<TITLE>16. Par 110-110</TITLE>L-110 The church comes in and adopts other things. They have to have a little party where they all lay on the beach to have recreation: a card party to get-together for fellowship. That's right, have a dance sometime at one of the member's house, sometimes in the church basement. A dance, adopting, trying to get something to satisfy, what's the matter? They're a bunch of pigs anyhow. They're pigs to begin with. If it ever come in contact with Christ, they'd have so much joy those things would be deader than midnight to them. Gospel, drunk on the Spirit, joy unspeakable and full of glory...
Don't condemn the sinner. Have mercy on him. Let him go ahead and smoke his pipe. Let him drink his liquor. Let him have his card parties; that's his pleasure. Don't blame him. Coming home and everything, tired and wore out, he wants some pleasure. The thing for you to do is live such a godly life that you can prove to him that the Gospel holds ten thousand times more than that for him.
And if he dies in that state he'll go to hell on his liquor. That's the devils intoxication. If he dies dragging on that old pipe, God's his Judge. If he dies going out here dancing and running around with immoral clothes on, God's their Judge. But there's one thing, if you die under the anointing power of the Holy Ghost like Stephen did when he looked up in the face of God, said, "I see heavens opened and Jesus standing at the right hand." You are heaven-bound like a martin to its box. Amen.
111a      Enticing spirits versing the Word of God. Let loose; let go. "How do you do it, Brother Branham?" Just let go; that's all you have to do. Take God's Word. Don't try to work up nothing. Don't get down at the altar and beat and holler, "Lord, give me the Holy Ghost. Lord, give me the Holy Ghost." He ain't coming with you beating on that altar. That don't do you no good. No, that ain't the way He comes. It's taking Him at His Word.
Look at Peter. Peter was in a trouble, looked like he was going to die. And he seen the Lord come walking on the water, and he said, "Lord, if that be You, bid me come."
The Lord said, "Come on."
Now, if Peter said, "Now, wait a minute, Lord, let me go on a forty day fast to see if I can walk on that water or not. O Lord, let me get enough Spirit on me that I can dance in the Spirit and speak in tongues in this boat, then I can step out." No, sir. He took God at His Word, let loose, and let go. God took him through.
111b      What if God met Moses and He said, "Moses go down there into the Egypt and tell Pharaoh, "Let My people go."
What if Moses said, "Let me go on a forty day fast first and see if I got faith enough to obey You, God. Give me something, some or another, Lord, let me tell you something. Let me see if I get in the Spirit first."
Moses never asked no questions. He just took God at His Word and took off. That's the way you have to do it. Take God at His Word. Then you know, you'll be able to do it. He didn't wait till something else taken place, he just went ahead and done it.
111c      What about Elijah when he come down off of Mount Carmel? Been up there for a long time, and he met a poor old widow woman, she was a--she was an alien, a Gentile. And when he met her down there, she was picking up some sticks in the yard. And God told him to go down there to that widows house. What a place for the preacher to go. Here he goes down there to the widow's house, and what she did? She had two sticks. Said, "What are you doing?"
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