<TITLE>05. Par 17-18</TITLE>L-17 I was speaking with the wife this morning. I told her; I said... We was talking of death. I said, "Since I got saved thirty years ago as a boy, ever since then, it seems like I'm in a nightmare."
She said, "What do you mean."
I said, "In this life something happened down in me that makes me know that there's a land somewhere, and I'm shaking myself to wake up." Someday, death will wake me into His Presence. Did you ever have a nightmare, and you was--wanted to get out of it, and you were jerking and jumping. You want to wake up because you know there's a reality somewhere that's far beyond that nightmare.
So is it to every Christian that's borned again, and always has been. Abraham and Isaac and them said they were pilgrims and strangers. They were seeking a City to come. They denied...?...

L-18 We were going to the grocery a few weeks ago, and we noticed a woman with a dress on. It was the most uncommon thing we'd seen in a long time. So we... Meda said to me, she said, "Bill, what is the matter?"
I said, "Honey, here's what it is. We don't want to get accustomed to the world."
She said, "Well..."
Some people has said, and I've got letters, "You're going to ruin your ministry by making such remarks as you do."
I said, "If preaching the truth ruins a ministry, then it ought to be ruined." That's right.
She said, "Well, what makes Christians feel different?"
I said, "When I was in Sweden, or in Finland, the women in the bath house give the man the bath. They were nurses they said. That's their customs. When I was in Paris, all the rest rooms was both men and women, together. That's a custom of Paris. They think nothing of it." I made a mention to Dr. Munion and... over in... when we were staying at the YMCA. And they wanted me to go down and take one of those saunas, which I thought was fine, but not with the women there.
And so, he said, "But Brother Branham," said, "those are wash women."
I said, "But it's not right."
He said, "What about your doctors examining your women over in America then?" See? So there you are. See? It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other. But it's the nation that you belong to and the custom. And when a man or a woman is borned again of the Spirit of God, they are born from a place that's holy, and this in not their home, and they are seeking a City to come, Whose Builder and Maker is God. Your Spirit comes from above.
She said, "Then we're not Americans?"
I said, "We are as long as we're in the flesh."


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