<TITLE>12. Par 103-115</TITLE>L-103 Then you would say to me, "Brother Branham, what is the mark of a Christian? Who will be saved? Will you, Brother Branham?" I'm trusting that to God. I don't know. I'm believing that I am. I'm comparing my life daily with the Word. If it don't live up to this Word, then there's something wrong; I got to go back and get right.
"Well, say, Brother Branham, when people speak with tongues, don't that mean they're saved?" No, sir. No, indeed. I've heard witches and wizards speak with tongues, all kinds of nonsense. I've seen people speak with tongues and live with another man's wife. I've seen people speak with tongues, and jump up-and-down, and shout like the house was on fire, and go out, and pull crooked deals, and steal, tell lies, and everything. How can you expect it? No, sir. Belong to church, deacons in the church, pious as they could be. Why, you think they'd buy gasoline on Sunday? No. But on Monday do something that's dirty and rotten and lowdown.
God dwells in the heart, not in outward; it's something comes from the heart. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and but few there'll be that'll find it." As it was in Noah's days, eight out of those millions; as it was in the days of Sodom, three out of millions; so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.

L-107 And you see the corruption that we're in. You see how every imagination of man, he gets out there and the devil makes smart preachers stand in the pulpit and let people get by with it.
The other day a person said, "I wouldn't have you in my pulpit; you'd make my women go crazy." No, they're already that way. It'd bring them to their right mind, tell them there to quit wearing these clothes and things, and the... Well, somebody's got to do it.
I said to my wife, "Have I gone crazy myself? Am I insane?" For what's the matter with me? Something on the inside can't hold still. I got to tell it; I don't care what anybody says.
Say, "You're going to ruin your ministry." Well, any ministry that the Gospel will ruin, ought to be ruined. God, give us boldness to stand for what's Truth and tell the truth about it. It's a sin, a disgrace.

L-111 "Strait is the gate," said Jesus, "and narrow is the way." And you that think millions, and all you Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Pentecostals going in, you'll be fooled at the day. Jesus said, "Many will come and set down in the Kingdom, say, 'I've a right to be here.'" He said, "But the children of the Kingdom shall cast them out. There'll be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth." It's better take inventory this morning, Christian. There'll be ten times millions times billions of professed Christians, staunched in their life, that'll miss the gate. Jesus said so.

L-112 "How many's going in?" I don't know how many's going: only thing is, "God, let me be one of them." That's it. So He's the Judge. "Let me be one."
You say, "Brother Branham, how can you tell then when a Christian?"
I don't know. But let me tell you what the Scripture says. Surely you believe That. When the Holy Ghost was sent to the earth, God spoke through the Holy Ghost. He sent an angel forth--forth, first. And He said, "Go through the city and among the people, and put a mark upon their forehead, of them that sigh and cry for the abominations, correcting those things."

L-115 What is abomination? A woman that'll put on a garment that pertains to a man. It makes God sick. Did you ever get around where something's abominable? How sick it makes you, you can't stand it. A woman that'll put on a garment that pertains to a man, that's the way it makes God feel; you might sing in the choir; you might pray every day, and shout every day, or live for God every day, you're condemned in the Presence of God. That's exactly what the Scripture says. "An abomination..." And those who uphold such will have a part with such.
God, give us grace to stand against such. If you have to stand by yourself, stand there and hold the Word of God in your hand. It'll never fail.


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