<TITLE>06. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 What's the matter with the Pentecostal church today, we live too close to Hollywood; we got too much of Hollywood evangelism instead of the old fashion type that digs down and cleans up and boils out, gets men and women right with God. You know that's right. That's true. I'm--I'm just the old fashion kind that likes the old fashion religion. That's the way I got it, down at the altar with somebody beating me in the back till I come through. That's what we need again today instead of amongst this dry-eyed repentance and putting their name on the church book. That's right. Yes, sir.
And there... But when setting back in that time, when I can see Eve in her beauty as she set there, they didn't know what sin was. Then Adam, looking at her, touching her flesh, "Why," he said, "she's flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone." He took her by the arm, walking down through the garden. The winds blew, and she said, "Oh, dear, that wind."
He said, "Peace." The wind stopped. Where is man fallen?
She said, "Oh, Adam, if this tree here was just setting over here, wouldn't it look much prettier?"

L-21 "Be thou plucked up and cast over here." And it did it. The second Adam proved it could be done. Amen. That's right. He controlled all nature. It was given into Adam's hands to control all nature. And when Adam's redeemed back again to God the way he should be, and have faith in God, he will do it again too. Amen. 'Cause it lays in Adam's hand. Christ was that link that linked man together.
Then when I see when sin come... We won't go into that in detail. I have my belief where it come from. You can have yours. But as soon as they realized they had sinned, it separated themselves from God. They had went in behind there. We had fig leaves on to make them a aprons. They realized that that fig leaf religion didn't work when it comes to meet God.

L-22 So will man today with a self-made religion find out it won't work; it takes the Blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse us from all sin and to make us a new creature.
Then I see him there then as they walked out, tried to come out. They found out when they had to come face it; they couldn't do it. God said, "Who told you you was naked?"
And then they begin to pass it one to the other. "The woman Thou givest me."
And "The serpent beguiled me."

L-23 But God went out and got some skins. He must have killed some sheep, an innocent substitute. Throwed it in there, and they wrapped these sheepskins around them, and here they come out to face God.
Now, I can see them standing there, and Adam, that great manly shoulders, the blood off them sheepskins running down his legs. I can see Eve standing there in her beautiful form, and all this blood running over now, Adam a crying, Eve a crying, mixing with tears as it run down their bosoms like that, Eve leaning over on his shoulder. And God, "Depart out of My Presence." He couldn't stand it.

L-24 But when His children went to walk away... Let's take a little drama here for a minute. I can hear something going like this. [Brother Branham claps three times--Ed.] What is it? It's the old bloody sheepskins beating against Adam's big manly legs as he went walking out of the Presence of God. God couldn't stand it. All that great eternity there, come down to four letters, l-o-v-e. God so loved, He couldn't see His children go out in that kind of a condition, separating from Him. He stopped and said, "Wait a minute. I'll but enmity between your seed and the serpent's seed," promising a Saviour.
Let's turn our camera now four thousand years later. There's a great carrying on in Jerusalem. We're setting in a building saying, and we say, "What is all that noise about? Where did it come from?"
Look out, somebody say, "Well, there's a holy-roller out there. They're going to crucify Him this morning. He's done nothing but just tear up the churches around here and everything. So they're going to crucify Him."


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