<TITLE>09. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 My wife said to me, coming down this morning. She said, "Billy, I don't mean to say this to flowered anybody." But she said, "Last night," I believe or one of the nights, she said, "I set by one of the little Amish women, and a little lady with the little cap on her head." She said, "And you could tell that woman had been with Jesus, for she was sweet. Her soul was mellow. Her eyes were clear." There's not no sin or nothing to hide behind or anything. She'd been in the Presence of God. Her senses wasn't dulled by whiskey, and tobacco, and all kinds of things of the world. She was refreshed from the Presence of God, reading her Bible, studying God's Word.

L-41 But we modern Americans, what we do... And the false prophets behind the pulpit say that's all right. I'm kinda in the notion of saying this; if I'm wrong, God forgive me. And I'm persuaded that a lot of them don't know God. And the congregation will never live any higher than its pastor.
No wonder the Scripture says, "These shepherds, how they have scattered the flock, woe unto them." They are the branches that bares not fruit, which will be plucked off and burned.

L-42 So many things to dull the senses of the people today. Oh, but in the midst of all that, in spite of every dulling and every voice that's in the world today, some of them pleasure voices... Some of them are--are sinful voices to lure the people. But in the spite of every bit of that, the truth of God still remains. "He that will hear My voice and come after Me..."
Men and women who will hear the voice of God, God still waits to speak to every individual that'll open their ears to hear God's voice.

L-43 If a man who isn't pastor... Many times people say, "Couldn't you do this? Couldn't you run over here? Couldn't you do this?"
Oh, I love to do it. But I've got to stay in the Presence of God if I'm going to do the thing right.
Then people say, "Oh, Brother Branham is one of these isolationists." That's not it. I love people. But there's just thousands of them. But I must stay with Him to find out what He'd have me tell them. Somewhere, just listen, He will have something for you that He wants you to know about.
Pastor, don't you never get too busy but what you can stay in the Presence and listen for His voice. God always keeps His Word. And no matter how bad the times may be, how much your church may teach against it, Jesus Christ is still willing to speak that still small voice to anybody that'll listen for Him. He's still ready to do it if we'd just quieten ourself.

L-44 But we run in flusterated and say, "Say, pastor, could I join this church?"
"What church do you come from?"
"So-and-so."
"Well, bring us you're letter." Oh, my.
"Could I join this church?"
"Oh, yes, come here--forth, and we'll sprinkle you a little bit with water, and put your name on the book, and you get the right hand of fellowship."
Well, the Masonic Lodge has got a better order than that. True. The Masonic Lodge and all other lodges are all right, but it still isn't the house of God. There's where God speaks. Those lodges try to make you moral. But God makes you righteous through Jesus Christ, His Son.


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