<TITLE>10. Par 82-90</TITLE>L-82 They thought everything that belonged to the church would be saved. Jesus said, "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it."
Let me warn you this morning, church, be careful. It takes time today in our self-righteous, self-sufficient generation of hypocrisy that we're living in, an hour that when men and women stand in the churches and in the pews, and sing the anthems of God, and walk out of that church, and smoke cigarettes, and drink whiskey, and go to dances, and--and live for the world, and tell dirty, smutty jokes, and call themselves Christians. And men and women can walk from the pulpit or from the church, and from the place of the power of the resurrection, where that same Messiahic sign is a-moving among them, and not be a new creature in Christ, there's something wrong. When the papers can blast it; and from coast to coast, back and forth, from the frozen regions of the north to the tropical jungles of the south, God sends it, and people constantly turn their back upon it. Then what can we say? What can we do? We turn back to the Scriptures where He said, "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it."

L-84 He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Listen. In the days of Noah the world was populated about like it is today. Their science was exceeding ours. They built sphinx and pyramids and done things that we cannot do today: an exceeding, great, smart people. And remember, science says today, "It's one minute before midnight." It's one minute before the clock strikes the dead hour. It's later than we think. I hope that the--trust that the Holy Spirit will sink this into every believer's heart.
"As the days of Noah," how many was saved in the days of Noah, out of that generation? Eight, eight out of many millions. He said, "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

L-86 "And as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Oh, of the tens of thousands, there was three saved.
You'd say to me then, "Preacher, what about all the thousands that's going to come with Him?" Now, brother, that was made up through many generations. I'll be surprised if a dozen comes out of this generation. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that find it.
Oh, I know the churches, what they say, "If you put your name on the book and you become a member, this, you're all right." There's no such Scripture as that. If everything's got its name on the book and in--in church, there'll be billions times billions times billions, everything will go in. Then all kinds of spirits will be in there, and what kind of a condition will heaven be in? Think of it now.

L-90 Now, someone would say to me, "Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham, So-and-so, I heard them speak in tongues; I know they'll make it."
That don't mean they'll make it at all. Paul said in I Corinthians 13, "Though I speak with tongue of men and angels, and have not love, I'm nothing."
"Oh, I went to So-and-so's meeting. Oh, he did great, mighty works. I seen him make the blind to see."
Still he could be lost. "Many will come to Me in that day and say, 'Lord, have not I preached in Your Name, prophesied? Have not, in Your Name, I've cast out evil spirits? Have not, in Your Name, I've done many great works?'" He'll say, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I didn't even know you." "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it."


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