<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-14-7 Now, why is that? Please pardon this rude and most rude expression. I do not mean it to be mean; I say it from love. But the Holy Spirit says it's wrong for our women to cut their hair, and it's wrong for our women to wear little shorts and slacks and to make up their lips and face with paint; the Holy Spirit says it's wrong. But we want men to tell us that it's all right.
"As long as we follow me and Samuel..." They like to live through six days any way they want to, and go to church on Sunday morning--and are fine intellectual, college graduate with plenty of degrees can speak to them a little sermon that will--a few jokes in it that would tickle their ears and cause them to be entertained like some movie or television program, and say a little prayer over them, and send them home with kind of a--a self-satisfied security that they've done their religion.
That is not the will of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants you to live godly every day in the week and every night, separating yourselves from the things of the world. But the church don't want that. They want some man who can--who can interpret the Bible the way that they want to hear It. They won't listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking through the Bible.

L-15-3 Many of them want to say the days of miracles has passed. That's what tickles the people. They want to say there's no baptism of the Holy Spirit. The people don't want to act any different than what the rest of the world acts. They don't want to get on the street and to have their face washed, and--and men with clean countenance and not cigarettes in their mouth, and--and cigars, and pipes, and--and the things that men do; and women wants their hair cut up real short, and--and little dresses on, and showing their forms and things that they want. They--they want men who will tell them that's all right.

L-15-4 Then the other night here come a man to tell me that because that I'd preached against such, that a great denomination, about five of them, said, "We'll drop Brother Branham and have nothing else to do with him. You'll either call those tapes back and apologize for them or we'll drop you."
I said, "I'll stand with God's Word though it takes everything that's in my life. I'll remain with the Word and I..."
Said, "Well, shouldn't you not call back such-and-such a tape?"
I said, "I have never preached anything in my life that I was ashamed of. I'll call back no tapes or no records. I'll remain with what the Holy Spirit says; that I'll live by and die by." I'm not trying to say about myself now, but I'm just trying to give you an illustration of what's going on so you will see and understand. It's people wants to be led by man.

L-16-1 They didn't want Samuel. Then before they anointed Samuel king--or Saul king (Pardon me.), Samuel came to them again. And I'm going to speak just in language like he would've said it today. You may read it.
He said, "What is the matter with God being your King?"
"Well, we don't see God."
"Well, I am His representative." Samuel said, "Have I ever told you anything wrong? Have I ever prophesied anything that didn't come to pass just as I said it would do? Have not I told you the Word of the Lord? And I will ask you this: Have I ever come to you and begged any of your money? Have I ever took anything from you? Have I ever brought you anything but straight THUS SAITH THE LORD? And God has vindicated it every time that it was the truth, and He sent a thunderstorm and rains." You know the Scripture you--right there to prove that Samuel was God's mouthpiece.
And as Samuel perfectly represented today, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God's Mouthpiece, that speaks just exactly what the Bible said, that believes just what the Bible said and won't vary from it one bit. But they wanted somebody who could tell them different.


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