<TITLE>12. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 But let's go over to the next little door. "Oh, stay away from that." What is it? "My own private life." Oh, you don't want nobody messing with your private life, telling you that you can't drink any more, you can't smoke any more, you can't go to your ladies' club and play cards any more. No, you don't want to fool with that. But I tell you: If you ever let Jesus become Lord of your heart, you'll quit it. He will satisfy every longing.
You're ashamed of Him. You're ashamed that you just--that you bring reproach upon your people, upon your friends. I'd rather every person in the world forsake me, but never let me bring reproach upon Him. Let me live by the Word, the Word of God. My private life...
"Now, we... Every afternoon we go so-and-so." And some people even Christians, oh, people that call themselves Christians, that profess to be sainted people, they're falling so far away. They don't want any more of the rulership of Christ.

L-39 I stay at a motel. And last night across from it was a--a little church. And, oh, I was setting in my room, and I heard something crying. I couldn't get the window open, because the windows don't open. I run down the steps and looked around the house.
I said, "That sounds good to me." And a bunch of people standing out in the yard laughing at the people across the street in a little meeting, crying over a soul, praying through to God. I said, "It sounds like heaven to me." My...
Let Christ come in; be Lord, free. "He who the Son makes free is free indeed."

L-40 If you're bound up by your social standing, your social prestige... American people is contaminated by social prestiges. Your churches is contaminated with gatherings of soup suppers, and bunco games, and lottery, and nonsense in the churches. Some of the preachers letting out early on Sunday morning so the--the members can go fishing or hunting. Fishing and hunting's all right, but it don't have to be done on Sunday. That's the Lord's day.
A lot of people let out their churches early for--in our country, because the saloons open at twelve o'clock. They can spend a little afternoon at peace... Any man that does that is wrong with God.

L-41 Excuse me, audience, if I make a rude interruption here. Would it be an evil thing for you, or an unusual thing, to see a pig in a barnyard, on the manure pile eating? Certainly not, that's his nature. But when you see a lamb on that same contaminated place, now that would really be something horrible, because it shows that that lamb has been perverted. He took the nature of a hog. And when I see a Christian that claims to be God's servant...
Setting yesterday at the restaurant, nice little lady come up; she said, "Are you connected with the bunch over there that's having this meeting?"
I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
She said, "I want to say that them people that's been in here are the nicest people I ever seen."


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