<TITLE>15. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 So it isn't some law that I have to preach the Gospel; isn't some law that I have to do this; it's because I love Him so much. I just love to do it. And if you love Him like that... As long as I love my wife like that, she don't have to never worry. And as long as she loves me like that, she don't have to worry.
We don't go around to one another, "Now," she'd say, "now listen here Mr. Branham, tell you something right now. You're going away on this trip; I'm going to lay the law right down to you. Don't you run around on me, young man. Huh-uh. Don't you do that."
Well, after she gets done laying down the law, then I turn back and I say, "Now, my fair lady, let me tell you something. While I'm gone, don't you have no other husbands. Don't you do this and don't you do that." Well, we don't say that. Sure, I just love her so much, my trust her then. And she just loves me so much, it's the same way. So we... And I say, "Good-bye sweetheart; keep praying for me."
"All right, dear, I'll be praying for you all the time. Hurry back."
"All right." That's all of it. See. She ain't got no big law, "You have to come and be this a way, and sprinkled, and confirmed, and brought to this, and that, and these, and that, and all these different orders, and things like that. If you don't dance with your feet crossed this a way, it ain't right; you have to dance with your feet crossed this a way.

L-51 A young lady come to me here some time ago when women wore those skirts that they call "scandal skirts." And she come to me, and she said, "Brother Branham, I want to ask you something."
And I said, "Yes ma'am, sister."
She said, "Do think it's wrong for a Christian girl to wear scandal skirt?" Said, "Do you think I..."
I said, "What in the world does a Christian girl need with a scandal skirt?" If she's a Christian, she'll be so far away from that thing, until, why, it'll be as dead to her as... Her love is for Christ and not to be a "scandaler." That's right. That scorches the shorts, don't it? That's right.

L-52 If you love the Lord, you'd be doing something else besides that. Now you can preach all the liberation of women or men, what you want to, but that'll never change the Bible. God's Word is true, and that's to you Pentecostal people too. Yes, sir. Oh, you let down the bars some way, something happened.
Used to be it wasn't the way it is now. It just because the weakness of the pulpit and just because you got mixed up in things. If the Holy Ghost taught you better back then, your mammy, and everything, and then you start doing this today, the Holy Ghost don't change. It's just the same every time, every time, every time.
You know what I'm beginning to think: that a lot of times people get one another's ghost, instead of the Holy Ghost. You watch them the way they act. You go into a church where the--the pastor is--is kind of a flighty, wild fired up and Moabite, watch the congregation be the same thing.
Brother, I'm telling you it behooves you to get down and pray to God until that real Christian spirit moves into your heart and it settles all problems. You know the Bible said, "There'd be a famine in the last days, not for bread and water alone, but for hearing of the Word of God." That's right. And that's as true as it could be, friend. It's a shame.


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