<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Along come the new issue, the Oneness. They started baptizing in Jesus Name. That was all right; that's in the Bible. But what happened? You made a issue out of it, and where are you at tonight? On the sidelines too. Because you didn't hold the torchlight you organized, and put a period after that, and that settled it.
God started a move of Divine healing out of the interdenominationals, and what's happened tonight? Brother, they made a issue out of it, and now they've built their ministry upon fantastics, and it's got to a place where it's all kinds of sensations. I'm going over to the West Coast; I hope it never hits me. But, oh, mercy, everything that you could think of in the almanac, and not in God's Bible, all kinds of isms, and fantastics, and the Pentecostal move has become faced down on little isms and emotions. And God will jerk the torchlight off of Divine healing, for He can't place any real thing on nothing, got no foundation. God's Word is His foundation.

L-23 My friend, no wonder Pentecostal people are losing out. You once waved the torchlight a few years ago, but there's just two factions left. One of them has gone off to a big bunch of starched rituals. All you do is have a little, like a Presbyterian, go to the church and have to hurry home at night to stick your head in the television to see, "Who Loves Susie." You know that's right.
And you've got nothing but baseball playing, soup suppers, and everything else in your church. And you know that's true. And God could never base, and place in that anything else but confusion. And the other side has went off on the deep end to a bunch of everything: isms, addicts, fanatics, radics, everything else that they could find in the way of sensation, emotions. If the devil can't get you to see a truth, he will push you off on the deep end somewhere.

L-24 Dr. Roy Weed, the state presbyter of the Assemblies of God, of Indiana, one of my bosom friends, a real church of... a brother. And here not long ago Brother Weed was speaking, and he knowed that my position was stay in the middle of the road, never go fanatic or never go formal, but stay with the pure unadulterated Word of God, and build upon that solid Foundation, and accept nothing 'less it's confirmed in God's Word.
And I told him in the middle of the road. At a Business Men's convention recently, Brother Weed, I guess not knowing I was there, he said, "I heard Brother Branham say, 'The middle of the road.'" He said, "Of course, you know that's not good ethics. A man that get in the middle of the road would get run over." I...

L-25 In a few minutes the master of ceremony, said, "Brother Branham, do you got a word to say?"
I said, "I sure have." I said, "Brother, these brethren become so earthbound till they can never soar up to see THUS SAITH THE LORD."
This road we're traveling is a one way road; you don't come back on it. You either go on with God, or off on the deep end, one side or the other. And the only way you can do it... Brother, we don't need all this formal stuff that we have today, neither do we need all this fanaticism we have today. There's too much of the real genuine Holy Spirit. The skies are loaded with it, and there's no need to take a substitute and try to get to heaven on some sensation, when God's Word tells you you can't do it. What's the use of accepting a substitute, either by joining a church and putting your name on the book, or going over here and getting into some kind of a stuff that you're going to have to jump up-and-down, or oil run from your hands, or bloody faces, or something, when that stuff is out of hell? It's not in God's Word. You believe me to be a prophet of God, receive my word and stay away from such stuff.


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