Born Again Hoax - The New Ensign

the decisions of your birth were dedicated by purpose before the worldwas framed. And there exists no one in this room whose name was notwritten down in the records of God before the world was framed, unlessthere may be one that slipped in from the enemy that I haven’t beheld;and God knew who he was too before he came in.You may think that when we talk about this that it is a sacrilegious thingto say when we tell you that orthodoxy has been supplemented in someof its dogma to ideas set up in ecclesiastic authority when it was invadedby those who thought they would shape the church, and seek even tochange the program of God's Kingdom so that they might retain powerand control.There are those who know that they only rule by ignorance; and there arethose who would be highly insulted if you said that their theology wasborn in any phase of such ignorance. But, the fact is this afternoon, thatit is important that you know who you are, how you came into existence,what your destiny is, and what it reaches out to in the endless ages oftomorrow.I want you to know that there is no room for 'crepe hanging' in theprogram of God's Kingdom. I want you to know that, that which is bornof God has been born out of a vital life of which there is no end.The whole discussion largely starts in the doctrines of Orthodoxy. Someonesaid: Dr. Swift you wouldn’t pose to oppose all Orthodoxy? NO. Wewill just say what God had to say, in the way God had to say it. Andexcept that if Orthodoxy agrees or disagrees is of no matter. It is onlyimportant that we understand what God’s mind was seeking to convey tothose who were before Him who did understand it when He got throughexplaining it to them. And if it becomes shrouded in mystery, it becameshrouded in mystery through Ecclesiastical barriers and walls, andthrough the process of Ecclesiastical order has placed upon men in theorganization of Institutions.I think of that man Nicodemus, a wise and very brilliant leader amongIsrael in the days of Christ. He was in the land of Judea. He was a( Page 6 )