<TITLE>13. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 Women, you don't want to do that. But it's the devil in you making you do that. You're a slave to it. You're a drinking from the devil's stagnated cistern, because you've rejected to drink from the fountain that never runs dry. You've rejected the Tree of Life. You're going after the way of Cain and will perish in the gainsaying of Korah. Come out of it while your ear is open to the truth. Be separated, borned again. That's hard, but it's truth.
Now, brother... "How can I escape it," you say? The time is gone. We'll pick up from here, from the sealing of that ear.
You see how it makes them act? When a person comes to the altar, and say, "Brother Branham, oh, hallelujah. I got the Holy Ghost; I got this." They might speak in tongues; they might jump; they might shout. If their life don't change, there's some--no life happened in here. It's the same old life.
If you could transfer the life out of a pear tree into an apple tree, it'd bear pears as certain as I'm standing here. Its life shows what it is. Decency...

L-42 And God's worked miracles. I'm looking setting there Brother Coate, setting there, right there and when... He don't know this. But a certain-certain person told me that man ain't got but just a few days to live with a cancer. There he is setting there, healed this morning, around in the building... Different people across the nation... What is it? It's God working signs and wonders.
Go into Africa, preach, thousands of them take off their paints and put on their clothes and things and start acting like ladies and gentlemen. But America, oh, no, you got a television to look at. You've got the old vulgar programs, not censored on the tel--radio. Radio and television's all right if it had the right thing. It could be a means of the spreading of the Gospel. But you set and you take your kids and stick their head into it. And the first thing you know, here they are out little neurotics and everything else, acting and impersonating. Why, it's a shame. That your cistern that you're drinking from. Why don't you close your eyes to that and look up towards Cavalry and say, "O God, fill my perishing soul."

L-43 Listen. You can do without food a long time. But you can't go without drinking. Eighty percent of your body's made of water. The first thing God ever moved on, the Spirit of God ever moved on was the waters. And you can't go without water. And if your soul is hungering to worship... Listen, mister, Pentecost, and Pilgrim Holiness, and Presbyterian, Baptist, whoever you are (See?), if you're hungering and you're thirsting, satisfy your thirst with Christ. And make Christ your God. Don't turn around and drink from these old stagnated cisterns.
The first thing you know, you may act ever so religious, but your ears are sealed to the truth. And do you remember, they would be so close till it deceive the very elect? And to reject the Gospel is to be sealed with the mark of the beast. God marks you. And now, what does it mean it was in? In your head. Your ear's on your head too. What is it? Your head is your knowledge. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing not some church rule, but the Word of God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Then if you reject that, what happens? You're sealed...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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