<TITLE>15. Par 143-152</TITLE>L-143 When you walk into the city here, it seems like... I don't say this any disregards to you people; you're Christian, you love me. You walk into the city here, and it seems like the power of Satan knocks you down. This place is condemned. This city's condemned.
What did Billy Graham say? When he entered Louisville, he said that's the most demon-powered place he had ever seen in his life. Placed it in the paper, said the--"You can just feel the oppression of the devil."
'Course, I'd feel it. Why? This is my own home. When Jesus returned to His own home, He said, "Many mighty works He could not do, because of their unbelief." Said, "A prophet's not without honor, a preacher, unless it's in his own--in his own country, among his own people." See? You can't help it; the Scripture says so. See?

L-146 Now, when you walk in the city here... And don't tell me I wouldn't know. I walk up to people that shake my hand and say, "Oh, Brother Branham, I love you." And you know that's a lie. You know it's a lie. If God can tell me discernment of heart, why can't He tell me that? Sure, and right among in your own people around the city...
When they see you, said, "Well, you know, I seen where a certain-certain..."
"Where? Where was it?"
"Up that..."
"Ha. We know that guy."
You feel it. Let me tell you, you let somebody come at your house that don't like you very much, set in your house just a little bit and feel that funny feeling. Multiply that by fourteen thousand now, then you get what I'm talking about. Then you get into a place where everybody loves you, that welcome feeling, just, oh, my, and you could just stay there forever. See? That's it. See? It's a spirit. And people don't know what it is; they wonder why the people's so contaminated.

L-149 What makes good women, what makes good women put on them vulgar clothes and get out there? What makes, even now when it's still cold, little sixteen-year-old girls, with clothes on that she oughtn't to wear before her mother, and out on the street? It's because, not that child; that child don't know any better; but because some preacher in the pulpit has failed to hold his post of duty. That's exactly right. Sure. Women get on the street, and all sexy-dressed and things like that, and sinners look at them and don't know that she is actually just as guilty as she lived with that man. Jesus said so. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart, and will have to answer for it at the day of the judgment." Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way.

L-150 I know you think I'm a hard guy. I'm not hard. I'm your brother, and I love you. Flee the wrath that is to come. Go to the cross and cry until your heart is filled with His Spirit, that'll turn your back from everything of the world, and walk godly before Him with your heart burning for Him. Love, not a duty; Christ is not a duty to serve Christ; it's a love that serves Christ. It strains you, constrains you, till every pulsation of your life beats with Him. That's when you see sin.

L-152 And He wept upon the earth. It grieved God in the days of Noah, when He seen the hearts. And it would grieve... Jesus set up on the hill and said, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you, but your hour's come and your house is left desolate."
So shall it be at the coming of the Son of God, the hearts of the real true believer is broken. He sees right now there ought to be a revival sweeping this land. How can it be through a bunch of illegitimates? How can it be, when they're condemned to begin with?


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