<TITLE>09. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And I wonder today, how the Holy Spirit must feel when it comes before the Father and tells about all of our stews and our fusses in the church. I wonder how He feels? But He just... God can trust Him. He will tell the truth.
And how He must feel when He comes before the church and says, the women that professes to be saintly and godly, is out in the backyard with a little pair of ill, dirty-looking clothes on, called shorts, mowing their yard.
Now, you're going to hate me after this. But you're going to love me there, because I'm telling you the truth. Oh, it's a disgrace. It's a shame.

L-27 Well, you say, the little... The ladies with their... What do you... Slacks, is that what you call it? Do you know the Bible said it's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man? What's happened? It used to be wrong. Something's happened.
Now, I don't want to hurt you. But why was it a few years ago, when I first knew you Pentecostal people, that it was wrong for you women to cut your hair? Did something happen? The Bible didn't change. Something happened. An old brother preacher used to sing a song, "We let down the bars; we let down the bars; we compromised with sin. We let down the bars; the sheep got out, but how did the goats get in?" You let down the bars; that's what started it.

L-28 It used to be wrong for Christians to go to bioscopes, picture shows, and see these worldly pictures. The devil's a smart man; he brought it right into your home on a television. What's the matter? What do you think the Holy Spirit thinks when He comes before the Father?
It used to be wrong for Christian women to wear manicure, or what is that stuff, you know? I don't know, that stuff on their face? My, my wife will get me for that. She doesn't wear it. But I can't think of what it is. It's--It's makeup, make...?... hoe cake, or something. It's some kind of stuff you put on your face. And go to the... All these things, it used to be wrong. What do you think the Father thinks when He knows His Church is a doing that?
It used be a lady walked down the street; you could tell by the way she walked, and the way she acted, she was a Christian. But today they all look the same. A woman said to me not long ago; she said, "Brother Branham, they don't sell any different clothes but that, them kind of clothes." They still got sewing machines. There's no excuse. That's right. What's the matter? We've let down the bars; something's wrong. You know that's the truth. It certainly is.

L-29 I want to leave this, before I go a little further. Did you know what? A lady... I don't want you to be angry with me, but, bless your heart, sister, I got to be honest. Do you know, if you dress in these sexy-looking clothes that they wear out here on the street, and a sinner looks at you, and you are dressed that way, do you know you're going to answer at the judgment for committing adultery with that sinner? Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." And if you dress like that, you're guilty, because you've place yourself before him like that. Search through the Scriptures and see if that's right. It's true. Well, you might be as pure as a lily. That's right. But as long as you present yourself in some of this modern stuff...


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