<TITLE>10. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 Have you ever noticed in King James version, the translation of the 14th chapter of Saint John? "In My Father's house is many mansions..." Doesn't that sound strange? "In My Father's house, a little house with many mansions." Now, you see, in the days of King James, the house was called the "domain," and the king was the father of that domain. The right translation is this: "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." One, Moffatt I... Someone, I really don't remember which one it was, made it more ridiculous than King James has got it. Said, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments." We ain't going to rent no apartments up there; I'm sure of that. But the real translation is, "In My Father's Kingdom..." But you see, in translating that for the king, they had to make it in the--the language that they talked in, which is more like the Bible times.
When a father owned a great, great farm, a little boy was borned in this home, he was a child, as--and he was a son as soon as he was born. But... Now, there's where I think that we, the Full Gospel people has made a little slight mistake; maybe not intentionally, but trying to tell the people that as soon as you receive the Holy Spirit, that settles it. It doesn't. It doesn't. You're only put on trial.

L-35 And this boy, when he was born, he was a son. But then, the father would go out and find the best tutor, or raiser that he could find for this child, to educate it. He wanted his son to be brought up in the very best of school that could be. And then this tutor brought the father word all the time how his son was progressing.
Notice, how typical that is of God. When we were borned into the household of God, God searched the heavens to find the best Teacher He could find for His Church. That wasn't the bishop or an archbishop. That was the Holy Ghost. That's the Teacher and the Tutor to the Church that's borned again in the body of Christ.

L-36 And how do you think that tutor felt when he come up before the father with a shamed face and have to say, "That little boy of yours, that you love so much, oh, he's a rascal. He's not doing good at all. He's not interested in your affairs; he's just a--a roustabout." How he must felt.
What do you think the Holy Spirit says now when He comes up into the Presence of God to tell the Father the behavior of His Church. Now, I could make this awful poison right here, but maybe I'll just let it go, just touch a few things. What do you think that He comes up before the Father and says, "You know, that church that's borned again down there, they're even teaching perverse things, that the days of miracles is past." What do you think about that? What if He has to tell the behavior, that lots of the deacons is married four or five times and still holding the deacon's office. He must blush to do that. How that the women have cut off their hair, how that they wear shorts instead of dresses. Um! That must have been awful.

L-37 Oh, someone said to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham," said, "you see, I don't wear those shorts. I wear those (you know, what is it you call them?) slacks." That's worse than ever. The Bible said that a woman that'll but on a garment that pertains to a man, it's an abomination in the sight of God. What's happened? It used to be wrong for you Pentecostal people to do that. Somebody let down the bars somewhere. If it was wrong then, it's wrong now. That's right.
But the Holy Spirit has to take record up before the Father for those things. Isn't that terrible? My, it must be awful to have to do it, taking those kind of a messages of the way that they do.


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