Topic: The church

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Was the Church meant to be led by a program or by the Holy Spirit?

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We got our programs all drawed out, and lined out, and so forth, I don’t believe it was ever intended for the apostolic Church of God to be led by a program, I believe it’s God’s program to lead us by His Holy Spirit, just the way He will.

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What followed when the Methodists, and later the Pentecostals, grew formal?

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Back here some time ago when the—when the Lutherans had their revival, there’s a group called Methodists, they called for God: the deep calling to the deep. God rose up a little old fellow over there in England by the name of John Wesley, and—and Whitefield and them, and away they went with a messag...

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What made the Holy Spirit come on the Day of Pentecost?

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Here, not long ago…Now, I’m not a politician, neither am I a warmonger; I’m a minister of the Gospel. But here not long ago, everything you seen was Red Russia, Red Russia, we was talking about, until the German and the Second World War broke out, and then them people who did not believe in God, the...

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What is holding back the coming of the Lord Jesus for His Church?

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I believe this: that in the great realms of the Church, the only thing that’s holding off the coming of our Lord Jesus for His Church, and setting up of His Kingdom, is the differences between the full Gospel people. That’s right. As long as one say, “I belong to this; I belong to that. I received t...

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Has God always had a remnant who believe Him, as in the days of Noah?

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Now, tonight, I want to speak just a moment on “Expectation.” Simeon was a man; he was old; he’s way…We’re taught by theologians that he was somewhere in his eighties. But he had a real heart, waiting for God. Sometimes the church has got to a place to just a very few left, believers. But God has al...

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Are believers who belong to different churches still brothers?

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If He can show me what’s wrong with people in their lives, He can show me where to go, and what to do, and how long to stay. And I’ve been so tied up though. I got into…Well, at first when I left the Baptist church to be interdenominational to help bring the brethren together, to do all that I could...

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Does being a loyal church member make someone a believer?

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Now, there’s many has a profession that they believe, and today in my church, as in most all of our churches, we class a believer as one who is loyal to the church, and comes to church regular, and takes a—a place, a position in the church, and helps the church in its financial needs. But that’s ver...

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How does a person come into the Church of the living God?

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Dear brother, sister, there’s only one Church, and that’s the body of believers out of every church, that are truly believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the only Church there is. We do not come into the Church—into the Church of God. We become into this fellowship; the Baptist fellowship, the...

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Who makes up God's remnant today?

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Now, let’s take this case now of Simeon. Now, he was a righteous old man. He believed that God was going to let him see the Christ before he saw death. Now, let’s say he’s eighty something years old. And then He—He had another witness there. There was Anna the prophetess at the temple, John the Bapt...

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Should born-again Christians argue over the things they differ on?

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Now, if you come here and the Holy Spirit reveals something to you that’s been back in your life and speaks something another to you, and you know definitely that that’s the truth, now that’s bound to bring you to a realization that some Supernatural operation of some Supernatural Being is near. Is...

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How does God's leading of Israel relate to what He is doing for the Church today?

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I believe that all of the old things was a type of the new to come. What Israel was in the natural, we are in the spiritual. God leading Israel naturally, was what He’s doing for us spiritually today. We’re all very familiar with this Scripture that I’ve just read. And we’re going to try to set fort...

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How is the church today like the Israelites who complained after leaving Egypt?

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Maybe some of those poor Israelites…They left garlic and onions to eat Angel’s food, and was complaining about it. They had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the fountain of life, and were complaining about it. They had led—left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physic...

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Does God work through only one church?

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But the world has got off and got so formal and indifferent, till they just had their own set ways, their own rituals, their own creeds and so forth. And if you don’t come right up to that, you’re not in it. See? That’s the way the churches are today. You’ve got to come right up and look through my...

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How is the Body of Christ like Solomon's temple?

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Now, one of these days the Body’s going to come together just like that. That’s right. Just like Solomon’s temple, cut out all over the world. But when it come together, there wasn’t a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer. It went right straight together. Every mis-fit cube went right to its right p...

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Is the church in the spirit of the latter days?

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Now, there may be things that God has added to the church, which stimulate faith. But now, when I’m gone, healing isn’t gone. Healing ought to be more than it was ’fore we come here. See, see? That’s the purpose, is to get the people in their mind in the spirit of the latter days… We’re in the latte...

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How does the illustration of the hall of critics and the hall of fame apply to the Church?

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Now, I do realize there is fanatics. Certainly there is. There’s plenty of them. But a little Church that’s tried to struggle, not be any certain denomination or any certain name, but I mean peoples who love God, and has held out for the Supernatural, and for God being living in our midst today as H...

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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...