<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 And it's terrible if you see the way the--this great nation of ours is sinking and falling, and all the programs and nearly on the radio and everything is some kind of a gag, or--or dirty joke, or some kind of a smutty odd thing being told. And all this old music they have, a boogie woogie, or ever what you call it, and rock and roll, and them evil persons like Seth or Presley, and Arthur Godfrey, and those them who pull them smutty jokes. And you people gum that stuff down you every day on the radio, and then come to the church and expect a blessing. How can you throw stagnated water in a place and expect good things to come out of it? There's a hog in the wallow somewhere. We need a cleaning out time. The church needs to be purged by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that sets your affections on things above and the coming of the Lord.

L-22 Now, them people live their lives. God have mercy on them. I'm not making light of them or anything, but I'm only trying to press a mark for the church. No wonder we can't have revival like we ought to. No wonder Billy Graham was crying the other night about not being able to see a revival in this time.
Brother, they need a cleaning up from the pulpit plumb into the--the janitor's room in the churches through the land is what we need, 'fore the Holy Spirit can take place. God's a holy God. That's right. And now, I don't believe that you'd go to heaven on your holiness, but you go to heaven on His holiness. But it's the works that you do prove what's in you. That's right. You love Him and God wants you to love Him.
And if you love Him, you'll worship Him and you'll love Him. What's in your heart, that's where you love, what you love. Where your treasures is, there your heart is also. It's a wonderful thing.

L-23 Like I said to my wife, "What's that--it's a case of love." Now, when I go overseas, I don't say, "Now, wait a minute, Mrs. Branham. I'm going to lay some law down to you now. I'm going overseas, and thou shalt not have any other husbands. And don't you go to flirting with any other man," and all these things.
Now, when she said, "Now, just a minute, young man, and I want to give you some orders. And you're not taking any women out while you're gone and..." Why, that... Wouldn't that be a life to live? I'd hate to trust her like that. That's right. And I guess she'd hate to trust me.
But we love one another. When I get ready to leave, we kneel down in the floor and offer thanks to God for the privilege that we have of going in the Gospel and to be in the work of the Lord. And I ask God to bless my little children and my wife and take care of them; we raised up, and I kiss her good-bye. Say, "Good-bye, sweetheart, see you when I come back. Be praying for me."
She said, "I will, Billy." That settles it.

L-24 Well, if I ever--I don't care who it was. If while I--if I even thought that I could as to go out with someone else and get by with it, I--if I knowed she'd forgive me for it; I wouldn't do it. I love her too much. I think too much of her to hurt her. She'd forgive me, but it would hurt her.
Well, that's just human love. How much more it is when you love the Lord Jesus? He don't have--you won't stay home and listen to these things. You love Him. You wouldn't hurt Him. Why, everything you want to do is to do something for Him, to--'cause you love Him. Though you say, "He forgive me for it." That's right. He might forgive you, but if you really love Him, you don't want to do it.


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