<TITLE>08. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Oh, it's a pity. But let us look at it. Notice, down there was the sinner. Look what the sin was. Men had so defiled themselves until they had no more common use for the wife. Look at the world today. So much sin has crept into the church and into the nation till it's honeycombed with sin. That's right.
I know this sounds old fashion. A minister taking me not long ago aside and said, "Brother Branham, do you know why your ministry is not the greatest ministry in America today?"
And I said, "I don't care what it is in America; I want to know what it is on the books of Heaven, up there, what it is there."
He said, "Well, I'll tell you. It's because that you rebuke the people in such a way." Said, "You--you--you bawl them out, and it hurts them." Said, "If you'd just stop doing that, then," he said, "your ministry would grow and--and so forth."
I said, "Sir, let me tell you something. When it comes to a place that I have to compromise on the Word of God, then I'll stop and leave the field and let God call somebody else to do it." How can you hold your peace? If you go to be honest, be honest. Tell me one in any age... Tell me. I said, "You called me a prophet, I don't call... You said yourself that. You was the one that said it. And then if I... If the Lord anoints me for something, how could I hold my peace then? How can you do it? Somebody's got to cry out against it. That's right.

L-29 God's able to raise up children unto Abraham from the stones. But we must be honest and tell the truth about it. Did you notice... Oh, certainly, the ministry in America does not nothing like it does overseas. Certainly not, because America is a burnt over territory. She's finished. It's raked over and back and forth.
Jesus said the Kingdom's like going to the one that took a net and throwed into the sea and gathered from it. Sometimes he had crawfish; he had serpents, and lizards, and frogs, and fish. After a while, you don't get nothing but a net full of lizards and frogs. All the fish is already in.

L-30 So, we just seine until the last one is seined out, and then Jesus will come. How do we know who they are? You just throw the Gospel net and draw it. That's why I come here with my brethren, stand on the corner somewhere and throw the net with them, reach out with my ministry and pull it and say, "There they are, brethren." What is it?
Now, but this is a burnt over territory. Did you notice back there when I first come to you in Oregon? People was coming from everywhere, thousands times thousands crowding in. Oh, it was fine. I was just going along praying for the sick. But when I come back and begin to lay the truth down, laying the Gospel down, oh, many turned aside.

L-31 Compare that with the days gone by with our Lord. When He was healing the sick and the afflicted, many people come to Him. When He fed five thousand, many people came. But when He begin to set down and tell them the truth, what happened? All of them begin to turn away. He... The seventy even turned.
And He said to the disciples, "Will you go also?"
And Peter made those state--and great words that said, "To whom shall we go?" See? But now, that didn't stop His miracles. He went right on. And and few days after that, He--He opened a man's eyes that didn't even have eyeballs in the sockets. These miracles got greater but the crowds got less, and He become more less popular, until they crucified Him on the cross.

L-32 And if we have the Spirit of God, it'll be exactly the same way, because the Spirit of God is the same, and the people remains the same. That's right.


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