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It seems that others are intimidated by that polish, that "intellectual
ity," that mannerism that has been "put-on" that they have. Now, some
day that kind of behavior is all going to perish when this whole earth •
is going to burn up. There won't be any of that left and some of our
intellectuals are going to burn up with it -- if they don't wake up in
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time and if they don't realize that kind of intellectualism is of Satan
the devil.
Let me explain a minute about that before I go on. This type of in
tellectualism emphasizes scholarship. They all want to be scholars.
They want high scholarship. It is 100% carnal. There is none of God,
none of Christ in it. It is an intellectualism that throws Christ
right out the window and has been like leaven getting into and spread
ing in the College....
Now there's another thing I want to mention. It has become stylish to
say that Mr. Herbert Armstrong is very much out-of-date. Prophecy is
a word in the Bible that both means to receive prophecies from God
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(like the ancient prophets) and to foretell; but also, in more cases,
it means to preach with inspiration -- a fired -up kind of preaching.
Today, it seems like we get a lot of very mild modern intellectual
classroom lectures and it's gotten to be out of style on this platform
and in this church for someone to really speak out in a preaching service.
I was glad to hear a little speaking out
in
the serrnonette this after
noon. I want to hear more of that kind of preaching. I want to hear
more of that absolute conviction!
Now, the Holy Spirit of God in us is not raw emotion, but there cer
tainly is an emotional content and it certainly does work on our emo
tions. At the other extreme, some people wear their emotions on their
shirt sleeves and I don't mean that kind of preaching at all.
Well, brethren, we're all humans and Satan is infinitely more powerful
than we and he's been getting into this church and it came to the place
that no one seemed to know who was in charge around here. It came to
the place where some of you said in essence, "I am of Paul," others
of you were of Apollos, and others of Cephus. In 1974 there was an
effort to overthrow the church in a grand coup -- just like taking
over a government in the world. But Jesus Christ is the head of this
church and He didn't let it happen.
At that time we lost some 30 to 35 ministers and a couple of thousand
members. In six months we had more than made up for it as others came
along and took their places. I will tell you, as far as I know -- and
I haven't heard about every one of them -- but so far as I know most
of those ministers who went out in that rebellion (and that's what it
was) are working at physical labor with their hands at any kind of
job they can get today. They•re not in the ministry. But at the time
they were going to take members with them and they were going to build
a big church thernselves. They 've said, "Wel1, Herbert Armstrong did
it, so can I." Well, Herbert Armstrong DID NOT DO IT, JESUS CHRIST
built this church and I was only an instrument that He used. I gave
myself to Hirn and He has used me. I didn't do it and not one of you
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have ever heard me take credit for it. I know someone else that says
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he built this church, but he did not. Jesus Christ did.