<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Remember, those conducts of yours goes right straight in the Presence of God by Somebody Who won't pull punches. No matter how good a neighbor you are, what a fine pillar you are in the church, the Holy Spirit brings the truth to God. How He must feel when He goes and says, "The women, the daughters of the church, strip themselves down and wear little old short clothes, and get out and lawn mow the yard before men." That might burn you up, but it ought to. It's right.
What's been the matter today is too many sissies behind the pulpit, and a lot of Hollywood evangelism. We need the old fashion Gospel, the old fashion Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church again.

L-18 It used to be wrong for Holiness people, and Methodists, and the people that tried to live right, the women to wear manicure, or ever what you call that stuff you put on your face. I know that's the wrong word, but I can't never think of it. Anyhow, it used to be wrong, but now you can't tell one from the other. It used to be wrong for the Christian women to bob their hair. Something went wrong somewhere. The Bible says it's wrong. Now, either you've got out of the harness, or your pastor got out of the will of God and quit preaching it. But that's the truth, and the Holy Spirit bears record before God. That's right.
It used to be wrong for the people to go out to picture shows and entertainments of the world. But today you can't tell one from the other. People will miss prayer meeting to attend some kind of a lodge meeting. And how in the world can a Christian, who calls themself a child of God, ever go into these places to eat, and so forth, these little old nickelodeons, and play them rotten songs of Elvis Presley's, and all of those things that talk about being shook up. I tell you; you're going to be shook up one of these days, and that's true.

L-19 But how, not only the young folks, but grandma and grandpa does it. That's right. Babysitters, while mama and papa is out gadding around over the country... And on Sunday morning they go to church with a long, sanctimonious face. What you need's a good, old fashion Holy Spirit shaking, is what this country needs. You know that's truth.
And oh, years ago it used to be wrong for women to smoke cigarettes. But it's popular now. And no matter how much the medical science says there's a carloads of cancer in every package of cigarettes... I heard on the radio the other day that there'll be more people die in the United States in the next year than were killed on both sides of the war, because they smoke cigarettes, throat cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. And yet, it's estimated that about ninety-five percent of the Christian church smoke cigarettes. What a disgrace.

L-20 You talk about a fifth columnist; that's the fifth columnist. I'm not worried about Russia coming over here and doing any harm to us. They're not going to hurt us; we're hurting ourselves. Our own moral decay is what's taking us down. It isn't the robin that pecks the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that hurts it. It's our own rottenness.
Say, "Brother Branham, you're picking on the women." All right, you men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife put on them dirty clothes, like that little old shorts, and get out before the public, it shows what you're made out of. I don't call him much of a man. That's right. You're supposed to be the head of the house, but she's the neck; she tells you where to turn. It's a woman's world. That's right. And you're giving in to it.


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