<TITLE>05. Par 40-47</TITLE>L-40 That's what Paul was trying to say here. See, where one thing is doubted, and it brings down a certain thing of God, a certain order of God, but it won't be heir with the original order of God. You understand? See, it can't be heir.

L-41   Now that's why I am so strongly today. And I thought this would be a good time, because I don't know how much longer we'll be together, and, maybe I could, someway God would help me to show you the reason that I so firmly denounce organized religion. See? See, it cannot be heir with the original program of God, because organization is not of God. It's of man. The first church was ever organized, in all the world, was the Roman Catholic church at Nicaea, Rome. Revelation 17, said, "She was a whore, and all of her children were harlots." And a whore is a woman who doesn't live true to her husband, and a harlot is the same thing. But, you see, it became a church, anyhow. It's an organized system and it separates brotherhood. We tried to organize all the churches together. It won't work; never did work. It won't (never) work. The World Council of Churches, they're just... they're out of the program of God.

L-42   Now you say, "Who are you, a fellow standing up there without even a grammar school education?" That don't make any difference, what the education is. It's not my education I'm trying to talk about.

L-43 It's the Word of God I'm speaking about, see. And these vindications that you see in the ministry, it isn't me, it's God trying to get that to you, that it's the Truth. Would God have anything to do with a lie? Then far be it from me, serving a God that would bless a lie. It's the Truth that He blesses, the Truth that He honored.

L-44   Now, Ishmael could not be heir with Isaac, because one was slightly doubted, just slightly doubted. It was a child, it was still the seed of Abraham, but not God's perfect way for it; Ishmael. Now I could spend much time here, but I'm hoping the Holy Spirit will convey this to you in the real way that it should be. Now if they...

L-45 If Ishmael and Isaac could not be heir together because the original plan of God was substituted into a--a permissive plan of God, a permissive way that God did bless, neither can the spiritual Church today be heir with the denominational. The denominationals, God blessed them, like He did Ishmael, but the Spiritual will not be heir with the others. That's right. There will be, coming out of the church denomination (church so-called, church natural), will come a Bride of Christ, the Elected.

L-46   Now there, what troubles me at this hour, is knowing that we see all these denominations pulling into this what we know to be the... what you call the latter rain, or, the pouring out of the Spirit. Do you realize that Jesus said, that, "When that come to pass, it would be the end"? When, the foolish virgin and the wise virgin was not heirs together. For when... The foolish virgin, she was a virgin, just lacking Oil. But when she come to buy Oil, it was at that time that the Bridegroom came. And she was left out, while she was trying to buy Oil. Do you understand? I want that to soak in, real good. Now, surely I won't have to move that subject any further. Now, neither can the Spiritual and the natural be heirs together.

L-47   That's why the Rapture, the Bride, the wise virgin, the called-out, the foreordained, the elected! Why, you business man wouldn't run your office like some people try to think that God runs His program, haphazard. God knew, before the foundation of the world, who would be saved and who would not be saved. By predestination, by foreknowledge, He saw every member, put every name on the Lamb's Book of Life, before the Church ever began. Jesus come to seek and save that which was on that Book. He bought the Book of Redemption. It was lost, and He redeemed us, and all names was on that Book was redeemed when He redeemed us.


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