<TITLE>10. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Listen sister, there was only one woman in the Bible ever painted her face, and she didn't paint it to meet God, she painted it to meet man, and her name was Jezebel. That's right. You know what God did for her? He fed her to the dogs. So you see a woman all painted up, you can say, "Howdy do, Mrs. Dog Meat." That's just exactly what she is before the Lord. That's exactly. "Well," you say, "other women does it." But if you're a lamb, forfeit your rights. God wants you to live like a woman ought to live, like a lady ought to live.
It's getting so, at the time of the war, I went up... I was a game warden, I was going through the forestry, and there was--set down back there was some man, he was a welder. And I would--it's the dirtiest jokes I ever heard. I--I was even embarrassed to set there with a bunch of man. And so, this fellow looked down to me and he said, "Cold out there?"
And I said, "Yes, it is."
Said, "Are you a game warden."
I said, "Yes sir, I am." And come to find out, setting there beside him, it was a woman welder, overalls on, greasy, big pair of goggles on the top, rough, drink like a man, smoke like a man, cuss like a man. God don't intend that to be that way. God wants a woman...

L-38 When God made a man first, he made him both male and female in spirit. He made him in His own image, and God is a Spirit. When He separated him, and put him in flesh, he put the masculine spirit in a man, and the feminist spirit in a woman. And if anything's contrary to that, there's a bit of perversion there. Exactly. You see a woman trying to act like a man, there's a little something wrong there. The cell's crossed up somewhere. That's right. You see a man so sissified that he won't preach against sin or nothing else like that, to hurt somebody's feelings, there's a cross up there somewhere too, not only his natural birth, but spiritual birth.
Oh, what we need today is that a man be a man, a woman be a lady. God didn't intend to be that way. Dress different.
Say, "You're hammering us women." Now I'm going to tell you about the man. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes, and wear them shorts, and act like that, there's very little man in him, to my opinion. That's right. I've got my opinion of a man that'll let his wife do that. I--I sure have.
"Well, what's the matter?," you say. Well, brother, here's what it is. Man is not measured by strength this way.
"Oh," say, "that guy's a man; he's six foot tall, got muscles that big." I've seen a many of them weigh two hundred pounds, six foot and half tall, and not an ounce of man in them. Throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her.
Man's not measured... That's brute. That's brute, strength is. Man's measured by character. There never was a man like Jesus Christ, never measured up to Him. And the Bible said, "There's no beauty we should desire Him." Didn't look like a King; He was a little, bitty Fellow, probably stooped, little small in statue, but there never was a man like Him. Man is measured by character, not by brutal strength.

L-39 Well, you say, "Brother Branham, the rest of them does it." I don't care what the rest of them does, if you've got that gall of bitterness in you, there's something wrong somewhere, if you could stomach the world, and still say that you're a Christian, there's something wrong somewhere!
I was just eating dinner, there was two fellows setting there, ministers, collars turned around in the back, and they set there and drank three or four cocktails; wife and I, and the family setting there looked at them, told a few little smutty jokes to one another, got through eating, and pulled out a great big cigar like that, it looked like a dehorned Texas steer, setting there, smoking on that thing. Do you mean to tell me that the Dove would lead that? No, sir. That Dove is holy. Hallelujah. Bring in a holy oil. A goat might do that, but not a lamb. The fruit of the Spirit. That's no fruit of the Spirit.


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