<TITLE>10. Par 65-72</TITLE>L-65 But it's got, oh, so starchy, till some poor saint can break through in the meeting, and speak in tongues, or shout a little bit, or do something, and the rest of them will all gander around and look. "What was that? Well, wonder why? That must be a fanatic dropped in somewhere." You know that's the truth. Some poor saint step in, get happy enough to raise their hands, and cry, and praise the Lord, somebody who will holler "amen" to the preaching of the Gospel, and the rest of them turn around and see what he said. That's Pentecostals. What's the matter? You're patterning after the Methodists, after the Baptists; they patterned after the Catholic; Catholic patterned after hell. And all together, they're all after hell. Right.

L-66 Delilah has wooed you into big churches, fine, educated ministers, take the better class. "Well, you know, So-and-so down here is a millionaire, if we could just get him to come into our congregation, oh, my." If he isn't born again, then he doesn't deserve to be there. I don't care if he's got a million dollars. If he owns forty Cadillacs, whatever he's got, he's got to be borned again, come right down to a new birth, and be regenerated by the Holy Ghost, and come out of there in a new birth, snotting (Excuse me.), a-crying and screaming, and carrying on like the rest of them do, and live a life afterwards to prove he's got it. Amen. That's what you need.
"Samson, the Philistines is upon thee." The Communists is upon thee. The world's upon thee. The devil's upon thee.

L-68 They go back and they see the Spirit of God perform miracles and do things of His resurrection, what Jesus promised; they say, "You know, I think Brother Branham's got a lot of mental telepathy. My pastor said it was of the devil."
You poor, hypocritical, deluded infidel, all polished up, you wolf in sheep's clothes, Jesus said, "If you'd have knowed Me, you'd have knowed My day." But you've got a bunch of Saul's that try to make you like the rest of the world.
We want a bunch of men of God who don't compromise on the Word, but preach the truth and stand on the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
But what has the world done? It shaved all your power off. You were born Nazarite, Pentecost, but the world certainly shaved your power. Now, it's just as starchy as the rest of them.

L-72 What are we going to do? What's going to happen? There's one glorious thing that I can think of to end this text. While Samson was bound... We can't have a revival. Listen at our loyal brother, Billy Graham, "Revival in our day." Listen at Oral Roberts scream, "Revival in our day." Listen at the rest of them, "Revival in our day." How can we have a revival when we're bound? We've bound the Holy Spirit with our organizations and traditions, and we can't have a Holy Ghost revival. Amen. I know that's scorching hot with the weather, but it's the truth. How can we have a Holy Ghost revival when you're so bound and starchy? "Form of godliness," the Bible said they'd have. "Form of godliness, but would deny the power thereof." The power of what? The power of the organization? The power of the world? The power of the church? The power of the Holy Ghost. That's the secret place in the church. And when the church adopts educated preachers, and big buildings, and finery, in the stead of the old fashion Holy Ghost, they'd better be in the mission again. Amen. True. How you going to have a revival of the Holy Ghost, and people quench It and bound It and afraid of It? There's where the trouble lies.


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