<TITLE>08. Par 70-81</TITLE>L-70 So, Adam taken Eve as his wife. And then when sin came in... And I have my idea of what that was. I don't express it out in the church, less I just having a little class of some sort, of what the sin was in the beginning. But anyhow, when it did, it separated them from fellowship with God.
Now, here's the picture I want to get. Now, when God realized, or some Angel, or some being had come up and told God, that, "Your son is lost. He--he sinned. He's fallen."...
Now, watch the strain of man, the first thing, is make hisself a religion. A man, he's got some kind of a religion.
I was talking to a famous man here in the city the other day. Said, "You know, my religion, Brother Branham, is keeping the Golden Rule." That's good. But, brother, unless a man is born again, he will perish. Yes. He's got to; he's got to be borned again. Now, the Golden Rule is all right; that, a moral man can do that. But it's got to be all in the supernatural line. And you'll see what God had to do in order that we could be supernaturally born.

L-75 Now, when, then, he sinned, he--he made hisself a reli... A word "religion" means "covering." It's like something covers. This coat is a--is a--a moral religion to me, because it covers my being. And your clothes is the same way. And it's a... It's a--a covering.
Now, notice then, when Adam, his fig leaves were all right as long as he didn't have to face God. But when he had to face God, he realized his fig leaves was no good. And now, friend, you might think you're a pretty good person (See?), and you might be. That's right. But when you come to face God, you're... if you haven't accepted God's provided Sacrifice for you, you're lost and you'll know it.

L-77 I have stood by their side, watch them die, see the doctor shoot hypos in their arms to keep them quiet, and hear them scream and carry on. Say, "Oh, they're just beside themselves."
I said, "Doc, please keep it out, just a minute longer." See? And you can hear them when they--they think you're right.
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death."
And every man that's ungenerated--unregenerated of God, will go that way of destruction. You can't help it. Your own soul guides you. If you're borned again, you're bound to go up. If you're not born again, you've got to go down. Just your--your own soul will do it. Just like a--a magic wand that would open a door or somewhere; if you haven't got the--the wand, the door won't open. And if you're not borned again, you're just rejected automatically; that's all. Now...

L-81 And then when I--I see there, then, when they come out, and God knew that they could not stand before Him. And He knew. And they were hiding, hiding back in some bushes, yet covered up, but they knowed their covering wasn't sufficient.
And every man or woman that goes to church... Today I was thinking of the cathedrals a ringing out, and the bells a tolling, and so forth like that; and people going to the church, and making ready, and the women buying their Easter hats and so forth. What has this come to? My, how I can't understand where a rabbit has anything to do with the resurrection (See? No, sir.), or how a Christmas tree has anything to do with the birth of Christ. It's pagan, friends. We've got off the path somewhere. That's right. But now a real born again man or woman realizes, because there's life within you, tells you that that's wrong. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]


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