Questions & Answers
Questions 31 (COD Page 173)
Now: When we’re... When we live far from here to attend... We live too far from here to attend the tabernacle. Where do you recommend we attend, assembly ourselves together, seeing that the churches are after the mother church, or, Catholicism?
146 My dear brother or sister, whoever wrote it, I wouldn’t tell you what church to attend. But what I would do, this, my brother, sister, I... If you haven’t got the baptism of the Holy Spirit, see, well, you get the baptism of the Holy Spirit and then you go to some congregation where there’s other people who has got the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You got... congregate yourself with them kind of people!
147 I seen a man, here not long ago, that was born ten years since he... or, not born, I beg your pardon, it was ten years since he had seen any sight. He belonged to a great church, and he lived at Kennett, Missouri. And he had... he was a-was a shoe cobbler years ago, and went blind. And the man come on the platform, and the Holy Spirit told him who he was and what was wrong with him, told him how long he had been blind, and told him of some little, dirty deed that he had done. He said, “If God will let me live to get there, I’ll make that
right.” And, when he said that, his eyes come open; and this very same Bible, he read chapter after chapter out of It.
148 He returned to his church and was giving praise. And the pastor told him, “It would have happened anyhow. Why, you just merely got worked up, there was nothing to it. There’s nothing to that stuff, it’s of the devil!”
149 I challenge anyone to show me one Scripture where the devil can heal. If you will show me where the devil can heal, I’ll prove the devil is your father; that’s right, if you’ll do that. It’s not in the Words of God. It cannot be proven. And you might... you can want to try it, you’re welcome. But that’s been met by bishops and everything else, brother, so don’t say that.
150 Look! And that same man got to, in his heart, believing it. And three months later he was in my services, just as blind as he was in the first place. There you are.
151 So keep out of them isms! Congregate yourself with somebody who believes, associate yourselves. The Bible said, “Yoke yourself not up among unbelievers.” “Be ye separated,” saith God. Come out! The Bible said, “Come out from among them, and be... touch not their unclean things, and I will receive you. I’m the Lord Who stands in the midst of the church.” That’s right. Come out! Don’t associate with such!
152 But let... get yourself among some church, some good church. Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Campbellite, whoever it may be, it don’t make... Where real true believers are in there, they don’t care what the church creed says, they go there to meet with their brothers and sisters and worship God, together. All right.