<TITLE>17. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 Now, as Philip set there and said, "Yes, that is right. And when we went and got Nathanael, and Nathanael said so, and Andrew. All of them have testified." Said, "Yes, as it was in the days of Sodom, how that we know those things that--that He spoke would take place."
Now, He said, "Yes, my heart burned within me. I fell upon my face, and when He told me where I was at and told me who my father was, and when we all stood there and seen that woman of Samaria, and He told her that she had five husbands, and--and then tell her the... She said she had no husband. And He said, 'You got five and the one you're living with now is not yours.' And she cried out, 'Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh He will tell us all these things, but Who are You?'" See?
Now,... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Pray all night, and have them little meetings, stand on the corner, beat tambourines and the police run you off one corner, you go around the corner of the alley and start again... See?
Then was trying to get the message over. But we got to a place now that our preachers are intellectual, and oh, they're Doctors of Divinity, and great big men, and things. That's too bad it ever happen, but it--it--it happened anyhow. See? And we're no longer in the alley any more. We're right out here like the rest of the churches, the big buildings. And one's trying to outdo the other one, and get more in his Sunday school, and the other one and everything like that.
You know what? I think all together, we've went off without the Lord. See? God is interested in us saving souls, not building buildings, which the buildings are all right. But He wants souls saved. Jesus never did commission His disciples to build a church. He never did commission them to make a hospital. All those things are all right, but He said, "Preach the Gospel, and these signs shall follow them that believe."

L-47 But we've got off on to intellectual signs: grandchildren. But God don't have grandchildren. You know, God only has sons and daughters, not grandchildren. God... But we've got Pentecostal grandchildren. Because papa and mama belonged to the Pentecostal church, we come in. We come in with them. They brought us in, and put us on the cradle roll, and we become members of the Pentecostal church. That's grandchildren. That ain't no good.
We got... Every man that comes to God's got to be born of the Spirit of God. Then you're sons and daughters of God, with an experience, something in there, that God lives, and you know He's real. That's the real son and daughter.
If you're--if you're a Methodist and a son of God, amen. You're a Methodist son of God. If you're Pentecostal and a son of God, all right, but don't be a grandson Methodist or a grandson Pentecostal. Be a son and daughter by the birth, the new birth, the supernatural, the Holy Ghost baptism in your heart. Then you're sons and daughters.

L-48 Now, they find... Satan looked over, and he found them going off on a tantrum like that. He said, "This is my opportunity." So he raised his slimy head up over the hill, and begin to blow across the lake you know. [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] A wind come. Poison winds begin to lift up the bottom of the sea and toss the little boat.
And, you know, when that coldness comes in and we get to thinking about intellectual ministers, "Well, my pastor has a D.D. My pastor got a--a Bachelor of Art degree. Our pastor come from so-and-so seminary." That don't mean anything, not a bit. I'd rather my child would be with a man that didn't even know his abc's and found Christ in his heart, than to be with one that knowed all the intellectuals. That's right.


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