<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Now, we never was commanded to produce fruit. No, sir. God never said anywhere to produce fruit. We are to bear fruit. And there's quite a difference in producing and bearing. Now, we produce education. We produce psychology. We produce intellectuals, the outside form. But to bear the fruit, it must be from the inside coming out. We're trying to smear it on the outside. But God's church isn't built like that; it's from the inside coming out. The apple don't come from the outside of the tree; it comes from the inside out. The life of the tree shows what it is. And the fruits it bears is what it's known by.
And the church is known today... It's got an outside intellectual seminary experience, the best polished scholars we ever had. And the church has got the weakest pulpits it ever had in any age. That's right. Is because we're trying to control it by intellectuals. That's not God's program. God didn't intend it.
Now, look. You say, "What can we do, Brother Branham? What makes it?" I said this afternoon I was going to speak on "Why Some People Can't Keep The Victory."

L-23 Now, notice. Now, the church doesn't need a polishing. It doesn't need a facelifting. It needs a birth. It needs a conversion. Something's got to happen. Not just to strengthen our borders, not to bring in new members: a revival is not to get new members. A revival is to revive what we got. That's what we so badly need.

L-24 Not long ago in Chicago, I was standing out by the great, famous Lake Michigan. And I noticed how those waves were leaping and jumping. And I thought, "Oh, my. The lake's got a revival today." And I stood there; there was someone standing with me.
They said, "Pardon me, Brother Branham?"
I said, "The lake has a revival."
"Why," he said, "what do you mean by a revival?"
I said, "Look how it's a leaping and jumping, pounding its waves back and forth, and dashing against each other, just frolicking."
And he said, "Well, what do you mean, a revival?"
I said, "It's having a rejoicing time." And I said, "But remember, there's not one more drop of water in it in its jumping, as it is when it's quiet." That's right.
Now, our jumping and shouting and praising God is wonderful if we can still have the same amount of water when we come down to earth again. That's right. The church is not built upon rejoicing and upon bubble dancing, but it's built upon the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the love of God.

L-25 "Well," you say, "what good does a revival do then?" If you notice, every time the sea has a revival, or the lake (it just churns back and forth), is to knock all the trash out of it. After you get the revival over, the trash is laying on the bank. It cleans itself in a revival. And God knows the church of the living God needs a revival, for a lot of its nonsense needs to be churned out of it. That's right.
What makes the revival? What makes the lake churn? Is because there's a wind comes. That's right. The wind comes down from heaven and gives it a revival. That's what makes the church. When a rushing, mighty wind come from heaven, one day, a Pentecostal revival broke out. That's what we need today, is another rushing, mighty wind on the Pentecostal church to get the little isms and little differences out of it, so the love of God can have the right of way. Throw all the trash out on the banks and clean her out, and let's get started again.


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