<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 And then what do you think that He has to do to say that His daughters and sons is smoking cigarettes? He never made a smoke stack on you. He give you some lungs to breathe air. But He has to take that message that they'll not pay any attention to the preacher, "I'll do it anyhow." And wonder what He thinks when the preacher isn't preacher enough to tell about it in the pulpit, thinks more of a meal ticket than He does the Gospel. What about that, about his preaching? Oh, it could get scorchy, but we'll let it go.
You say, "Brother Branham, your beat... You're striking up women too much." All right, then men, here it comes. Any man that'll let a--his wife wear them kind of clothes and smoke cigarettes, it shows what you're made out of. That's exactly right. I've got... I got little respects of you being a man. True. Oh, you might be big, and have big muscles, and... I've seen man that weighed two hundred pound and muscles like iron, and didn't have a ounce of man in them. That's right. Man's not measured by his muscles, but by the bags in the knees of his pants where he's been praying. That's the way...?... Man is not measured by muscle; he's measured by character. There never was a greater Man than Jesus Christ. That's right. And He was measured by character, not by statue.
Well, I come to pray for the sick. They'll take care of that.

L-39 But notice what a condition: the Spirit, the Holy Spirit how he must blush when He comes before the Father. And when He comes to say, "You know, the Assemblies and the Church of God won't agree together. The Methodists and the Baptists is fighting. The Presbyterian knows it all and won't let none of the rest of them come in." What do you think that happens, when the Holy Spirit has to take that before the Father, the Tutor of the Church?
You see the reason you don't go to the Holy Spirit with these things, you've adopted some other kind of a tutor. But that's really not your tutor. The Holy Ghost is God's selected Tutor. You might get a--one that comes tell you that them things are all right, but that's not God's Tutor. God's Tutor will follow the instruction of God's Word. Amen. Umm. But that's the truth.

L-40 But then what if the son still won't obey. That son, though he is a son... We can't say that he's not a son, but he will never have any inheritance. That father says that he won't listen: "He won't obey; I can't put trust in him; I'll just have to let him go. He's always a son." Now, if you're a borned of the Spirit of God... I have to stay with that, because you're a son of God. But if you... You lose all your--your--the glory.
Then what if this son is a good son, an obedient son. Oh, how he loves the father. How the--the tutor would like to say, "Oh, dad, I'll tell you what. You know that boy of yours, he's a chip off the old block. I'm telling you; he's just about your business just as... Why, he take care of it as good as you can right now."
How the father swells up. "Oh, sure, that's my boy." That's the way I want Him to think about us. That's the way I... We want to follow the instructions of this Word, live by It, preach by It, die by It. That's what God wants us to do.

L-41 Then, if that child was obedient, then there's set a certain day when he become of age. Now, the Pentecostal church ought to be of age; forty years old or better, about fifty. So, it should be of age.
Then there comes a day when that son becomes... He's going to be adopted or placed. (You brethren, what I'm trying to say, placing of a son. You understand what I mean.) He's to be placed, positionally. He becomes heir.
Now, they take him out in the streets, and they put him, on a certain garment. And they have a ceremony. And after that ceremony, this child is placed or adopted into the same family he was borned in, and his name's just as good on a check as his daddy's is. Right. He falls heir. He's positionally placed.


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