<TITLE>10. Par 59-63</TITLE>L-59   Notice, but it's what they produce that tells you the difference. "By their fruit," Jesus said, "you shall know them." "Man does not gather grapes off of a thistle," even though the thistle be right in the grapevine. That could be possible, but the fruit will tell it.
What is the fruit? The Word, for the fruit for the season. That's what it is, their teaching. The teaching of what? The teaching of the season, what time it is. Man's doctrine, denominational doctrine, but, or God's Word for the season?
Now, the time gets away so quick, that we could bear on that a long time. But I'm sure that you here present, and I'm sure you across the nation, can see what I'm trying to tell you, for we don't have too much longer to stay on it.

L-60   But you might see that the Anointing gets on the unjust, the false teachers, and causes them to do exactly what God told them not to do; but they'll do it, anyhow. Why? They cannot help it. How can a thistle be anything else but a thistle? No matter how much good rain is sprinkled on it, it's got to be a thistle. That's the reason Jesus said, "They'll be so close it would deceive the very Elected," which is in the roots, "if it were possible," but it ain't possible. A wheat can do nothing but bear wheat; that's all it can bear.

L-61   Notice. Remember, God is not the author of organization. The Devil is the author of organization. I've proved that by the Word, back and forth, and over and over; won't have to go into that this morning. We know that God never did organize people together like that, make a organization. Hundreds of years after the death of the last disciple, 'fore they ever had the first organization. It's always proved a failure. If it isn't, why ain't we together in love today, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic and all? Why ain't the works of God following us, then, every church on the same thing, the Word? Those things that separate man, brotherhood... We're farther from God than we ever was, the churches, speaking of.

L-62   Now, we're told, that, "All the old things happened for examples, for our teaching, reproofs, admonitions." That, all the old things of the Old Testament happened, foreshadowed, to see what would be in the New Testament, in our day.
Just like if you had never seen your hand, and you looked up and you seen a shadow on the wall, as my hand would be from the light, if it's got five fingers here in a shadow, when the negative; and you move your hands towards, being the positive, towards the--towards the negative, it's got to come to five fingers.
As the Bible tells us, that, "The Old Testament being a shadow, type of the new things, or the things that was to come; not the very things that is, but it is a shadow, a type of the things that is to come."

L-63   Let us go back and see if this thing ever was in any other age. Are you willing? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] So we'll know, to prove this, back and forth, by the Word; not by some man's idea, some theory.
I don't care who he is; any other man, myself or anybody else, "If he speaks not according to the law and the prophets, there is no Light in him." See? That's what the Bible said. "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be true," regardless who it is.


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