<TITLE>15. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 But what is unrighteousness? It's righteousness perverted. Certainly, the devil has a false thing. What is an old fortuneteller out on the street, a devil possessed person? It's a prophet perverted. He can only take something of God and pervert it. But we've been taught against those things. And the devil just cabbages on them. But when we're taught in the line of the Bible, then the Holy Spirit takes it and places it into the church. Do you see?
If you won't accept righteousness, then unrighteousness will take over. If you won't receive Christ, the world will take you. You can't go out that door the same person you was coming in here. You can't be. The Holy Spirit brooding, wooing, calling, "Oh, if you'll come, I'll take away that stony heart. If you'll come, I'll place a new spirit in you; and if you'll come, I'll come into this new spirit."

L-51 Then when the devil comes back, what does he find? He finds his old tin can alley. God sent His big bulldozer down and cut the thing all to pieces, and bulldozed it up, and scraped it all off, and a Hallelujah Avenue is built there. It ain't the same place. There's a big modern home built there with... The Holy Spirit has brooded, big beautiful flowers of salvation standing up. You don't have to try to impersonate anything. It's a new heart. It's a new dwelling place. It's a new spirit. Everything is new.
How can the devil walk back there and expect the old card table and cigars and the old fussing, fighting, stewing, everything that you had in you. When he walks back, he finds God took His bulldozer, and run the whole thing out, and turned the whole ground upside down, made a big terrace, and put a beautiful home, and moved in Hisself. Hallelujah. Amen.
Oh, I feel--I feel religious. The Holy Spirit turns over the old tin can alley, and dumps you upside down, sweeps the devils stuff out of there, and creates a new heart and a new life. Not only that, but He moves in to see that everything goes all right. Glory to God. He has the care-takers, the Angels that prunes the trees. My, my. Oh, I wish I was twice my size. Think of it, what He does, brother, sister.

L-52 Today there is so much based upon intellectual. There's so much based in Pentecostal, upon fantastics, upon emotions. Now, don't take a substitute when Pentecostal skies are loaded with the real thing. Don't take some little emotions, some little work up, some little oil falling from your hands, or a bloody face, don't take these little emotions when the whole skies of God is full of real genuine Pentecostal blessings. He will give you a new heart, a new spirit, and put His Spirit in you.

L-53 Let us pray. And with our heads bowed and your eyes closed... You know which way you're pointed now? From where you moved out of, the earth. Do you know which way you're going? Right back the way you got your head bowed, right back to the dust. But did you know, that dust that you're made out of was laying here on the earth when God created the earth? He created you with the earth. You're part of the earth, but the thing is in you is a spirit; it's a life. If it's old and stony, it's of the world by nature.
Now, do you want a new heart? You want a new spirit? And do you want His Spirit to come into yours and to operate you, you not try to tell Him what to do and you have your own thoughts of things; you just take what He wants. And you want Him to go to brooding to you? "Yes, Brother Branham."
Well, that's Him brooding at your heart right now. "It's Me, child. It's Me." I'm standing here. I don't want you to perish. Oh, Jesus our Lord died that you wouldn't perish. But if you continue in the way you are, you're going to perish. You can't raise up. There's nothing in you to raise you. The Holy Spirit you rejected, He can't brood in the last days. You crossed the line. Oh, come back quickly, right quick, before you get too far away.


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