<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 What makes the people act the way they do? They see it on the television, in the shows, in the papers, and so forth, and try to impersonate.
Let me go into your home. Let me see what you read, listen to what kind of music you listen to; I can tell you what you're made of, what's on the inside of you. That'll come out.
I was preaching at the--our tabernacle, some time ago. And oh, the Holy Spirit got into the meeting, and some woman begin weeping with her hands up. And a couple days afterwards, I met a Sunday school teacher from the First Baptist Church. He said, "Billy, I was standing outside." (They don't like it, you know, because I preach Divine healing. I preach the full Gospel, what Christ died, a full Gospel, the full redemption.) And he said, "I was enjoying your message till that woman begin to cry." And he said, "That just made shivers go up my back."
I said, "You mean that dear, sainted, little mother setting back there weeping and made shivers go up your when she was rejoicing in the Spirit? If you'd ever get to heaven, you'd freeze to death, boy. You're going to hear plenty of it when you get there, 'cause the Bible said so."

L-27 Then he got all excited because the First Baptist Church has a ball team. And I heard them over behind my house a screaming till you couldn't hear yourself think. And I said, "What was all that noise over there?
He said, "You know Charlie Nolan?"
I said, "Yes."
He said, "He hit a home run, and three men on base."
I said, "What's you so excited about? If you said that woman was a holy-roller, then you must be an unholy-roller." That's right. See? It's just become so modernized, it's left God out of his program.

L-28 Used to be, our President went to the office with prayer, the cabinet was led in prayer. Where is it today? I appreciate our President we got. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican, but I'm a Christian. But I appreciate Mr. Eisenhower, but you put a Mr. Eisenhower in every county in this nation, would never shake it by its...?... And we're and we're judgment bound. We've crossed the line between mercy and judgment. We're headed for it. So today--they knowed better. So do we.
But they got a bunch of preachers around that said those things would pass back with the grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, long ago. And then while they were in this great big carry on, rock-and-roll, and having them a good time. You know, this modern Hollywood boy... You know, like Pea Pickin' Ernie... They've got up there, and he wanted to pull a joke, so he wanted to pull a joke on religion. You know, "the bald-headed preacher," or--or something on that order. Pull some kind of a smutty joke.
So he went and got the holy vessels, which you are the vessel of the Lord now, to pull a joke with that. And he said, "We'll go get those things and drink some wine out of it."

L-29 Did you ever see people just wanted to act smart? Isn't our American land just like that? Spit on your foot, just to show you they could do it. Puff smoke... And you talk about, "It's wrong for you to smoke." Then they'll ask you, say, "Hey, you the preacher that preaches against smoking? How you like this? [Brother Branham illustrates by blowing--Ed.]" Looks like you're going to burn soon enough.
If God wanted you to smoke, He'd made a smoke stack on top of you or something another, give you a flue. You wasn't made for such. It's a weed of the devil. Then notice. And a lot of you preachers use it. Shame on you. If you're a pretty example for Christianity, smoking cigarettes. And you deacons smoking cigarettes, married three or four times, and then a deacon in the house of the living God, if that isn't disgraceful... No wonder we're in chaos. No wonder women are wearing sack dresses and shorts and things like that; they got preachers and deacons like that. It's a meal ticket, in the stead of a commission from God then.


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