Going To Church
E-76 Let me tell you something here today,
Christians: When Jesus leaves your home, sickness will be there, don't you
worry. Trouble's on it's road when you drive Jesus away. When you put a deck of
cards in there, instead of a prayer--a prayer closet, put a card table, all
right, trouble's on its road. That's right. When you take some of these old
love story magazines and put it in the place of the Bible, trouble's on its
road. Don't you worry about that. Yes, sir. When you quit going to church and blow up because the preacher told you
it wasn't ladylike to wear shorts, you're on your road; don't worry, trouble is
on its road. Just keep on, you'll find out.
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This case, they hadn't drove Him away, but His ministry, He went away
because the Father give Him a vision to go. Trouble come in. Lazarus got sick.
We're told by historians that--that Lazarus had something wrong with his lungs.
Doctors could do him no good. And they sent for Jesus to come pray for him. You
think He come? Huh-uh, He went right on.
Well, they
sent again. He didn't come; He went right on. Well, if that'd been you,
brother, you'd have went from the Methodist to the Baptist, took your letter
over there. "I won't fool with that old pastor any more." You'd went
from the Pentecost to the Nazarene. "I--I ain't going to fool with them
old people no more." That's the reason God can't do nothing for you.
That's right.
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E-17 Oh their morals there are so far beyond
ours, till ours is not even in the shadow of them. That's right. We have the
biggest divorce rooted in the world is in America. Said, "You want to
teach us how to divorce our wives and call it Christianity? How to have whiskey
stores on every corner, get drunk and carry on? And you call that Christianity?
Well, we're better off as Mohammedans." Morally speaking, they are,
morally speaking.
When
Christianity is the most cleanest, holiest thing there is this side of heaven.
But its representatives is what's breaking it up. That's true. It's what those
who represent it. We call ourself a Christian nation. We're no more Christian
nation than any of the rest of them are. Right. We call ourselves that, but a Christian is an individual experience, a man
borned again of the Spirit of God makes a Christian, not a cold confession,
going to church and living... Your fruits tells what you are. Is that
right? It's true.
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79 Notice, "I will give unto him. He that
overcomes, I'll give him the Bread of Life." He said that before one of
the churches. "And he will not thirst no more, neither shall he hunger no
more. He will never thirst no more." If a man ever once... Here it is; get
the jacket tightened up tight. If a man or a woman ever truly once receives the
Holy Spirit, you'll never be able to move him no more. He knows where he's at.
You may come with isms and everything. He will walk right straight through
them. "He will never thirst no more." He knows just exactly Who his
Maker is, never be confused. Don't bother him; he moves right on.
"I will
give to him of the Bread of Life, and he will never hunger no more, and neither
will he thirst any more." See? "And the Tree which is in the midst of
the paradise of God, and he will eat from (See?), the Tree." Which, the
Tree was Christ Jesus. See? And Christ Jesus, being dead, He come back in the
form of the Holy Spirit. So He's here, and the manna that's eaten in the
Church.
Notice,
behold that, the 6th verse.
And he has made us priests and kings unto God.
Spiritual
priesthood, royal nation, spiritual offering... What is it now? Spiritual
sacrifices, that is (quoting the Scripture), that is, the fruits of our lips,
giving praise to His Name. Now, what kind of a what? A spiritual sacrifice.
*WHEN A LITTLE
CONFUSION COMES IN THE CHURCH, YOU DON'T RUN OVER TO ONE SIDE AND POUT NOW… BUT
YOU'RE A PRIEST. IT'S YOUR DUTY. YOU'VE GOT TO BE THERE. (Hebrews 10:25)
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Now, now we might as well get started right here, notice, a good place
to start from.
When a little confusion comes in the
church, you don't run over to one side and pout now. If you are, you sure ain't
a priest. See, you pray through: spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of our lips
giving praise to His Name. See what I mean?
"Well," you say, "I
just don't feel like going to church." But
you're a priest. It's your duty. You've got to be there.
"Well,
I just don't feel like taking a part in the service." You're a priest,
making a sacrifice, a spiritual sacrifice, not giving somebody some hand-me-down,
as they call it today. That's all
good, I have nothing against it. Not going to get somebody to come to church;
that's all good; I have nothing against it. But it's you, you making the
spiritual sacrifice, the fruits of your lips giving praise to His Name.
When you see the time coming that
everybody blaspheming and saying these things, and doing things wrong, what do
you do, walk away? You're supposed
to stand there with a spiritual sacrifice, saying, "The Blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses from all sin, makes me a new creature in Christ Jesus."
THE.SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES_ JEFF.IN
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E-48 Now, did you get that? Then how? See it?
Through the Blood, washing of the Blood, taking away, separating of sin, that
the Holy Spirit woos the believer through the Blood, cleansing of the soul into
the fellowship, into this Spirit Life, inside with Christ, shut out the world,
and very nature of God is in you; still subject to mistakes, but God can't see
it, because it's covered by the Blood. God can't see through the Blood. Every
time He looks through the Blood, it looks white. He looks through the Blood; it
looks white.
So if God
was so pleased with Christ till He accepted Him, and said, "This is My
beloved Son, in Whom I'm well pleased."... And through Christ, being the
perfect One, us dead to our own thoughts and ideas, being born of the Spirit of
God, walking not after the theology, but after the Spirit inside of us, then
let the dead in Christ walk not after the things of the world, but after the
things of the Spirit. Romans 8:1 said, "There is therefore now no
condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh
(fighting, war, and strife, envying, selfish things), but after the
Spirit."
*YOU'RE GOING TO CHURCH, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT
ITSELF BEARS RECORD OF GATHERING TOGETHER IN CHRIST JESUS.
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See, you're inside of Christ,
walking. Then all the things of the world pass away, all the great creeds that
you had of this thing or that thing is all vanished away. And your heart and
mind becomes singular on Christ Jesus. That shows you have died to yourself and
borned again.
Then just as sure as church
time comes, you just can't keep from coming to church. See? You just going to go if you
have to hobble. That's all. You're going
to church, because the Spirit Itself bears record of gathering together in
Christ Jesus.
IF YOU KNOW THE LORD
JESUS IS COMING, OH, YOU'RE GOING TO CHURCH REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE WEATHER
LOOKS LIKE OR ANYTHING ELSE.
E-33 So
if somebody says, "Just stay home tonight and look at the television. It's
too bad to go out." Don't you worry. If you
know the Lord Jesus is coming, oh, you're going to church regardless of what
the weather looks like or anything else.
You're going to stay right there. For we're expecting something to
happen at any time.
When we see
Moscow with guided missiles, who could take this whole nation in one hour and
never leave Moscow... Just send up this rocket like that with explosions in it,
that's blowed so many thousand miles and guide it through the stars and radar,
drop it right on Manhattan here, three or four of them at a time. And there'll
be a--for fifteen miles each way would be hole in the ground a hundred and
seventy feet deep. What would you do?
Or maybe let
loose a hundred or two of them on the major cities at one time, in one hour's
time, there'd be no more United States and no more world, set up a chain
reaction and cause a total annihilation. What could it do? What are you going
to run to? Used to say, "Get a bomb shelter." They say now,
"That's nonsense."
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But we got a bomb shelter. Amen. You know what it's made out of?
Feathers: under His wings (Amen.) to be carried away, a bomb shelter of safety,
certainly...
Oh, my, how
this prophet, he wasn't discouraged. He said, "No, and as Lord liveth and
your soul liveth, I'm going to stay right with you." So they go on to the
school of prophets. The other fellow said, "You stay here for I'm going to
Jordan." He said, "As the Lord liveth, I'm not going to leave
you."
On down to
the Jordan they went to cross Jordan. Then Elisha turned around and said to
Eli--Elijah said to Elisha, "What do you desire? What you hanging around
for?" Oh, my, I like that. "What you hanging around for? What do you
desire?"
