<TITLE>03. Par 15-23</TITLE>L-15   Now, back in the days of the persecution, of Rome, to the Church; a Christian make a mistake, he went into the arena and was fed to the lions, or something like that, when they found him of being a Christian for his testimony. But his soul was saved, because he was a purely, unadulterated believer in God, and gladly sealed his testimony with his blood. As the veins let loose, or holes in his body, and the blood bled out, he would scream up, with real loyal faith, and say, "Receive my spirit, Lord Jesus!"

L-16   But, now, the cunningness of the devil now, makes the people believe that they are a Christian when they're not. There is the thing. You don't have to seal... It's--it's a more cunning day than it would be, than when you had to seal your--your life away with your testimony. The devil has set every cunning trap that he can, to... He's a deceiver. And Jesus told us, in Matthew 24, how this day would be that we're living in, the most deceitful day that ever lived, "so close that it would deceive the very Elected of God if it were possible for him to deceive."

L-17   Now let us compare some Scriptures, or prophecies spoken of in the Bible, for today, and compare it with the day that we're now living in.

L-18 In Second Timothy 3, we learn this, that the prophet said, that, "It would come to pass in this days, that man would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." Compare that now, just for a moment. We won't... We'll just brief it, because we haven't that much time to go through it all like we should duly take it; but just to highlight it, so that you can see when you get home and study it. "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good." "Now the Spirit spoke expressingly that these things would be in the latter days." That's these days, the prophecy speaking to it.

L-19   Now we read, also, in Revelations... 14, Revelations 3:14, rather, the Laodicean Church Age, that how the church would be in this last age. And it would be, It says, "It would sit as a widow and have need of nothing. It--it was rich, and increased in goods, and know it not that they were poor, miserable, wretched, blind, and naked, and didn't know it." Now, remember, He is speaking to the church of this age, "wretched, blind, naked, and don't know it." That last phrase, that last Word, is what makes it so striking. They think that they are well filled with the Spirit, they're all ready. The Laodicean Church Age is the Pentecostal Church Age, 'cause it's the last church age. Luther had his message; Wesley had his message; and Pentecost had their message.

L-20   Also, It said, that, "Because you are lukewarm, neither hot or cold," the emotions of the outside, the mental conception of the Gospel; "because," He said, "you're that way, I'll spew you out of My mouth." In other words, it made Him sick to see the church in that condition.

L-21   And, remember, they spewed Him out; and He was on the outside of the church, trying to get back on the inside, in that awful Laodicean Church Age.

L-22   The god of this world today, the worshiped person of this world today, is Satan. And the people are ignorant of worshiping Satan, but it's Satan impersonating himself as the church, see, as the church. They worship Satan, thinking that they are worshiping God through the church, but it's the way Satan has done it.
"Oh," you say, "but wait a minute; we preach the Word."

L-23 Look back here at my text, tonight. Satan was the one that preached the Word to Eve, first, "God hath said," see.


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