<TITLE>09. Par 94-104</TITLE>L-94 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom..." Look what kind of a life they were living. And Jesus compared that day with this day: sinful.
Watch when Lot went to tell his people. They laughed at him, made fun of him. "And the sins of the city vexed his righteous soul." The Angels' message didn't stir them, had no effect on them. But they were asked to come out, because judgment was upon the city, and God was going to bring a storm of fire upon the city. And they refused to walk. They refused to come out. They were satisfied with their sins.

L-96 People today seem to be so comfortable in sin, because we own a new car, because we can eat three meals a day, sleep on a clean bed. That's wonderful. But that would be good, but we forget God when prosperity comes like that. I think we've been so... We preachers and we Christians has been so interested in--in the program of building our churches, and getting a better church, or something like that, or a bigger church, better pews, or, you know how and what I mean. And we've left off the main thing: judgment, righteousness, power of the Holy Ghost, resurrection, eternal judgment.
The angel never failed to preach the message. Although they tried to stop them, but their message went on just the same.

L-98 Now, did you notice, it's just like a man that says, "I'm going to refuse to believe the sun's a-shining. I won't have nothing else to do with the sun," closes his eyes, and goes down in his basement of his house, and said, "I just refuse to know the sun is a-shining."
"Why," you say, "Brother Branham, that man would be something mentally wrong with him."
Well, a man that would reject Jesus Christ has the same grounds. The Holy Spirit is more real than the sunshine. The sun will fail, but the Holy Spirit can't fail. It don't only light for the sense of sight, but It lights for the soul, a Light of glory that leads us to God, that rejects--or projects, rather, Calvary to us, and the sufferings of the Lord Jesus, the oncoming judgment, and the escape for those who want to come. I'd rather be totally blind, physical, and have my spiritual sight, than to be totally blind, spiritual, and have my physical sight. I want to have spiritual sight.

L-101 Notice, what would be wrong with that man? Those, his friends would come and say, "Jim, John," or whatever his name might be, "you are wrong. Come out of that old dingy basement, musty."
And he would stand and say, "I'll tell you; I'm satisfied where I am." He doesn't want the--the welcomed sunshine. He doesn't want its healing rays. He doesn't want its beauty, it--its warmth for his life. Something would be wrong with the man.
And so is the man or a woman who wants to stay in the dingy world, shut up in the musty sin of unbelief, and say, "In... The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as Divine healing. There's no Holy Ghost." It's because you're refusing to come out of the must and dens of the devil, and of the hell, and of sin, and of pride and walk in the Light of the Gospel, which will bring you warmth.

L-104 Oh, how comfortable it is to see the oncoming judgments, and feel that comfort feeling of the Holy Spirit. Hear them talk of atomic bombs, and just think what's happened, a peace that passes understanding. Why, the bomb won't no more go out of the gun until we'll be in the Presence of Jesus with Eternal Life; we old people, back young again; the babies, up to an age with no more death or sorrow. Oh, what a wonderful thing. You mean a man would refuse to come out and walk in that? There's something wrong with him.
Finally, if he doesn't get the sunlight, he turns pale. He gets real pale, sick sets in on him.


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