<TITLE>14. Par 46-49</TITLE>L-46 But oh, here we stand now. Look where we are at. The law has passed. No man can be saved by it. The justice of God, oh, we are all sinners, borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. Now, who wants justice, when you're lost when you were born. You haven't got a chance. You can't even get started. So how could you want justice?
God passed Elijah by. And when they looked up, I'm so glad. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He said look over here. What did Jesus represent? The love of God, not the law, not the justice, but the love of God, He represented. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son."

L-47 My brother, sister, today we're trying to make denominations; we're trying to build churches; we're trying to organize people, educate them. It's all in vain, until the love of God comes in. You want to speak with tongues; you want to clap your hands; you want to jump, you want to dance; you want to do certain things to make yourself a Christian. You'll never be, until the love of God takes over in your heart, that tears that middle out, that makes you feel for your brother, that'll make you act like a man, like a child of God, and put Christ in you, the Hope of glory.
Until the church comes to that, she's still a total failure and always will be.
 Dear dying Lamb Thy precious blood
 Shall never lose its power,
 Till all the ransomed church of God
 Be saved to sin no more.
 Ever since by faith I saw that stream,
 Thy flowing wounds supplied,
 Redeeming love has been my theme,
 And shall be till I die.

L-48 Not your emotions, not your denomination, not your little isms, not for your cults, not for this, not for your church, not for your building, not for your pastor, but the love, love is what the world needs. Love is what the church needs.
How can you love? Look. The people... If I go overseas... I've got a little wife at home. I love her with all my heart. Now, here, when I go overseas, I don't say, "Now, wait a minute, Mrs. Branham. Set down here. I'm going overseas. I'll be gone for six months. Thou shalt not have any other husbands but--but me. Don't you dare have a date, 'less you go out with me. Thou shalt not make eyes at any man." Wouldn't that be awful? Wouldn't that be some kind of a home? Certainly, that's the law. "And if you do, when I come back, girl, you are going to get it." Wouldn't that be a home? That's the way you got your church. That's the way your church is operating.
"Don't you go over there. And if you do, you--I'll excommunicate you and strike your name off."
Oh, yeah. "But, bless God, I'm a church member." There you are.

L-49 Now, what if she turned around to me and said, "Now, just a minute, Mr. Branham. Thou shall have no other wives but me, either." Wouldn't that be a lovely home? No. Why? That don't even come in my mind. Why, I love her. She loves me. When we get ready--I get ready go overseas, I reach over and look in her eyes and I see the tears coming, in my own too, I say, "Sweetheart. Jesus said, 'Who will not forsake His own and follow after Me is not worthy to be called Mine.'" I say, "Let's kneel and pray and get our little children around the chair." I say, "Father God, the harvest is ripe. I must go and preach the Gospel."
Little Sarah standing on one side holding my coat and little Becky on the other side. "Daddy, do you have to go?"
"Yes, sweetheart. My Lord said, 'Into all the world and to ever creature you must go."
"Well, daddy, if something would happen to you, what would we do?"
"God will take care of that, my dear."


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