<TITLE>06. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 And the Holy Spirit falls into a meeting, and sometimes the believer and unbeliever worship by the same Spirit; but the fruit of the Spirit proves what you are (Uh-huh.), not the reaction of the Spirit, not to speak with tongues, not to shout; that goes with it too; that all goes with it. But unless the fruit of the Spirit bears record with God's Word, you're just got a outward demonstration.
And we today are relying so much on outward emotions and demonstrations, when it takes a genuine, pure, borned again, Holy Ghost led life to prove what you are. Now, that is right, my dear brother and sister. Unless there is fruit, and the fruit of the Spirit is not outward demonstrations; it's an inward work of grace; love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, faith, meekness, gentleness, patience; there you are.

L-29 Now, you don't hear that preached on too much by evangelists any more. It's been let run haphazard any way it can go. But I'm just one of the old fashion type that believes in good old fashion holiness. I believe. You say, "That's a big word for a Baptist." But I'm one of them Baptists that got the Holy Ghost, that believes in real genuine borned again holiness. Certainly. I believe the tree's known by its fruit.

L-30 Look at this little old lamb. What a wonderful little creature he is. God likens us unto sheep. Now, the lamb must be a simple lamb. The first thing, a lamb in its nature is simple.
Now, let's look at ourselves just a few moments. A lamb is a simple lamb, but not us; we know it all. You can't tell us nothing, and we call ourselves lambs. Oh, a lamb must be led. It has no way to lead itself. Did you ever see a lamb lost? When a sheep gets lost, he's just totally helpless. He cannot help himself. He's lost. He's got to be led. And a real genuine Christian has to be led. He has no intelligence of his own to know anything about God; he just goes by the leading of the Spirit.

L-31 And the real shepherd leads the sheep. Oh, brother. A real shepherd feeds the sheep the right kind of food, if he loves the sheep. And the sheep food... You say, "Brother Branham, what is it?" It isn't intellectual. It isn't go away to school and get an education. That's all right, but that isn't it. The shepherd feeds the sheep on sheep Food. You know what sheep Food is? The Word of God. That's right. "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." That's sheep Food.
Now, notice, he will not... He'll just not starve you to death. He'll give you some real vitamins. He might not have a good barn to put you in, but he'll feed you good. That's the best part. I--I tell you, I'd rather have an old shack and get a good square meal than to be somewhere and not get nothing to eat but a--all kinds of fine decoration with a big cover charge on it. I like to eat and especially at the Word of God, at the table of God, with old fashion borned again experienced preaching from the Word of God. Certainly.

L-32 We need that, brother, not new churches, not new buildings, not educated pastors; we need some feeders of the Word. Stay with the Word. Stay in It. That's the only thing. Don't never vary any bit from that Word. Stay right with It. The Word says it and declares it from Genesis to Revelations; stay with It. If it isn't confirmed all the way through the Bible, get away from it. There's too much real to have to fool with something that you're not sure of. Stay with the real. That's right. Stay with the real.


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