<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Those women, those concubines, that were up there with the king that night, if they'd listened to Daniel, they wouldn't have been there. But notice, as the party went on, you know, and they all got pretty well warmed up with their good wines, and whiskeys, and beer that they had, and then they said, "Let's have some fun."
Oh, yes, this modern Arthur Godfrey wanted to crack one about the baldheaded preacher or something, you know. So he said, "We'll go and get the vessels of the--the house of their God, and we'll just have a little joke." If that isn't a good radio or television gag, I never seen one. You see, the man dies, but the spirit lives on. "Oh, we'll just tell one about this, that, or the other to have a good gag."
Here, I heard them other day on the radio, singing, "When the Saint's Go Marching In," in ragtime, "When I See the Blood," in boogie woogie. What a disgrace! Do you think a holy God can listen to that and be just, and not judge it?

L-30 But we're fortified; we're a great nation; we're the greatest in the world. So were they. But what took place? Said, "Go get those vessels and let's have a good time." And they went and got the vessels of the Lord, the holy things, which... You are the vessel of the Lord. You're God's vessel, where He pours in His Holy Spirit. And they said, "Let's get some jokes on them, the holy- roller."
So they goes and gets it, and fills up their dishes, or their--the things with--with wine, and then this modern Arthur Godfrey, while the girls were setting on the soldiers laps, and making "whoopie," and having a big time, and the--and they're frolicking and going on, and maybe a husband at home, baby-setting, and maybe a--a woman at home, baby-setting, and her drunken husband up there--just about half and half. And there they were. Oh, this big time... Well fortified, nothing can bother them, sure...

L-31 The greatest nation under the heavens, they were. All the great scientists was in their realm. All the great war implements was under their control. They were behind the walls, so nothing could bother them. They were having a good time. They didn't know that God could look down on them. And there, in that--this modern teen, with his Elvis Presley jokes and singing... They were probably having them a big time, so he said, "Bring out those holy-rollers and let's have some fun." So he pours the wine into the vessel and he was drinking it and saying, "Oh, that's a good one."
All the tinsel and all of them, "Yes, that's good," [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] just like America, today, with some of their rotten gags and so forth, that they have on television and radio and in their modern... And you people that call yourselves Christians, listening to such stuff... Now, you can see where we're standing.

L-32 You Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterian, you good Pentecostals, something happened to you. Your desires got wrong, for what's in your heart, you'll do. You couldn't make... It would be no great surprise to me to see a pig on a manure pile, eating. That's his nature. But it would sure surprise me... I never did see and never will see a lamb eating with him, 'cause the nature in him is different. You don't see Christians doing those things. The nature, the nature of the great Holy Spirit won't let them do those things. The Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."
Now, you can judge yourselves or the Word judges you. If you love those things, the love of God's gone from you. God has first place or no place. Blessed be His Name. I'm so glad of that. I'm so glad that He's pure and holy; we can put confidence in Him. He compromises with nothing. He's God and God alone. It's not--He's not going to come down to us. We got to measure up to Him. He ain't going to come to our thoughts; we got to measure to His thoughts. He ain't going to listen to our commandments; we're going to listen to His commandments. But of course, we can do just we want to.


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