<TITLE>10. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 Where God is, Supernatural takes place, for He is Supernatural. That's the reason people turn up their nose and walk away when you talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I'll admit I've seen a lot of nonsense. I've seen a lot of bogus dollars too. But that don't say there isn't a genuine one. It only means that there is a real one. Certainly. It's only a milepost pointing to a real. When you see some person impersonating...
In the India here with these brethren that's setting on the platform. I had the privilege of meeting them awhile ago. In their country, you can find tourists, people out there clowning for tourists, rolling on spikes, and wanting to walk through fire and--and do everything like that. It's a hypocrite. That's all.

L-45 Just remember that back in the interior there somewhere, somebody is beating himself up and punishing himself, trying to appease a god somewhere. When we see some people go into a church and supposed to be Christians, and going out and living all kinds of lives, and not paying their debts, and treating their neighbor, and fussing, and fighting. What is it? They... And still going to church... They're only impersonating a genuine Holy Ghost article that's setting there somewhere.
I've seen people jump up-and-down and speak in tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide; walk right out and it was dangerous to be around them. That's right. What does it mean? There's a real article somewhere. Amen. Don't let the scarecrow bother you. That's right. If there's a scarecrow, that only means there's something good behind it. That's right.

L-46 One time, I was planting some butter beans, and a little old ground hog (a woodchuck, you'd call it here, I suppose) run out and eat them up as fast as I could plant them. I didn't want to shoot the little fellow. So I went and got me a sack and drawed a great, big picture, big ears on it and put me some butter beans in it and tied it on a stick and I got off with my glasses to watch him.
Here he come out of the hole and run down to get the butter beans. He stopped and looked at that sack, looked it over a few times. The little fellow set up and looked at it, backed off. He'd jump at it and it'd jump back, trying to find out what it would do. After while, the wind blowed. And it rattled, 'cause I had some beans inside of it. Away he took and then he stopped and looked back. He got to thinking, "That was just a rattle." He come up close to it, and smacked it with his paw, and he seen this rattle, went right on behind it, and started eating beans.
Surely, you've got the gumption of a woodchuck, surely. When you see all these counterfeits and bogus, remember, but behind there, there's a genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit; there's a real article of God. That's right.

L-47 Yes, there he come. Watch him, now. He was a lamb laying upon the block shorn. We are His lambs. You would say now, "You said the other night, Brother Branham, that Christians would stay home to see, 'Who went with Lucy or we love Lucy,' or some kind of a program like, that all people stay home on Wednesday nights to see and--and these other comedians and so forth like that and how you were speaking of that... Now, Brother Branham, that's our American privilege." That's right. That's exactly right. But are you willing to forfeit it for God? Uh-huh.
I got after you women about bobbing your hair, and walking out here, you that's supposed to be Christians, and dress and look like some flapper coming down the street. That's right. I believe in the old fashion, sassafras, home-spun, Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ that cleans you up. That's right.


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