<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Here not long ago, I was in a meeting where there's supposed to be holiness people, sanctified holiness people. And a minister come along, he said, "I want to introduce you to my wife."
I said, "Thank you." And he give me that woman, and she... I shook her hand. She had great big long things hanging down like this, come plumb to her shoulders. A little old... About enough clothes on to wad a musket shotgun, and all kinds of paint all over her face. That's right.
He said, "This is my wife."
I said, "Is she a Christian?"
"Oh," he said, "Brother Branham, she's a saint."
You know what I said? Not for a joke, I said, "She looks like a hain't to me, instead of a saint." I said, "But I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but what she need is a good old fashion Calvary's washing." Hallelujah.
That's what the Church needs today. Yes, sir. That might make you a little bit sick, but it won't do you no good if it don't. See?

L-30 I was a little boy, lived out on a farm. We didn't have much to eat. We'd bake our corn pone in a--up in the south there, and black-eyed peas and--and would use bacon grease, where you just rendered out the lard out of the bacon grease, and skins, where they'd give us at the grocery store. A big bunch of little children, ten of them, we had a hard time.
And every Saturday night, we'd have to take a bath in the old washtub, and take a dose of castor oil. And my mother... I just--I can't even stand the stuff yet. So, I'd have to hold my nose. And I'd say, "Mama, it just makes me so sick I can't stand it."
She said, "Honey, if it doesn't make you sick, it doesn't do you any good." So, maybe I'll tie that to this tonight. If it doesn't make you right good and sick, it won't do you any good. It'll help your spiritual digesting, give you an old fashioned cleaning up, so you can have a spiritual, gastronomical jubilee some of these times. Amen. And you know that's the Gospel truth.

L-31 What we need today is a good old fashion Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the Church, that'll shake the subtites of the--hell down into the devil's eye, and call black black and white white.
Give us some men, not compromisers, but will stand up and preach the Gospel in its fullness, in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. What we need today... It's better than all the theology that can be hatched up by man.
Excuse me, I slobber a little. I've been eating a lot of new grapes; I've been over in Canaan. And them grapes cause you to slobber a lot.
But remember, brother, let me tell you. What we need tonight, is the Gospel preached in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Brother, it'll clean you as sure as the world. It'll make you act different.

L-32 In my country, we got oak trees. And when springtime comes on... All them little old scrub oaks hold their leaves, and I don't have to go out and pick off the leaves, so the new ones will come on. Just let the new life come up, the new leaf take cares itself. When new life comes up, the old leaf drops off.
And brother, I'm not a Nazarene preacher that has an--a measuring stick to the Nazarene churches, or to the Pilgrim Holiness, or to the Pentecostals. I say let a man or woman get right with God, and these other things will take place themselves. And if they don't, it shows something is wrong down here. Whew. That was hard. But that's good. Amen. I don't know what's the matter with me.


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