<TITLE>11. Par 78-82</TITLE>L-78 Here not long ago I seen the great artist that had brought this sculpture, I mean that made this picture of Moses. Can't call his name now. He's a Greek artist: cost him his life. And when he got it so where he thought it was so perfect, he become so thrilled at the image of Moses, so he struck the knee of it, and said, "Speak, Moses." It looked so real. It was so patterned so perfect until it looked so much like Moses to his thought, that he struck it with the hammer to make it have feeling.
Puts me in mind of the church. No matter how much you substitute, how big a congregation you get, how well you sing your songs, how good your congregation dresses, how much you got this, that, or the other, you could strike, beat, or whatever, it'll never take the place of life until Christ comes down in the form of the Holy Ghost into that church and gives it a new experience to be borned again. It'll never take the place of God's Word. God's Word stands alone.

L-80 Micaiah had the Word. He knowed he had the Word. He had the Word written; and he had it by also vision. He knowed what God had said in His Word. He knowed what God said by the vision. They both come together. He knowed it was the truth. Therefore he wasn't afraid.
But this enticing spirit, look what it's done today. To make more church members, to make better church members, it's let down the bars of all the old fashion Holy Ghost teachings. It permitted the men to have social parties with one another out into the basement where they would play games. That'll never help to substitute the upper room where they were praying for the Holy Ghost. It permitted women to come together and tell jokes and then--and have a lot of tommyrot that there's nothing to. That'll never take the place of a prayer meeting. Women, the way they go out and dress today it's, it's a--it's a disgrace.

L-82 I heard a remark that Brother Neville made, said, "The poor American people," said, "they have sent all their clothes overseas." That's right. They're walking around in their underclothes. They... That's right. They must've give them to the missionaries because the missionary--the people--the heathens in the other country's wearing them. These people is doing without them. Look like they like it.
Well, I tell you, there's something has been perverted; that's the preaching of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's demons that strips your clothes. There never was but one person in the Bible that ever tore their clothes off of them, and that was a man that was demon possessed. And he comes in a mild form today, like he's social, like he's good, like it's all right, it's cooler weather, and there... It'll make you cooler if you'll take off your clothes. Men walking up and down the yards half naked, and women likewise. Why, you have... It's getting so there's no more respect than there was with dogs one for the other. What's the matter? I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm only trying to tell you it's demon possession and you're listening to enticing spirits that's telling you that's all right. But it's a lie.
A grain of wheat will only produce wheat. If you're a Christian you won't do that. You can't do it. You just can't do it. You got an intellectual faith and say, "Brother Branham, I believe the Bible." Your life tells that you don't. Amen. Enticing spirits versing the Word of God...


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