<TITLE>11. Par 112-125</TITLE>L-112   Now we have great schools of theology. And many times when we do that... Nothing against it, certainly not. But, you see, when you got a school of theology...

L-113 Jesus said, in Saint John 4, "The time is coming, and now is, when God, being a Spirit, will be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth." Now some people have Spirit, no Truth. Others has Truth, no Spirit.

L-114 So it's just like if we had a big car, we were going somewhere in a Cadillac. And both Cadillacs was made just alike, and we pushed them out here and we... up to the tanks, and we filled them both up with gasoline. And you crank and crank on one. Well, you look out, say, "The seat is all right. The steering wheel is pretty, it's got diamond studs in it. And plush, sit... sets pretty. And you sit back and go to sleep. And, oh, a lot of things you could do, each one, but, you see, one of them... All of them has the right mechanics, but one of them has the dynamics. You see, you might know the mechanics, but it takes the dynamics to start off the mechanics, to make them work.

L-115   And that's what's the matter with the church today. We're full of theology, without any dynamics in it. That's right. See?

L-116 In other words, you've got to have the spark to the gasoline, or the gasoline is no more than... It's not even as good as water, as long as it hasn't got the spark to fire it. So, that's the way.

L-117 No matter how well we're taught, how well we'll believe, and how much of the Bible that we say is true, and we believe it all true, it's got to be the--the dynamics has got to be there, the spark, to set that Word afire and make it start rolling. It's got to have that. If you don't, the church sits still, the car sits still, you'll sit still. But no matter how much you say, "I sympathize. I believe every Word of That." You've got to have something to spark that off, to make that one hundred octane go to firing, and the big Church of God go to moving on. It's got to take the dynamics with the mechanics. Nothing wrong with the mechanics, but lacking dynamics.

L-118 And I think that's what's the matter with the church today, we're lacking that dynamical power, to press this Word and make It live for this day.

L-119   Martin Luther had the mechanics and dynamics, of his day. John Wesley had them, of his day. Pentecostal had them, with their day.

L-120 What about our day? This is another time! The Church should be fully grown now, ready to go meet Christ, with the manifestation of every blessing that He promised in the Bible, operating in that one great Body where He promised that He would meet the people and be worshiped, in this great Church of His.

L-121   But, you see, we send our kids away to school, we learn reading, writing, arithmetic, all the history of the prophets and everything. That's alright, but unless you got something behind that!

L-122 "Oh," you say, "well, I--I shouted. I spoke with tongues." That's good. I believe that, too. But that's not what I'm talking about yet. See, you'll--you'll... it'll splutter. You say, "Plank-plank, boomp-boomp," like an old car trying to start. You say, "Yeah, I believe this. I believe that, too. But, but when it comes to this, them days, oh, no. No!"

L-123 She's a hundred octane, brother, with a right kind of a generator behind her, it'll fire every Word of God to Its promise. That's right.

L-124   That's what's the matter with us today, we almost come to a stop. We want to believe this, believe that.

L-125 I say something, about This. "Well, I don't know." Well, the Bible said so! That settles it. If God said so, it's there to be done. If we... If that's what God said do, we've got to do that. Just stay there till God fires it off, and directly you start running then again, you see. If you don't, you get the plugs all smutted up. And so we need something different, we need something to fire us off.


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