<TITLE>08. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Saint John 5:24, Jesus Christ's Word inspired. Though when you believe it... And you cannot believe unless God calls you first. And then it's revealed to you by the Holy Spirit in your heart saying, "Change." Then you're a new creature in Christ Jesus. Old things is passed away, and you--all things have become new. There you are, not tossed about with everything.
If you're tossed from this way and that way, a Methodist one week, and a Baptist the next week, and a Presbyterian the next week, and you running from mission to mission, I got one thing to say: You're not stable yet.
Oh, say, "Brother Branham, but look, I've got a lot of..."
Oh, I can't help it, brother. I have to stay with the Word; that's what the Word says. Up today, and gone tomorrow, backslid the next day, come back the next day and, "Oh, we're out gambling," and everything. For if you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you. Amen.

L-24 It's time Pentecost had a straightening up then, don't you think? Look how worldly they got. So worldly, just like the rest of them. The old generation has died off. And the kids come in to frolic around and put it all out in theologies and everything else, and pattern themselves till people act just like the rest of the world. You are a separated people when you come to God, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, giving praise unto God, the fruits of the lips, giving praise to His Name. Amen. That is right.

L-25 The seal, the seal is a finished work; God has completed His work in that person. Amen.
And the devil's seal is a finished work. The devil has took him over; God couldn't do nothing with him. He knocked at his heart; he wouldn't listen, so he kept turning away. God's not willing that any should perish, long-suffering He sent another Gospel preacher, showed signs and wonders and so forth. The Holy Spirit said, "You better listen to it." He turned his head away for the last time. Then his master stops up his spiritual ear. He become heady, high-minded.
"So I got a doctors degree, or a Ph.D., or LL.D., so why do I have to listen to them crazy people." We'll get to it in a few minutes, and you'll find out that the same thing happened in the early days. Yes, it is.

L-26 "I belong to the best church in the city; I stand with the best class in the city; I got this. I'm so-and-so." Who are you any how? Stick to the Word. Amen. That's all; all made the same. Amen.
Wrap up a hundred dollar suit around a body that's worth eighty-four cents, and act like you're somebody. That's right. The chemical research shows that a man weighing a hundred and fifty pounds, is worth eighty-four cents, the woman less than that. Yes. Now, that's not a joke; that's the truth. And you'll put a hundred dollar suit on it, or a great big fur coat, and walk down the street with your nose stuck up, because you belong to so-and-so's church. Time you hit the sawdust trail back to the altar, got right with God, before Satan seals you out of the Kingdom. Amen. That's the truth; you know that's the truth. Your conscience even tells you that's the truth, unless you've crossed the separating line. You cross the separating, then you've got a--you've been given over to a--a mind of the devil, a delusion, to believe a lie and be damned by it, thinking you're right.


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