<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Sometime ago, a chaplain told me that he found a man laying on the field, a officer, and he had been machine gunned across his chest. He was dying. And he said to him, "Captain, you are dying."
And through the struggles, he said, "I know I am."
He said, "Do you know God?"
He said, "I used to."
He said, "Well, go back to where you left Him, and there you'll find Him again."
And the Captain, dying, said, "I--I just can't think right now." The Chaplain said, "You'd better think, for your lungs are fastly filling with your own blood, and you're dying, Captain."
And he begin to try to think. After while, a smile come over his face. He said, "Oh, Chaplain, I remember now where I left Him."
Said, "Start from right there, Captain."
Said, "All right, Chaplain." He raised his eyes towards heaven, and he started like this: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And he died.
Where did he leave Him? At the cradle. There's where he found Him, at the cradle.
Wherever you leave Him; that's where you'll find Him. He will never walk in sin with you. You might be a good American, or a good church member, but God will never walk in sin with any person or any nation, or any church. He cannot tolerate sin. It's a evil, horrible stink in His nostrils. He will not do it.

L-13 Ahab had done wrong marrying this woman, marrying a sinner, unbeliever. The word "sin" means "unbelief."
I was speaking some time ago, and I said, "Committing adultery is not sin. Drinking whiskey is not sin." I was at the Henryville Methodist church.
And a precious old sister stood up, and she said, "Then, Brother Branham, what is sin?"
I said, "Unbelief." You commit adultery, and drink whiskey, and lie, and steal, because you do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Those things are attributes of unbelief. When you have received Christ, you do not do those things. You have love, joy, peace, long-suffering. That is the fruits of the Spirit, the attributes of the Holy Spirit that dwells in you.

L-14 All these things had long left Ahab, because he married this sinner girl. Oh, she was very sexy, like these modern girls of today. It prove that, after her husband was dead; she dressed herself and twisted out before Jehu, thought she could vamp that man of God, but he said, "Pull her out of the window." We had more man like Jehu today, we'd have less Jezebels. But that was her nature, and she was a worshiper of idolatry. And she brought the whole nation to idolatry.
And so has our modern trend today, falling away from the things of God and has brought the world to one of the greatest idolatries that we have, that's idleness. Just idleing around. Great is the iniquity of the people today, making plenty of money, and think that God's a blessing us because He's prospered us. That's no sign of God's blessing, not at all.

L-15 But they were prospered. And they were told by the government, the church was, that it was all right. The government, Ahab and his kingdom said these things are all right. So they had become morally decayed.
And it's not much different today. Our government hasn't... endorsed selling whiskey, selling tobacco. And our doctors shakes his cigarette... cancer by the carton. And the government says go ahead and sell it for revenue. You think God could bless on the top of that?


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