<TITLE>07. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 Now, I want to ask you a question. We make so much emotion over our religious ideas, but who is it in the city tonight in Jeffersonville, that's so concerned about the lost world in this last day, that even spends thirty minutes a night praying for the sins of the city? But according to the Scriptures, the Angel of God was only to seal those who sighed and cried for the abominations.
We're not interested no more. We just want to know that we can have a good time. We want to know that we can have a little society in our church. We want to know that we've got a--a vote coming when it comes time to elect the next pastor. We want our church to look a little better than the next fellow's church. That's the idea of this world today.

L-27 No one begging, "Oh, Lord, God come to me quickly or I'll perish. Oh, pass me not, oh Saviour. You was omnipotent, You Who are omnipresent, come and dwell in my heart, oh Lord."
It's even hard to get a man or a woman to raise their hands to accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour. The old fashioned mourners bench has been taken out. There is no more weeping. There is no more crying at the altar.

L-28 Just think when Charles G. Finney, just a Gospel preacher, a little converted lawyer, little-bitty, dried-up looking fellow was testing his 'acoustics in a building. And he said, "Repent or perish." And a man setting in the cupola, fainted and fell out.
He stood on the balcony of a building in New England and preached hell to the lost. And when he screamed out, "You'll perish if you don't repent," men fainted and women had fell in the streets.
But today you can preach repentance, and hell fire and brimstone, and people will laugh at it. What's the matter? Our hearts are cold. We are indifferent. We've got too much. We need less of the world and more of God. Our hearts are too cold.
We become interested in some emotion. We become interested if--if we can dance, if we can shout (I believe in it.), if we can speak with tongues. I believe in it. I believe in every bit of that. But if we have that and don't have that agonizing, weeping, broke up spirit, God can never use it. Them things are good, but we got to have the other to go with it. We've left off the main thing and gone for secondary. And you can never major on a minor. We know that.

L-29 Even in our own meetings, our own meetings has got too much to the place it's too much on Divine healing instead of healing of the soul. Brother, what we need today is a revival, a breaking up, souls on fire for God, what I mean, on fire and down at the altar, the tears running down their cheeks, not for five minutes and get up and forget it, but out trying to win the lost back to Christ again, a burden on their heart.
"God, take all the pleasures of the world and all of its frenzy, all of its frolic, and put a burden on my heart for the lost," would be my prayer.

L-30 They constrained Him. "Oh, Lord, we don't know Who You are, Sir, but we love Your preaching. Come in and stay with us through the night." And Jesus went in, walking with them, and they didn't know Him. And when He once got in, maybe a little hut... But there's nothing too humble for Him.
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I'm an old man." I don't care how old you are. "I'm just a child." That doesn't matter, how young you are. "I'm too poor. I've got on overalls." Oh, if you had a grass sack wrapped around you, it wouldn't make no difference to God. Just ask Him. You're great in the sight of God. You may not be much in the front of man, but you're great in the sight of God. You're one of His subjects.


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