<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Isn't that just like today, denominations, splitting up brotherhood? One says, "Oh, I believe in the keeping the Sabbath."
Other one, "I don't want to eat meat."
And this one, "You can't drink a soft drink."
This one, "You have to do this."
And this, "You have to do that." Denomination, barriers drawed, lines drawed... If you're right in your heart, the rest of it will take place all right.
We're Hoosiers; we got oak trees out here. And now, they've all kept their leaves through the winter. When spring comes, you don't have to go pick off them old leaves to let new leaves come on. Just let new life come, and the old leaf drops off. You just need new life. And if the new life that you think you've received doesn't pattern with God's Word, you've got the wrong life in you. The life of Christ will produce the works of Christ, will produce the faith of Christ, will make you act as Christ, make you love Him. He will be first in your life. Your objectives, your motives, and everything will be altogether different. It'll be for the glory of God.

L-38 And before He could even get through speaking... Did you notice? And while He speak these words, a voice came from heaven, said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him. Turn your head away from Moses, Sabbatarians and law-keepers. Turn away from the prophets in the--the Old Testament and the justice of God."
Moses, represented the law. No man can be saved by the law. Everything that you do, legally, that's legalistic. You can't do nothing to save yourself; it takes the grace of God to save you. No matter what you do, you're doing it in yourself; it doesn't have nothing to do with it. It won't be long till you'll be just like... That's what happened to the church.
You say, "I'll let my hair grow long, Brother Branham. I want to look like a Christian." If that isn't coming from the inside, it'll soon rub out again. Certainly it will. You get that "holier-than-thou" attitude. That's wrong. But if the Spirit of Christ comes in, It'll actually bring forth new life. Then it's not nothing legally. It's something that's in your heart, that sprouts forth these things. You'll get away from the walls of these modern Babylon buildings that's fixing to fall anyhow. I just feel that in my heart.

L-39 Here sometime ago when I went to India, just as soon as I got in India, I picked up a paper. Three days before that they had an earthquake. But way before the earthquake ever come, all the little birds flew out of their nests and went out in the fields in the trees. All the cattle that stood around the big stone walls, went out and stood in the fields away from the walls. When the earthquake come, it shook the walls down. God was preparing, preserving the animal life.
But today we see the handwriting on the wall. And the church in its religious acts, and its denominations sinking, and it's failed. If God can warn a bird, and a cow, and a horse, and a sheep, and a dog, and a donkey to get away from the walls before they fall, come out of it, and come into Christ. Run to the center of His mercy, which is Calvary, and call out. No matter how long you been a Methodist or a Pentecostal, run to Calvary until your whole makeup is changed, and you become a new creature in Christ. Amen.
I'm not amening myself, but "amen" means "so be it." And that's right. Surely we'd have the gumption of a bird or an animal. If they can do it by instinct, what could God work through the Holy Ghost?


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