<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 And you come out and find Christian women laying out on the beach to get a tan. Well, I got two girls here tonight. I don't know what the future holds, but if I ever catch one of them, when she's a young woman, laying out on a beach to get a tan, she'll get a tanning all right. It won't be from the sun, it'll be Charles Branham's son with a barrel slat in his hand bringing her home, making her jump every time.
What we need today is some more old fashion mamas and papas. Instead of having all of this old "True Story" magazines laying on the shelf, as to have God's Word laying there and reading It and believing It, and teaching their children to be brought up in the admonition of the Lord.

L-22 What do you think the Holy Spirit feels when He comes before the Father? "Your daughters are wearing shorts. Your sons are permitting it." What a beautiful picture you are. But that is what it is. I'm not scolding you. I'm just trying to bring you the truth, just a little long so it won't scorch you too hard. It's better to be scorched a little here than burned hereafter.
And notice, the Holy Spirit has to bring that to the Father. How the Father must say, "I--I can't get those people to do anything," the Holy Spirit says to the Father. "We just... I--I warn them, all the things that You've sent to them. They go to church, and Your Spirit will just perform all kinds of things. They'll just set and look around like a little jug, fill up pretty quick, get up and go home." What do you think God thinks about you when you do that? I hope there's a whole lot of them here. When you can't listen to the Gospel thirty minutes...

L-23 Here not long ago I knowed of a church. Some fellow was a great member of this church, or want to become a member. And he had lots of money. And he said, "I don't want to make a public confession." And that pastor took him secretly and baptized him and took him into the church. Why, he ought to have kicked him off the platform. That's exactly right. He's not worthy.
Here sometime ago I was going down to the river, and a woman said... We was going to baptize a group of people. And she said, "Brother Branham, are you going down there to duck me?"
I said, "Woman, your heart's not right with God. I certainly would never baptize you; you go home and repent and get right with God." Certainly.

L-24 Now, when the Father finds a child that's obedient. How he likes to come and say, "Sir, your boy is a perfect child, how obedient your children are, how they love to worship You. They gather together, and they raise their hands, and the tears runs down their cheeks. They're just so full of joy." How the Holy Spirit might--must love to do that, for God is an object of worship, and God wants to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth. Jesus said so. But we get so starchy we just can't make a grunt. We couldn't say, "Amen." We--we just set there. See? How the Holy Spirit must dread to say that to the Father. But when we are obedient, and love Him, and praise Him, and give Him glory, how the Holy Spirit must love to bring this to Him. You know He'd say? "Father, you know, Your son's just like You. Oh, it's just perfect." And if we'd say it here in our street expression "just a chip off of the block." "Why, He loves You; he's obedient."


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