<TITLE>10. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 The very next meeting we went to, I went down to a big tent, three or four or five times this size I guess, filled up full of people. I walked up on the platform with this minister, and he said, "This is the state superintendent, or ever what it is, general overseer of the certain big denominational church."
I said, "How do you do, sir?" And I shook his hand.
He said, "Mr. Branham, I want you to meet my wife."
And there she stood there. I never seen such a looking thing in my life. She had her hair all cut real short on a boyish bob, and curled up on the outside. She had makeup so thick on her mouth, and a dress that she could've poured in. I never seen such a outfit in my life, and there she was standing there, and big long fingernails out like that, looked like she'd been bleeding on her fingers. And I never seen such a looking thing in my life.
And I said, "Is your wife a Christian?"
He said, "Oh, yes. She's a saint."
I said, "She looks to me like she's a hain't, sir, in the way she looks, all that blue and stuff on her eyes and things." What's the matter?

L-46 They got away from the old landmark. You got away from the Bible. You got away from leading of the Holy Ghost and went out like the rest of them did. That's exactly what's the matter.
Now, you think that preacher could've preached against it? The other minister that was with me, not the one that told me this, but the other man, another man was with me which was his brother-in-law, his wife jumped all over him when we went up to the Antler's Hotel, to go up there to eat."
She said, "Listen, Brother Branham, you'll ruin your ministry."
I said, "I want to ask you something, lady. When I... My ministry will be ruined by preaching the Gospel, let it be ruined."

L-47 That's what I said about an old colored man one time. They said, "Now, looky here, Sambo, I want to tell you. Don't you preach that old hell fire and brimstone and baptism of the Holy Ghost." Said, "It'll sure ruin your church if you do it."
He said, "Listen, boss, any church that's ever ruined by preaching hell fire and brimstone and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you let me know where that church is, won't you, boss?" Said, "I'll tell you what I want to do. I want to climb up on the outside and lay my big black hand upon its tower and say, 'Blessed is the dead that die in the Lord, from henceforth they'll rest in the grave.'" That's right.
You never afraid it's going to hurt anything. You might hurt sin but you'll never hurt righteousness by preaching righteousness.

L-48 Led by the Holy Spirit, sons and daughters of God, led by the Spirit of God...
Abraham didn't care what anybody else said. He said, "Now, you separate yourself."
So he got his little group together and his wife, and went out not knowing where he was going. Amen. What do you care where you're going? Just keep going.
"Brother Branham, you... Well, where does It lead to?" Just keep on walking. He was led by the Spirit of God, and men, great men are always... You don't have to question God what it's all about and set down and figure it all up in science and how does the spirit of supernatural Being come and get into us.

L-49 Well, that's like the Hottentots. Down in Africa they call the word, the unseen, the--the "Amoya," the wind. Said, "You worship the God which is a force that you don't see." They've got to see something before they worship it. That's idolatry.
God is a Spirit. They that worship Him, worship Him in Spirit and Truth, and are led by the same Spirit. Hallelujah.
Abraham, Moses--Moses was a man of God led by the Spirit of God. Oh, he wanted to lead himself one time. He got all the mathematics and militaryism all in his mind. He knowed what a great man he was, so he thought he could go right out and do it himself, but he found himself a failure.
Every technique he started was wrong. He slew a man. That's the first thing the military treats you, kill somebody, teaches. Go kill somebody else. All right. That was his tactic.


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