(February 1987) 07 - Self Rising Bread — Ray Lowe

The Prophet Elijah and the Remnant Church

Prophet Elijah, up under a juniper tree, and his attitude was, I'm the only one left. Now I've heard that preached, that Elijah was self-righteous, and I never could accept that because I don't believe you could do what he had just done and be self-righteous.

The problem was, he couldn't find the church. That's right. He knew what the church was supposed to be. He knew what God's people were supposed to be. They had done got some messed up following Baal and Jezebel.

So he couldn't find the church. Amen? And God had to take him on another mountain. He said, what are you doing under this tree? And he said, ain't nobody left. Jezebel done killed all the prophets. All the people's done followed a strange God.

And as far as I'm concerned, if you'll get me out of here, we'll just call this thing quits. But the Lord took him on top of another mountain. You know what he seen? He saw the church. God let him see the church.

You know who the church was? 7 ,000 that had bowed their knees to Baal against the king. Only a remnant. He saw a remnant. Amen? Got back down off that mountain. God said, I'm not through with you yet.

You're going to finish this thing up. The restoration is going to take place. The rain is going to come. I am going to open the windows of heaven. Praise God. And he got down off the mountain, went back and finished the job, ordained the man that was going to take his place.

And God, sure enough, brought a double portion ministry and a double portion anointing on the people of that day. And I'll be honest with you. I've been through a period of time, too, having a battle of finding the church.

The New Testament Church and Its Mission

Because I read about the church in here. And I look at the church walking the earth, and there's very little resemblance. I said, there's very little resemblance. Amen? You read about a church in the book of Acts walking the streets and the shout of healing the sick.

You read about a church in the book of Acts. They're selling their possessions and giving it to the poor. The church of our time is getting their possessions and forgetting the poor. It's a lot of difference, isn't it?

Somebody say, Amen. But I want you to know God is restoring a people. Praise God. There's going to be a New Testament church on this earth when Jesus gets back. And I don't know about you, but I want to be a part of it.

That's all I'm fighting for, is to be a part of a New Testament church just like this Bible talks about. How many of you believe it's possible? Amen. I want you to turn with me tonight to 1 John 5. We're going to start reading at verse 1 and probably quit at verse 4.

1 John 5, verse 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Everyone that loveth Him that begot loveth Him also that is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments.

For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not grievous. Verse 4 is where we're going to really preach from. Give me a little on this, Mike. Give me a little training to talk tonight.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world. Leave out the word even. The translator's added it. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, our faith.

Our faith. Now, there's a lot in verse 4. First of all, it tells you who your enemy is and what you've got to overcome. You've got to overcome the world. Now, this has always been the church's problem.

The first century church had the world overcome just like the last century church is going to have to overcome. You study, and I'm sure the pastor could vouch for this probably more than anybody here, but you follow the church, the footsteps of the church, from Pentecost right on into this present hour.

And whatever age the church lived in was the age that the church had to overcome. Now, we are living in an age. We are in the world, but we can't be of it. We are people out of a people. We are a nation within a nation.

Amen? America is not God's nation. The church is a holy nation of God. So we are a nation within a nation. And we too today, our battle is with the world. Now, what is the world? Where did the world come from?

He's not talking about that big old balloon looking thing you walk out and there's stars up in. That's not what he's talking about. What is the world? Well, there was a time there was no such thing as a world as this word's talking about.

The world is that thing. See, it started out just Lucifer. He failed. What he'd done, he'd deceived man and produced a child called the flesh. And between the harmony of Satan and the flesh, that old man, they created what's known as a world or a system.

The world is Satan's system. In all its aspects is what it is. Now, we're living in a time that our battle is still with the world. We're still facing and fighting the world. But this scripture tells us that there is a victory that overcometh the world.

There's a people that's going to overcome the world, praise God. There's a people that the spirit of this world or the spirit of this age is not going to swallow up, praise God. Amen? How many believe that tonight?

Amen. And here it tells us how. For this is the victory that overcometh the world. I told you last night. I mean, it's scriptural. All of God's future promises is written to the overcomer. All of them.

Jesus said, I'm going to build a church that the gates of hell will not overcome. Amen? Now, he said, thou art Peter and upon this rock. Now, I can take the word rock out and insert the word faith and do no damage to truth.

Upon this faith, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Now, this word faith is not PMA. PMA is what's being taught as a positive mental attitude. It's got nothing to do with PMA.

This word faith is a total embodiment of truth. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even the embodiment of truth. Hallelujah. It's got nothing to do with a mental attitude. Positive mental attitude.

I believe it's good to have a positive mental attitude, but if that's all you got going for you, you're in trouble. It's the same word that Jude used when he said you should earnestly contend for the faith.

It's contending for the embodiment of truth. It's standing for the gospel. It's standing for that which God has ordained and establishes being truth. Amen. If I was the devil, and some folks think I am, victory that overcometh the world, our faith.

If I was the devil, the only thing I have to do to keep you from being an overcomer is fool with faith. All I got to do, because the Bible says, your faith is a victory that overcometh the world. Your faith is a victory, or the embodiment of truth that you possess is that which will give you the strength to prevail against the world.

So, if I was going to overthrow you, or keep you from being an overcomer, then all I've got to do is deal with this word, or this thing, or this embodiment of truth that we call faith. Amen. And that's exactly what the devil has done.

Faith as the Substance of Truth

You don't have to turn, but lest I... Of course, this is going to be a hard one to misquote. But Hebrews chapter 11, verse 1, it says,. Now faith is substance. What is faith? Substance. What is substance?

Somebody says it's the surest. That's right. But that's not the whole meaning of the word. Faith is that which is solid, and sound, and sure, and steadfast, and unmovable, and will not fail you if you've got it.

Substance. That which you hope for, and the evidence not seen. I preached a message one time, back in my carnal years, on the ingredients of faith. Until I realized, it is the ingredients. This, and part that, and mix it together and make faith.

Faith is the substance. It's the essence. What's the essence? It's the essential ingredients. Three different ingredients to get faith. Faith is from God. How many remembers the parable where Jesus said,.

How many remembers that parable? He said, A man comes up into this field. Finds this treasure. Sells all that he's got. The treasure. He buys the field. He talks about mustard seed. The black mustard seed of the Middle East was the smallest seed there was.

Among the smallest. Among the least seed. But it is growth. The garden. Around it. That's what he said. He said, Okay, he follows all these parables with another parable. He said, A woman took and hid in three measures of meal.

Now, I want you to get this. He gave the parable first of the sowing of the mustard seed. Then he gave the parable, The kingdom of heaven is likened to the leaven that a woman took. And hid that leaven, or mixed that leaven into meal.

And the whole lump became what? Leavened. Now, you listen close. You listen close. The word mystery in the Bible means that which is hid. Give me a little volume on this mic. If it gets too loud, they can put cotton in their ears.

Anything in the Bible, The word mystery, when you see the word mystery, it means that which is hid. Basic mysteries. There's more than this. But for the sake of my message tonight, we're going to call only two.

That's the mystery of God. And the mystery of iniquity. Parable. Both of those mysteries are involved. Leaven. Ethical sense means iniquity. The mystery of iniquity. You find it back in the book of Leviticus.

Was made the priest's bread. Amen. We're going somewhere tonight. Now, what this woman done. This woman is a very important person in scripture. What this woman thought. Faith comes by mixing something.

The bread of God. That's where the seed was planted. That Old Testament. It runs like a river. Through that New Testament. Through Jacob. It comes all the way down. It's the seed. The promise was made.

Or the seed could come on down. That seed is Christ. Faith is the word. You didn't catch. You're overly tied to. You're overseeing. These terms in the Bible, we used to mix stuff on them. These terms out for us.

Here is the preacher. The Bible says preacher. Faith comes by hearing. Preacher. Preacher. Nothing to get it. Put it in you. What is it, brother Lowe? It's the seed of Christ. It's the word of God. It's an incorrect woman.

Let's go back to this woman. Jesus told us what the seed was. It's like a mustard seed. Why do you think he said if you can have faith. Not the size of a mustard seed. As a mustard seed. If you let it, it will grow into a tree.

It will get big. It will get bigger than the mountain they set you up against. There is a woman. She began to mix. She took the mystery of iniquity that Paul said. It's already working. To mix it in with truth.

What's he done? The substance of it. Constantly saying, purge out the old heaven. Purge out the old heaven. In Galatia he said, law and grace won't mix. You can't mix it. It's not Jesus plus. It's Jesus period.

It's Christ. Woman. What is this woman? Picture something. Wisdom. Case of wisdom. Wisdom. Who does Paul say is our wisdom? Christ our sanctification. Our wisdom. He's our everything. Hallelujah. So that one of those women on the street corner there.

In the first ten chapters of Proverbs. Is the personification of wisdom. But it's really Christ. Wisdom is saying. Bring it home with you. Get wisdom. Get out of here. How you doing? You're going to save yourself.

He said if you'll get it. To your bone. Glory to God. He'll get on down deeper than skin deep. He'll get on down to that stuff that's in your bone. Hallelujah. He'll heal your body. He'll preserve you.

He'll keep you. Get wisdom he says. And he'll keep you. Tend to my words. Wisdom. Wisdom. Christ. Same street corner. There's another woman. She beckons. Home. If it ain't in there. Then I'll apologize tomorrow night.

It's in there. There's another woman. Been to that same crowd. Now back in her place. She has a bed. Amen. And if you'll come on to my house. Have a big time. Bible says. Her steps. Are the stairways to hell.

Because she has on of the attire. Of a harlot. Brother there's two women back on the streets today. There's two women back in this land today. As clear as I've ever seen it before. One of them is the spirit of Christ.

The spirit of God. The spirit of truth. That came down this earth 2 ,000 years ago. Crying to this same crowd. Come on. Get wisdom. Come on. Get understanding. Take it home with you. But brother there's another woman in this land.

With an attire behind it. Very rich. All got all the expensive gifts. Got all the expensive things. And said come on and go to bed with me. We're going to have a big time. But you better listen. You better listen.

This is how you better discern. Which voice is saying what. And which one you're going to follow. Jesus talks about a woman. That deals. And says that faith comes by mixing. You got to have this and that and the other.

To make faith. But no sir. Faith is the ingredient. Period. Praise God. What happened? To the apostolic faith. Would you like to know what happened to it? This woman raised her head up again. Just 60 years after Pentecost.

The day that Peter walked the streets and his shadow healed the sick. About just a few years. From the time of the gate called beautiful. Where those early preachers said we don't have any silver. We are broke.

We don't have any money. But we got something else. We got the power of God in our lives. Silver and gold have we none. But such as we have. We going to give it to you. In the name of Jesus. Get up and walk.

Hallelujah. Back to the place. Where we can say to a crippled world. That's right outside our door. We don't have any silver. But we got something better. Than either one of them. We are headed. And if you want to go.

Let's go. I said if you want to go. Let's go. If you want to go to bed with a heartache. Go ahead. I done made my field. And my covenant. With the Lord Jesus Christ. I done set my goal. I'm headed with him.

Hallelujah. Apostolic doctrine. The embodiment of truth. That they established. The great apostle Paul. What happened to it. The mystery of iniquity. Could not work. As long as Paul was here. I'll show you.

That there's two ministries. That the church has done away with. Which is the apostle and prophet. Amen. Did you know the church has got AIDS. Did you know the church has got AIDS. How many knows what AIDS is.

It's the immunity system of the body destroyed. It's a built in mechanism. That keeps foreign objects. Or viruses. You know the only thing that will keep you. Brother. You got to have a built in immunity system.

That nothing can come through it. Praise God. Say Amen. That early church. Had something in it. What did it have. It didn't have a three fold ministry. It had a five fold ministry. It had prophets. And it had apostles.

Bless God. That when you tried to mix something in. With the embodiment of truth. They said you can't do it. You can't do it. You can't mix it Galatia. Paul said no Galatia. It won't mix. It won't mix.

He said no Corinthians. We can't. And he said I'm going to write a letter. And if that don't do. And you folks done had us down here. I told you. I'm going to stop it. If I have to stop it with a rod.

He said. The mystery of iniquity. And then he works. Is that it preacher. I got a hold of something. When them apostles move. Was moved out the way. That immunity system was took out. And AIDS. And the beast.

I'm going to preach. I've been telling you all week. God help me tomorrow night. I'm going to preach on the house of prayer. And buddy. You talk about an eye opener. It's going to open some eyes. When those apostles.

That apostolic. Those apostles begin to die. Was took out the way. The same woman. That tried to mix. Law. In the Galatian church. To pervert the church. It was a spread of witchcraft. Because Paul said.

You should turn away. You was running good. You was running a good race. But somebody's done hindered you. Got in your way. Mix something in. Be formed in you again. A woman's done hit the mill. End with the mill.

Got leaven. He said. Here's what happened. When those apostles moved. God help us. As preachers. Help me tonight. These people's hearts. Jesus. Talking brothers and sisters. Sister. God. Ain't only revenging the mystery of Christ.

He's revenging the mystery of iniquity. The man of sin. Is being revealed. Jesus can't come till he is. Looking for man. To jump up over yonder somewhere. They may be. But the spirit of it's got to come first.

What happened. Here's what happened. Those apostles left the scene. The woman knew. She tried it while they were here. Knew she couldn't mix the leaven in with it. But as soon as they left the scene. The immunity system was destroyed.

Leaven come in. In with the embodiment of truth. It was only three measures of meal. Three measures of meal. I mean three measures of leaven. Mixed in three measures of meal. Mixed the leaven in three measures of meal.

Just a little bit of leaven. You can take a pinch of leaven. And put it in this room full of meal. And leaven the whole lot. Stuff in with the truth. Rather than it begin to grow. It grew and grew and grew.

For years and years and years and hundreds of years. Until it woke up one day and realized. That the church. The mist of iniquity. Had mixed in with the mist of Christ. Swallowed it up. And the church went into the dark ages.

No light shining. Church still going. There's still a church. Still having church. But instead of apostles. And puppets. They had. And cardinals. The word of God away from the people. Is that right? Ask the pastor.

He studied all this stuff in detail. The church went into the dark ages. The little leaven. Had leaven the whole lot. The mist of iniquity. Had swallowed up the mist of Christ. I want you to know one day.

Unannounced. Spirit praise God. Spoke to a man by the name of Martin Luther. And said the just shall live by faith. Ray of light. Just a little pinch of light. But I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something brother and sister.

That's all the light you need. To dispel. A whole world of darkness. If you'll let that light. Shine praise God. It's like. Hey. It's just like Jesus said the mustard seed is. If you'll plant it. If you'll plant it.

And he'll grow. And he'll grow. Not necessarily in the same. In the same vessel. But he'll grow. And God planted the seed. That the just shall live by faith. Before we go any farther. Up that ladder. Let's go back a little.

What did the woman do? She brought forth the doctrine. And I may mispronounce this. But you'll know what it is. She brought forth the doctrine called. Trans Substantiation. Is that right? Is that the way you say it?

Trans Substantiation. If you're Catholic. You understand it plainly. What does it mean? It's a medieval Latin word. The word trans means. Change. Substantiation means. Substance. Change. Substance. Substantiation means.

Change. Substance. What did they do? They took the sacraments. The wine. The cookie. The bread. That you take when you take communion. Here's what they done. If I touch that. It will change. Into the literal blood and body of Jesus.

And when you eat it. People. Preacher. A Pope. Cookie. And said we have just drank the blood. And eat the body of Christ. All the difference. Crowd out against it. And were martyred for it. Read Fox's book of martyrs.

Most of them died for opposing. Transubstantiation. They said it's not so. It's not so. Sure we eat his flesh. And we drink his blood. But it's the spiritual partaking. You got to spiritually eat his word.

And spiritually drink his blood. That cookie ate the body of Jesus. That wine ate the blood of Jesus. You got to have it applied. What happened? The woman. Changed the mystery of iniquity. Where did the mystery of iniquity start?

It started back at the Tower of Babel. It come right on up through. The Assyrian. The Babylon. Excuse me. Let's go back. I skipped one. The Egyptian. The Assyrian. The Babylon. The Greek. The Medo-Persian.

Right on into Rome. Praise God. Right on in. Right on in. That mystery of iniquity. Trying to mix in. Always trying to get in. Always. Always. Always. Always. See it never could get in that Old Testament.

As long as them prophets stayed alive. Never. You don't get by real prophets of God. And real apostles of God. Amen. Somebody say Amen. That's why God's going to restore them back to the church. You might as well get ready.

You say we need an evangelist. No you don't. You need a prophet and apostle. That stand in this pulpit. And pour truth after you. The spirit of Elijah is in the land. It's coming back in the land. It's coming on the ministry.

My wife is not here. But some of the folks that's been around me. I've preached all my 23 years. I've been hearing God's voice over. And over and over. I'll send the spirit of Elijah on the ministry. Before that great and terrible day of the Lord come.

And it's going to do a restoration in the church. That ministry. That anointing. Is on your pastor. And on this evangelist. Because it's back in the land to put back. Amen. Everything that the devils took out of the church.

You might as well get ready for Elijah. I said you might as well get ready. It's back in the land. Hallelujah. Restoring the covenant back. Getting the living out of the law. Praise God. Ministry. Don't have to beg for money.

Say amen. I said say amen. That's that ministry where God supernaturally. Amen. Takes care of you. My heart. You don't have to worry about it. All you got to worry about is obeying God. Saying what He said.

Back in the land. See. Because here's what's happened. Here's what's happened. I'm not going to preach this tonight. I may preach this. I'm not going to preach Sunday morning. I may preach this Sunday morning on the church of Laodicea.

But Laodicea is a totality of mixing. It's the end results. Of mixing. The mystery of iniquity. And the mystery of Christ together. And it's the one. You eat the bread. It's got leaven in it. The Lord eats it.

It makes Him sick. He can't stand leaven Mark. That's why He says that's the church. I'm going to spew out of my mouth. It makes me sick. It's a mixed church. We're fixing to get unmixed brother from the world.

We've gone through a purging. The leaven is coming out of the lump. Somebody say amen. Laodicea. We're the church of Laodicea. And I approve it. Transubstantiation. All you've got to do to overthrow with the world.

Where you can't overcome the world. Is mix the substance. Change the substance. Okay. Martin Luther only started the climb. Only started. He never did accept all the embodiment of truth. Did you know Martin Luther said the book of James is not supposed to even belong to the Bible?

That's right. Martin Luther says the book of James should have not been written. But I believe it should. Because if you understand it, it's not a contradiction of what Paul said. Say amen. The book of James is not what makes faith.

It's results of faith. I said it's results of faith. Works. It's the results of faith. If you've got real faith, it'll work. Say amen. It's active. Faith is active. Amen. How many of these real faithers works?

You know how you show your faith? Not by talking about it. It won't show up. If you've got it, it'll show up. You know what I tell folks? I preach and tell folks what kind of condition the church is in.

I had one moment I won't ever forget. I got through preaching and writing on the sixth chapter of the book of Hebrews. I'm going on to perfection. Stood up in the back, sanctified. I'm preaching to those that wants to get prayed up, ready to go.

But you know what I did say? Lady, if you've got it, I want to see it. All I ask you to do, if you've got it, put it on, put it out, let us see it. Because this thing will demonstrate itself. You don't have to tell folks what you are.

Paul said, you don't have to claim to be an apostle. If I'm an apostle, the works of an apostle will follow me. If I'm a prophet, I don't have to tell you I'm a prophet. The works of a prophet will follow me.

Can you say amen? If you're a Christian, you don't have to put a sign on your bumper of your car and say I'm a Christian. If you're a Christian, it'll show up. Bless God. You don't have to wear a t-shirt saying I'm a Christian.

If you're a Christian, it'll show up. It'll show up. The world can see if you've got the real thing. Hallelujah. The hands you bleed at tonight. And I'm going to tell you what I told her. Put up or shut up.

Is that okay? Put your dudes up or shut your mouth up. Brother, God's fixing to put up. And some of these others is fixing to shut up. We're coming out. Show yourself. Now what we've been doing. Amen.

What are you going to show? I'm going to show you the mystery of iniquity and the mystery of Christ. They're both rising. They're both in the land. And you're going to clearly see both of them. Jesus won't return until this thing's revealed.

Modern Distortions of Faith

What about today? What about today? What about the faith today? Well, we've done the same thing, only more. We've changed the substance of faith again. Only this time, it's far more deceptive. Far more deceptive.

This time, we back it up with signs and wonders. But we've done the same thing again. We've changed the substance. Amen. That's the essential ingredient. Amen. Period. You don't have to add anything with faith to make faith.

Now, what's wrong today? Well, I said to start with, faith in our day is not preached as an embodiment of truth. It's preached as a positive mental attitude. Is that right? These folks all around me in Mississippi, they get up every morning and quote a hundred Scriptures, or the Scripture they want to work a hundred times.

They're taught in the Pentecostal Charismatic Full Gospel Church down in that area. If you want it to work, you've got to quote it a hundred times. You know what I'd do if I was them? I'd put it on a tape and play it.

I wouldn't play it a hundred times. I'd play it a million times. But if you played it ten trillion times, that ain't faith. Faith don't come by quoting Scriptures. Faith is a seed planted in your heart.

I said faith is a seed in your heart. And if it's never been planted, you ain't got none. You can grunt and groan. You can spit. You can slobber. You can jump. You can scream. You can holler. You can get mad at the preacher.

You can get mad at the evangelist. You can do anything you want to do. You can get Oral Robertson's prayer cloth. You can get Jack Cole's prayer cloth. You can get Schomburg's prayer cloth. You can call the prayer tower.

You can call the Vatican. You can do anything you want to do. But if you ain't got faith, ain't nothing. If the seed hadn't been planted in you, if the preacher hadn't preached the Word, and faith didn't develop by hearing the Word, if the Word's not in there, if the seed's not in there, I don't care what you do to have faith, you ain't going to ever have no faith, because it ain't there.

Sowing what? A seed. What kind of seed? The Word of God. And it comes in. And you can't make it grow. Faith at work. It didn't come up that day, so you go back out. Seeds come up, because it's the principle inside of that seed.

Seed is don't let nothing hinder it. In the book of Joel, where it says the seeds are wrought under the clod. Did you know most of you are clods? Yeah. Seed gets wrought under the clod. In other words, there's a big old clod setting up on it, and it wants to come out, and the clod won't move.

Now, the only thing you do with a clod is hit it. Bust it. And then when you bust the clod, that faith will just come on out. It'll just come on out. Can you say that? Grow. You have to just let it grow.

Don't hinder it. Keep the weeds out. You ever notice the parable of the sower? Two of them folks, the parable of the sower, ever born again. Them first who ain't born is where most of us are. This thing started growing in us.

Things begin to enter in our garden and choke it out. You got caught up with the cares of this life, getting rich, getting things. No time for prayer. No time for Bible reading. You got to... I owe, I owe, I owe.

And off to work, I go, go, go. No time. But that's faith. Okay? Mix nothing with it. But today we have a faith in our land that's not the real. I said it's not the real. The same woman, the same spirit that started this thing out in the dark ages.

I'm going to tell you something. And I saw this years ago. You leave the church alone. Take the kind of preaching I'm doing and that your pastor's doing. Brother GW's teaching and some of you others is getting a hold of.

You take us all off the scene now. Let the church continue where she's headed. And we'll have another dark ages. Because we have produced the soil for another dark age. But it ain't going to happen. We're coming out now.

We're coming on. I said we're coming on. It ain't going to happen again. The trend's going to turn, praise God. I said it's going to turn. How many believe that tonight it's going to turn? All I've got to do to keep you from being an overcomer is mix something in with the embodiment of truth.

Amen. Mix it in. And there's been another mixing. Now brother and sister, please hear what I'm saying. Please hear what I'm saying. The most important thing, the most important thing of your life tonight is you clean the wax out of your spiritual ears.

You ask God to move all the hard crust from around your heart. And you fine tune your hearing mechanism. Amen. To make sure that you hear the right voice. Because there's more than one voice in our land tonight.

Amen. I don't know if you've ever noticed this or not, but the first beast in Revelation rises, and anybody can tell he's a beast. He's like a leopard, a lion, and a bear. Easy to recognize. But the second beast that rises has horns like a lamb.

He looks just like a lamb. How can you detect the second beast? He looks like a lamb. You know how you can tell what comes out of his mouth? He speaks like the dragon. This is an hour. You better fine tune your ear to hear what God is saying.

Because I want you to know what he's doing, brother Mark. He's taking the embodiment of truth that was established by those apostles hundreds of years ago, and he's snatching all the living out of it.

He's going to purge it. He's going to purge this thing. He's going to thoroughly purge this floor, the Bible says. He's going to purge it and purge it and purge it and purge it. Now, you can believe that the tares and the wheat grow together.

You can believe that. Because it does appear. But I really believe there's more to him sending those messengers or those angels than we've ever seen. That just before the end, or in the time of the harvest, he sends his angels to gather the tares into bundles to get them out from among the wheat.

But you cannot see it that way and just say, we've got to leave the tares and the wheat alone and let them grow together. But there's one thing you'll have to say by the Word of God. Paul never left the leaven in the lump.

Never. You can't leave the leaven in the lump. It's got to be purged out. Didn't Paul purge the Galatian church? Didn't Paul purge the Corinthian church? He spoke the same words in the Corinthian church.

Only in Corinthian church, the leaven was sin. Immorality. In the Galatian church, it was law trying to mix in with grace. It doesn't matter what it is. Leaven is leaven, brother and sister. Law will kill grace just as quick as sin will kill the Spirit of God.

Mixture is mixture. There's a mixture in the embodiment of truth. And it all happened. It happened the same way again. Has it ever occurred to you that God, or when Jesus ascended, He led captivity, the Captain gave gifts unto men?

Has it ever occurred to you why we've never recognized but three of them in the church? Ain't that true, preacher? You notice everybody's either a pastor, a teacher, or an evangelist. Is that right? Have you ever heard of anybody coming through the land and the church recognized that that guy's a prophet?

That guy's an apostle. No, we're either the evangelist or the pastor or the teacher. What did we do with those other two? You really don't want me to tell you. So the church has got AIDS. You say AIDS is only coming on the perverted.

You listen close. 1968, the Lord took me and set me in a church. And me and Jesus stood at the back of the church. Big church. This is in the Spirit. This church was crowned, packed with people, even hanging in the windows.

They were everywhere, just packed with people everywhere. The service was going. When I walked into that church or as we stood there, even without Him saying anything to me, I recognized something. I recognized the sacredness of that service was not there.

The sacredness of God was not there. It was a church. It was a church just like we have church. Same order that we got. People were clapping. Music was going. People were swinging. It was church. But I immediately recognized that something was wrong.