<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Now, to try to place this new program, this new deal that God has with the church that was presented at Pentecost. Not an intellectual at all, but a hundred and twenty fishermen, tentmakers, and housewives went up in the upper room and waited until God's prophecy was fulfilled, and they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus said, "Stop your preaching; don't go any further. Don't do anything more about it, but wait at the city of Jerusalem until, until you're endued with power from on high." Not until you have received your B.A., or your D.D., or whatever it may be, until you have become a Ph.D., psychology, not and it become--you become an intellectual teacher, but wait until you get your diploma, not wait until you have been given a degree, but until you're endued with power from on high, not from the school, but from on high, "Then you shall be My witnesses, both in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the utmost parts of the world." His last commission was into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned, and (conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name shall they cast out devils, and they shall speak with new tongues, or if they should drink a deadly thing, or take up the serpent it would not harm them. And if they should lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover."
In similar such as that, was to be the sign of the believer instead of the educated and intellectual, because the intellectual cannot produce that.

L-32 Now, we find out then to take... He was going to make a new church. He didn't want... You can't polish up the old church. You only give it a facelift, and it doesn't do any good. It is a new heart. "I'll take the old stony heart away." Not you'll throw it away, but "I'll take it away." Do you see the difference? It's a act of grace. "And I will..."
And you people, Baptist, and you Presbyterian, who preach eternal security and act like the world, shame on you. What are you preaching? Certainly.

L-33 "I will take the old stony heart out and put a fleshly heart in." Now, watch. He said He would do that. You can't put that--talk that in the old intellectual church.
And that's why America is in the condition it is today, because it's been calloused with the old intellectual idea. That's the reason that it has to go forth, and--and it has to have a--every person sign papers, and so forth for it's little Hollywood revival that's coming. And all of them come out like glamor girls and boys, and put on their little program. And when they leave, they go back and find out that about ninety percent that accepted Christ as Saviour, they're not there any more. What's the matter? It wasn't a revival. It was an intellectual illusion. That's right.

L-34 It only presented something as the American people finally clapped their hands [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] and--and a Holly--a television article. We have turned it into a--a television... The pulpit has been brought into a Hollywood fashion box. When the old fashion Gospel preacher, that used to drink cistern water and preach all night by a lamplight, it's changed. But we have changed it, and that's why we've got the intellectual group.
And how are you ever, in a place where every home is televised with "Who Loves Lucy," and all these other ungodly programs over the air, and in the television, and such as that, how are we ever going to present this new Gospel the way that Christ told us to do, into such as that? If the mind still remains carnal, it'll run through fantastics and fanaticism. It'll bypass the Word of God and run off into oil drippings and everything else. So how are you going to stop it? The Bible said it would be that way, so you can't stop it. That's right. God said it would be that way. Now where we going?


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