<TITLE>11. Par 102-111</TITLE>L-102 Someone said, not long ago, said, "But, Brother Branham..." This person was real sincere, what the person was living in, living in sin. "Oh," said, "I'm sincere. I believe the Lord Jesus Christ."
I said, "If you're sincere, then prove you're sincere. Give up the sin you're living in."
"Oh," said, "you see, there's so much involved."
I said, "I thought you was sincere."
He said, "Well, I've got this to do. I've got that to do."
The most vital thing that you can do is come to Jesus Christ, no matter what you got to do. What's any more important than--than being born again?

L-105 Every one of you know that someday you'll be a skull and a pile of bones laying underneath some of this clay around here. Just as sure as you're setting here tonight, you're headed towards that. That's right. How sincere should you be then? You get what I mean? Maybe you might start in an hour from now. This time next year there may not be even a piece of flesh on your bones in the next twelve months. They may not be a speck of life in your body in the next twenty-five minutes. And then from that time, till endless ages cease to be, will never be... The state that you go in, that's the state you'll be forever.
So if you are lukewarm, brother, that's dangerous place you could stand, is a lukewarm condition. Jesus said, "Either be hot or be cold. Either be for Me with all your heart, or be against Me." If you just live a pretty good life, that'll never count. Your self-righteous rags will never stand in the day of judgment. That's right.

L-107 Say, "Well, I belong to church." That has nothing to do with It. I believe you should belong to church. That's all right. But that has nothing to do with salvation.
Just like I said this morning, the man went everywhere, trying to find Jesus Christ; He was already in his heart. Those things that he done, shouting and speaking with tongues, and so forth, them things are all right, but that's the attributes of Christ being in there first. See? You must get Christ here first, then them things will take place. But you can do that without having Christ, and then what kind of a fix are you in?

L-109 Now, I've seen heathens shout. That's right. I've seen people go around and perform such funny-looking things, till you'd--you can believe anything. Pour a rope out of a sack, like that, do some hocus-pocus over it, and the rope stand right straight up in the air. Take a big cobra, and him striking, whether he's got fangs or not; throw a rag out there, and watch his fangs hang in the rags. Go around there, and play a little music over him, and chant, and roll him around his neck. And that cobra just looking at him, act like he's going to strike, and then hold back. Don't get near him; he'd kill you.
And I've seen them stand out there and walk through beds of fire, when the coals was burnt down. Take off what they had on, walk right down through those fire of coals without doing anything, no harm at all. Go into a deep den, beat up, full of glass, and sticking up like that; run and make a big jump in it, lay down and roll over and over and over. And get up, with not a cut on them, jump back out. That's faith. But, brother, that ain't salvation. No, sir. Oh, such, the cunning ways the devil has to deceive people.

L-111 Salvation is an individual affair with God Almighty, through Jesus Christ the Lord.
Oh, what we need tonight, friends, is one of the old fashion meetings we used to have years ago, to sweep the whole nation, where people went home, they straightened up their home. They taken the--the evils out of their home. They stopped all their nonsense around home. Each and every home, they had it straight on the line. And they quit their meanness. They quit their cheating. They quit their lying. They lived honest and soberly with one another, lived like Christians ought to. That's the kind of religion.


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