Topic: The church

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What does the word 'church' mean?

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Oh, my. How the old fashioned Holy Ghost, now, right now in existence, free for all…Very typed all through the Bible that the Holy Spirit would lead the Church today. Israel, when it was called out of the wilderness, it was a church; it was a people of God. I was talking to Brother Frodsham a while...

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What happens when a revival is turned into an organization?

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Now, let me tell you something, friends. Then when Jesus came down to the Jordan to be baptized of John, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, went upon Him, He was filled with the Spirit of God, then into the wilderness He went to be tempted forty days, came out, and the miracles and s...

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How does the progress of science compare with the progress of the church?

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And I was just thinking a few moments ago upon the subject of science. And I, just thinking of how that science, how they are taking the natural man and how he’s went into the research from the fall of the natural and what he has done. And how little the spiritual man has progressed in the Kingdom o...

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What must happen before the gifts can be restored to the Church?

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I know the next thing to happen is the restoration of the gifts to the Church. And it’s the hardest thing I’ve had to do in this pioneering work, is to do this, as to see the people that…God cannot give back the gifts to the Church as long as His Church is divided. We’ve got to get the Church togeth...

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What does church unity have to do with Divine healing?

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And then, last week, I got to see the uniting of the Assemblies of God, the Church of God, the Foursquare church, and the Pentecostal Oneness together. And they’re having union revivals, every man, upon their baptismal services and things. Let every man be fully persuaded with one heart and one mind...

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What does 'Come out of her, My people' call people to come out of?

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The church has failed. See? Instead of bringing the people together as one body, it separated them out. Just like Moses, instead of speaking to the rock, he smote the rock (You see?), and it failed. So the church will never take the people over Jordan. That’s right. But now, God has changed His orde...

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Will the divisions among God's people ever come to an end?

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Now, who was He speaking to? Moses. Many of you in your Sunday school lessons has read of this great Bible character, Moses. I like him, because he was a—a shadow of the—of the coming of Christ. He was just a shadow of Christ’s coming. Notice. Now, when the people of Israel had gone down in Egypt, a...

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If Christ restored what the first Adam lost, what is the matter with the Church today?

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He was the first one who had the jurisdiction over everything in the earth (Is that right?), over all the animals. And he lost his—his power. And we’re taught in the Bible what the first Adam lost, the second Adam, Christ, restored again to the human race. Then, friends, if that’s so, ministers, wha...