<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 And just look at the critical world today against the powers and the--the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Think of our nation today: how critical, how sin is waiting in on every hand. And yet, we go to church. Oh, we're very religious people in going to church. And so was Israel. "But there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death."
Now, we've got a truth that Jesus Christ saves from all sin, that the Blood of Jesus Christ sanctifies the believer, fills the believer with the Holy Spirit. There's plenty of Toxin, but the people's refusing to take it. And that's the reason we got things the way we have now.

L-21 I meet people all the time that tell me, "Brother Branham, I just can't keep from smoking."
I met a little woman here not long ago, and she was in a restaurant. And the poor little thing looked like she had TB to begin with. And because the advertisement told her that she would be thin if she smoked... Do you only realize that that's death on you does that? Do you realize that you're killing yourself by doing it? She said, "I just can't help it. I have to do it." No she doesn't. The reason she does it, is because she refuses the Toxin. There is a Balm for that.
A man told me, a Christian (supposed to be), that he had such a habit that he couldn't turn his head from women.
I said, "It's your own fault."
He said, "I just can't keep from it."
I said, "You refuse the Toxin." That's all.
God can sanctify that spirit of yours in such a fix and such a condition. Say, "Well, just look at them on the street."
I said, "I don't care what they are, you don't have to look at them. If God gives you the Holy Ghost, you'll look for something better than that, something higher, something greater than that." It's because they refuse to take the Toxin.

L-22 People refuse the new birth. They don't like the thoughts of being borned again. And some of the modern teachers teach, the new birth is to walk up and take fellowship with the church; that's the new birth. That's wrong.
The new birth is a birth, just what it says it is. It's being borned again. Any man knows that any birth is a mess. Let it be in a barnyard, let it be on a hay stack, let it be in a--a decorated hospital room. Wherever it is, it's a mess, any birth.
And the new birth is no conception. It's no... It's no difference. There... It's a--it's a mess. When a man is borned again, He makes him do things he wouldn't think he was going to do. It might make you squall, and boo-hoo, and carry on. It might make you do things that you didn't think you would do, but it brings new life. That's the main thing, is new life.
I don't care what level I have to meet it on; I want new birth and new life. I don't care we're classed as a holy-roller or whatever it is; I want new life. And new life can only come when death comes to the believer or the unbeliever.


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