<TITLE>08. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... wondered if he hire somebody to take him there on the hill. One said, "Well, I just drive these horses within two foot of the rim at a full gallop and never go off."
The other one said, "I can drive it within six inches and never go off."
Said, "What about you?" to the next one.
He said, "I stay just as far over as I can."
He said, "You take me around."
Don't see how close you can get to the sin. See how far you can stay away from sin. Get way away from it, just altogether shut it off. It's a shame that our American people do: wallow and doing the things.
You go in some homes today... I've went to Christian homes, and open the ice box, and it would be full of beer cans, supposed to be Christian home. Christians don't fool with that stuff. That's right. What do you think you're doing? We've traded the old fashion prayer altar out of the house and made a card table out of it. That's what's stops your children from...?... it's parent delinquency. If the parent would teach the child and see where they're at, take care of them, it wouldn't be so...?... That's right.

L-24 We see young ladies, laying down here on these beaches, bathing suits on before men. And out here on the streets with some of these vulgar clothes on, and let somebody insult some of them, and you want to...?... That's right. Send her out like that or let her go out like that... So...?...
I was talking to some little lady the other day; she said, "Well, I'm trying to get her some suntan."
I said, "Look, I got a little girl at home; I don't know what will...?... but if I ever stre--catch her stretched out like that, she will get a son-tan, but it will be Mr. Branham's son giving her a tanning with a rail or something behind her, just as hard as I get her home." That's right. She will get the right kind of tanning she needs. That's just exactly right. Thank you. That's the kind of tanning we need...?... [A portion of the tape is not audible enough to transcribe--Ed.]

L-25 Now, I can see the young man goes out from...?... 'cause...?... all you do is pass back and forth to the church...?..." I can hear them say, "Why don't you...?... Come on down to my house and live like a boy should live." Well, first thing you know, I can see him now: he's going to ask his daddy: "Dad, you're getting old, and mother's getting old...?..."
But he comes in one day, and...?... his mother and father... First thing he said, "Father, I want you to give me my portion. I'm tired of hanging around the house here. All of my friends...?... They're all out going, has their own places. I want to do as the rest of them does." Don't you never follow the crowds; you follow Jesus.
But that's the attitude of young people today: "I want to do like the rest of them." Don't never you pattern yourself by them; pattern your--your pattern by Him.

L-26 Then I hear him say...?... I hear the father say, "Well, son, this is only way I have of making a living. This is the only livelihood."
"Well, I have an inheritance, and you give it to me. My rights..." What is your right?
I can see the poor old father; it bothered him very much. "Well, what are you going to do, son?"
He said, "I'm going down to the city, and I'm going to live like the rest of them."...?...
"...?... stay with mother and I, we love you with all of our heart, and we want to be good as we can be. We've done everything we can." But that wouldn't satisfy. Satan's got ahold of the boy. So he was going down to the city and live like the rest of the worldly people.
Then I can see his father tell the mother, "Mother, you know would happen? Our boy has got with the wrong crowd. And he's a young man now, so there's--he's asked me to sell the farm and take all that I have and divide it with him and his brother." I can't...?..."


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