<TITLE>04. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 You know they used to say that the devil went out of fashion, but he didn't go out of business. That's right. He's still in business, and he's just so much shrewder now than he used to be; in the ways that people get shrewd he does too; and he just slips in right in. See?
Brother, I tell you if you ever slip for cover, you do it now, and that's right. You get under the Blood of Jesus Christ. It's a disgrace how that all such things as we have and our world in it's condition today is eighty percent of it come right out of Hollywood, and yet that's the example of the world. That's where the pace is set for all the modern world, is out of Hollywood.

L-12 Now, I don't say everything in Hollywood is polluted. I had some men at my house here not long ago the Westminsters Film Company, who's made--come up there to make a picture. Ask me permit if they could do it, and come to the meetings, they'd put it on the screen, called the "Twentieth Century Prophet," and they're going into Palestine to set up the meeting over there. And those fellow that I met is a group that made this picture, "Samson and Delilah," and so forth, and they were every one... First thing they did when they walked in, before they asked me the question, they said, "Can we kneel and have prayer?" A group of gentlemen.
I asked a question, I said, "And you all from Hollywood?"
"Yes, sir." And they introduced theirselves.
I said, "Well, what's your--what's your business?" House was full of people to be prayed for.

L-13 They said, "Reverend Branham, we--we just come to ask you," and they begin to present their--their problem and what they wanted. They had all them trucks and lights and things, like to have scared my wife to death when she saw all that stuff coming up out there like that.
They come in and wanted to paint them all up. My wife never wore make-up in her life, so she didn't want none of that stuff. So--so I said, "Well, shoot the pictures if you want to. It doesn't matter to me."
Said, "What about the remunerations?"
I said, "Turn it in to foreign missions, every bit of it, and give it to missionaries to go overseas or something with. For myself, I don't want none of it." I said, "I wouldn't have it."

L-14 Now, the thing it is ever-where you go, you're going to find good and bad. I don't care where you go, you're going to find it. You can go down in (I forget) in the roadhouses or wherever you want to go, you'll find good and bad; but the thing of it is, is they're fallen, every man. We don't want to see no one lost, but they're fallen, and they won't stand still to listen to the grace of God that can lift them up, because...
You know where it started from, friend? Now, my minister brothers, you all excuse this expression. I don't mean it to you, but what's got the nation in the place it is today, it started from the pulpit. They let down the bars.

L-15 They used to have an old Methodist preacher, used to come, old Brother Kelly and Sister Kelly, they used to sing a little song, "We let down the bars; we let the bars; we compromised with sin. We let down the bars; the sheep got out; but how did the goats get in?" You let down the bars, that's why the goats got in. Exactly.
You begin to take in anything in the church that was well-dressed, and could pay good in the church, and you taken them in, put them on the church book. You let the women begin to strip themselves, and pattern after Hollywood, and chop off their hair, and put manicure on their face or ever what that stuff is, and--and daub them face all up, and everything like that, and then still call themselves Christians and live right along.


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