<TITLE>06. Par 27-33</TITLE>L-27 Now, can you get that? It's his nature to try to bypass God if he can't just stand in His Presence justified.
And no man at any time or any age ever sought after God. God seeks after man.
A man, his nature is to run from God. As soon as Adam realized he was sin, why, he should've been running through the garden screaming, "Father, Father, where art Thou?"
But instead of that, it was God screaming, "Adam, Adam, where art Thou?" and Adam hiding. See the difference?

L-28 Now, that's man's nature today. Right today, if every man in Chicago will be honest with himself, absolutely honest, well, you couldn't pack them around on these streets here today trying to seek salvation. Why, it would close every whiskey joint in this city and everything else. If men would only be honest with himself. But he will drink, he will--he will do everything to try to get behind it, get away from it, throw it away from him.

L-29 But now, that's his beginning. That shows what he is in his make up, he's nothing to begin with. His nature, his fallen condition, he is absolutely nothing. He is even lower moralled than the animal in his fallen nature. Say, that's a big thing to say, isn't it? But that's the truth, Christians. A man in his fallen nature is more de--demoralized than any animal in the world. There isn't a animal to his morals...
You know how the mother hog is, and the mother dog, and so forth, they raise their puppies and so forth, and that settles it. But a immoral woman or a man... A man would throw a baby out of a mother's arms to satisfy his--his beastly passion. That shows that he is--he has fallen. He's degraded; he's below the animal life. When he's in his... No matter how much of a gentleman he acts to be, without Jesus Christ he's lost and undone. That's right.

L-30 And somebody says religion runs you crazy. Why, it's the only thing in the world that'll give you your right mind. That's right. Jesus never set anyone crazy; He set the crazy people at liberty and give them their right mind. That's what the--the power of God has always did: to liberate the maniacs and so forth, and put them in their right mind. And no man is perfectly in his right mind until he's found Jesus Christ in his life. He's--he isn't. Now, that's bad, but that's the truth; we must face facts.

L-31 Now, as soon as Adam realized he had sinned, he knowed he had to stand in His Presence, so--or God's Presence, he made a fig leaf apron and got in behind the bushes. But when God came out, He said, "Adam, where are you?"
And Adam couldn't come out. He realized when he had to face God, that the religion that he had made for himself would not hold in the Presence of God.
Now, I want you to base that thought now, the religion, his own self-made, man-made religion, would not stand when he had to face God.

L-32 And brother, sister, I've had twenty years as a minister; I've held people on my arms dying. I've seen them with all kinds of professions, and I've seen them with man-made religions. And when it comes to the end of the road, it doesn't work. That's right. I've seen them when I've heard them scream and fight devils off of them, and supposed to be even deacons, and some of them preachers. That's right. Then I've held them in my arms when they raised their hands and say, "Brother Branham, hold my hands:
 Happy day, happy day,
 Since Jesus washed my sins away!
 He taught me how to watch and pray,
 And live rejoicing every day.

L-33 Why, I tell you, it means something when a man's really borned again of the Spirit of God. He becomes acquainted, a personality of God is in him. And he knows that he's only going from the ridiculous to the sublime. And there's no fear to death. Death hasn't got a fear string tied to it anywhere. My, a man when he's in Christ he's free from death, and sin, and sickness, and sorrows and--and so forth.


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