<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 We have this blessed assurance that Jesus loves us. Because our spirit bears record with His Spirit that we are sons and daughters of God. How the Lord has did this great thing for us. And we see these truths.
Oh, brother, when I see this, it shakes me. We coming on down here in the Gospel tonight, teaching a little farther, down at the 26th verse of the same chapter. Now, look. When truth is presented, men wonder...
I've heard people say, a lot of time, "What is the--the unpardonable sin, Brother Branham?" My mother used to tell me that it was a woman that would take the life of a baby before it was born, abortion case. Well, I... She said, "She has done something. She didn't give the little fellow a chance to live." Well, that's awful. I'll admit that.

L-26 Here not long ago, I met a woman that had committed some of those cases, practicing birth control. That's the disgrace in America. This may kindly singe you a little bit, but watch it. What they'll do today, they used to... They make fun of a man that's got four or five, six, seven children; say, "It's a disgrace." It used to not be a disgrace. No.
Today we think if a woman--some woman look at a woman that can't go out to the card parties and things because she's supposed to stay home and take care of her baby, why, they think that she is deprived something. Brother, she's done the duty that God told her to do. Oh, they'll...
These American people will practice birth control, and give a hundred dollars for a little old snotty-nosed dog, and pack it around, and give it the love of a baby. It's a disgrace. Excuse that expression. But that's right. Yes, it is. You know that's the truth. Will lead him down the street with a little jacket on him, when he is nothing but a dog. That's right.
But you wouldn't have the baby. Because you're afraid you would deprive yourself of something. God commissioned women to bring forth children. That's exactly right. It used to be it was a wonderful thing. Nowadays, it's a disgrace. Too much time. That's right. You have to have time for your social life, you've got to go out to gatherings. You've got to do this, got to go at the card party.

L-27 What the trouble of it is today, we need some old fashion mothers like we used to have. That may sound a little flat. Up in Kentucky, they told me one time, said, "Brother Billy, ain't you from up in Kentucky?"
Said, "Yes."
"There's where the illiterate people live."
And I said, "That's right. I'm one of them."
But I want to tell you something. You take one of them old mammys up there, might not know how to... all the mathematics and so forth, might--she might not have her name in the Who's Who here on earth. But I just imagine she's got her name in Who's Who up there. That's right. Let her daughter stay out all night and come in the next morning with her make-up all over her face and her hair twisted sideways, out drunk somewhere. You know what she would do? She would teach her a lesson with a barrel slat. That's right.

L-28 But you're afraid to say anything to them. Oh, it's a disgrace how the bars has been let down. Brother Smith, you won't--might not love me after this, but I feeled there's something. Look. Look.
Here not long ago, it was a disgrace in Pentecostal women... Methodist women used to be that way. Why, you know John Smith, before he died, preached a short sermon of four hours when they had to pack him to the platform? "Why," he said, "such a disgrace. Even the Methodist daughters are wearing jewelry on their hands." What would he think now of them wearing shorts and bathing suits (See?), singing in the choir and everything.
Brother, I tell you the house of God needs a cleaning up from the basement plumb to the pulpit. That's exactly right. It used to be a disgrace for the women to cut their hair. "They just don't do that no more. You know, it's all right now."


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