<TITLE>10. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Another thing that they had in that day, was absolutely astounded a Bible teaching. That was one of the things they had which the palmerworm and the caterpillar... And did you notice it's the same insect all the way down. Now, this old devil cankerworm has come in, and he crawls in the skin too, you know, cankers you up. Once they ever find a little thing and when he does, it don't make any difference what somebody else tries to say, he will just hold to that, and he will isolate his little group into something, "but this is this." Brother, it ain't, "This is this."; this is "that." That's the thing. A fellowship, a true Bible teaching, not going out after one thing or another. We've got genuine, Spirit filled, Holy Ghost brethren.
If I would direct my message towards one of them, I'd be a hypocrite. I don't speak against things the Baptist church says this, the Methodist church says that, and this does that or this does that. I'm not preaching against the men; I'm preaching against that devil of a cankerworm, that's trying to get a hold of mankind. And we see it. We will... I brought this so that we could lay it out before these brothers, that we would see that these destroyers was predicted to come and eat the vine down.

L-38 Now, we know the Holy Ghost is here. We know the Holy Ghost is life. But brethren, do you realize it's only working in a stump? Did you think that? Do you realize that's a part, my friend? The Spirit is only working in a stump? The Bible said it would be a stump. What is it? We've got disunified body. We've got brotherly love scattered from side to side. Way down in the heart of every borned again man, this morning, in their hearts they want to embrace one another. They...?... want to do it. There's a many a preacher here in Phoenix that belongs to the churches of different denominations would love to walk in here this morning, and take the Oneness, and the Twoness, and the Threeness, and forget their differences, and...?... Christ is in their heart.
But what is it? What's keeping them from it? Their organization. If they get caught in that bunch, they'll get excommunicated. That's a false unity; the Bible said so. That's right. God never did organize His church. Now, don't be against that. God said it had to happen. But the thing of it is among all of us, let's be brethren. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-39 Then we find out all these great things, and here we are just stumped. Here this vine will start, and when it does the palmerworm will cut down the brotherhood.
What come next? That's where the palmerworm died and turns into a locust and he goes to stinging. Then the locust goes and in comes the cankerworm. The cankerworm leaves and here comes the caterpillar to get what's left. See? Right back to the stump it goes. And brethren, the point with the life coming up from the root, Christ Jesus ('cause He was the Root and Offspring), we, by our indifferences, have let these things cut up and keep us a stump.
"Is there any hope then," you say, "Brother Branham?"
Blessed be to God, "I will restore saith the Lord. All the years, the blessings, that the cankerworm, the caterpillar, the palmerworm and everything that's eaten down..." And brethren, as a middle-aged man, as a preacher of the gospel, and your brother, which loves you with Christian love, I'm looking to see the day, soon, when those cankerworms and caterpillars will be sprayed with God's insect powder and...?... and every church will embrace one another: men shall be brethren and praise the Lord.


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