, He said, 'Don't add one word, or take One.' For," I said then, "I'll show you where the apostolic Blessing come on the people, by a promise of God, now you show me the promise of God and when it went off the people. See, if you can't produce that in the Word, then--then forget about it, see," I said, "because It's still going on."

L-99   He never said nothing for a few minutes. And so I said, "Well, then, brother, I'd like to ask you this. Peter introduced the apostolic message, on the Day of Pentecost. And we all know that's true, for he had the keys to the Kingdom, that Jesus had given to him. And now watch what he said. He said, 'Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.' Then if there is a place where He took it out, then what happened to Peter's words on the Day of Pentecost?" See? No, it's never ceased!
Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall never lose its Power,
Till all the ransomed Church of
God Be saved, to sin no more.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing Thy Power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

L-100 God help me to believe That and hold to It, and all of us, and stand by It, because It is the Gospel Truth! Yes, sir.

L-101   A wise man should never look at these things. And know that they won't work. They never have worked. An organized religion and an organized experience will never work in the Presence of God. It's got to come, unadulterated, from God. It has never been used by God, no time in the past that God ever used such a system. Now you, oh, you get members and things like that. But I mean the genuine seed of God, the Blessing like fell on the Day of Pentecost, it never comes by organization; it comes by a birth, being born again.

L-102   We're invited to take Israel for--for an example, which they have been. Notice, "They have forsaken Him, their provided fountain, and had hewed themselves out cisterns." Could you imagine a--a--a--a thing, when a man is at an artesian well, drinking, and then wants to make him a cistern, see, to drink out of it? Now that's what the prophet said, that's what the Word of God said. That's what God said to the prophet. "You have forsaken Me and--and have left Me, the fountain of living waters; and have hewed yourself out cisterns, which are broken, and they're leaking out."

L-103   See something. They wanted something they could control, or to show what they had done. That's the--that's the folly of organized religion. It's always trying, they've got to have something in it themself. They got to have all these systems and societies, and things, "And I belong to this now." Instead of just being humble children of God, they want something that they could show themselves. Instead of letting God do it His way, they wanted to do it their way. And that's the way the systems has got the church today. Not... Each system, one wants it this way, one wants it that way. If you're a Methodist, you must be it this way. A Baptist, this way. A Presbyterian, Catholic, whatever more, they got their systems. Nothing against that, but that ain't what I'm talking about.

L-104 Man wants his way of doing it, and God has got His way of doing it. And He said, "You are holding to your way, a broken cistern; and won't accept My way, the way of Life."


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