<TITLE>08. Par 78-92</TITLE>L-78 I remember the Holy Spirit give me a warning not to go to the YMCA in Finland. I didn't know what it was about. And come to find out they had bath women there. And I stayed away, and I would not go in with Doctor Manninen and them for a swim. And I found out, those scrub women scrubbed the men. And I said, "That's not right."
"Well," he said, "Brother Branham, that's just as much right as your nurses is in the United States." Said, "They're trained for that."
I said, "I don't care how much they're trained; it never was intended that way. God covered them up and made them different." That's right. But they pay no attention to it.

L-81 They were Finns, wonderful people, but it's a spirit of the nation. Wherever you go, you find the spirit of a nation. And you come to America, you've really had it then, that's the worst of all.
And my wife said to me, "Why, those people go to church, and I've often wondered why it didn't condemn their conscience."
I said, "My dear wife, let me tell you. They are Americans."
She said, "Well, why, aren't we?"
I said, "No." I said, "We just live here. But we've been born from above; the Holy Spirit of God come upon us."
Therefore, we are pilgrims and strangers here; this is not our abiding place. But we are seeking a city to come whose Builder and Maker is God. Therefore, when you are borned of above, you have the Holy Spirit coming down from God, that changes your nature. No matter, your sister, your mother, your--your best friend could be dressed that way; but the Christian that's borned of the Spirit of God is born from above, and their Spirit is of another Kingdom. Oh, I'm so glad of that. The simpleness of the Holy Spirit, to follow It, to watch It, how It behaves, makes you behave...

L-85 That's the way it was in the days of Noah, and God got so filled up with it. But before He sent a storm to destroy the entire world, God made preparation for those who wanted to stay out of it. And I can see Noah standing in the door of the ark, preaching righteousness. Oh, there wasn't many would listen at him. They were something like today. They want entertainment, not the Gospel. Woe unto these Hollywood evangelists who's afraid to call sin sin.
We need some of the old fashion, backwoods preachers that's got the Holy Spirit, that's not afraid to preach the Gospel with their bare hands, not covered up with some kind of a rubber glove, but preach the coming of the Lord Jesus, judgment for the wicked, and heaven for the righteous, and the near approaching. What season? I don't know, and no one else knows. But I'll warn my generation. If it comes now, I want them to be warned.

L-88 I can see Noah in that door of the very ark. Oh, I'd just like to believe one thing; it wasn't that way; but Noah standing in that door, the only way to safety...
I can see Moses, later, standing in the door, with blood on the lintel, preaching judgment, with the blood on the lintel.
Today Jesus is the Door to the sheepfold, ministers of the Gospel standing in that Door, pleading with the congregation to come to safety.
And no doubt but what there was many laughed at Noah, made fun of him. The Bible said they were scoffers. I can just hear them say something like this, "Noah, if you haven't got some better entertainment than that, we'll just stay home."

L-92 The world today, America, doesn't want the Gospel. They want entertainment. They've got to have something to entertain them, a lot of fancy music, or something like that, or some kind of a party, some kind of a wiener roast, which them things are all right, outside the church. But the church is where judgment ought to be preached in the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and a warning. Judgment begins at the house of God: not parties; judgment.
Lot was warned, And when the Angels, though he didn't know they were Angels, when they went down, their message was to Sodom, "Come out of this sinful place. God has provided a way of escape for you. Come out of this sinful place."


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