<TITLE>19. Par 172-186</TITLE>L-172 And the pastor, after while, after they got through all the other things, he finally had about fifteen minutes to talk. So he got up and he said, "The Lord is good."
She said, "Praise God. That's right. Hallelujah." And everybody stretched their neck like a gander, looking around, "Who was it?"
And after while, he said, "Uhm. Uhm. Uhm." He said, "Christians in every age should be valiant, great, fine Christians," or something on that order.
She said, "Praise God. That's right." And they all looked around.
And he, "Uhm," looked over to his deacon board.
And that deacon board got the idea. Goes back and takes the little woman by the arm, and walks her out the door, said, "You're interrupting the pastor."
You're dead and don't know it. Yes. Oh, what's your stained glass windows going to amount to? What's your fine plush pews? And what's all your big congregation going? Just straight to hell, as a martin to its box. For if you don't have the Spirit of God, you're lost. 'Less you're borned again you cannot see the Kingdom of God.
That's bitter. It's like I used to take castor oil, I said, "Mama, I can't even stand it."
She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you no good." So I guess that's about the way this too.

L-181 Oh, if you would speak to them... Oh, big, fine buildings, and so forth, oh, they--they--oh, they... You go to their church, you'd happen to say... Go to their church and say, "Well, I'll tell you; you are Pentecostals?"
"Oh, yes. Uh-huh. Sure, we're Pentecostals."
"You believe in being borned again?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I want to show you something..."
"Oh, look at this building. You know how much the building--this building cost? That cost three quarters of a million dollars to put this up. You know, we used to didn't have it that way. We--we used to be down there at the alley." Uh-huh, and look around, you find out all these great things that they got. Yes, sir. And then they say, "Oh, we--we got all these big things." But they have no burden for lost souls. They always want to show you how much building they got. "Look at our Sunday school record, how big it is." What good does that do if they haven't got the Holy Ghost?
"Rich, increased in goods, have need of nothing," that's what He said. "You think that, but don't know that you're poor, wretched, miserable, blind, naked. And don't know it." See? That's it.

L-184 Oh, sure, they say, "You know what? We used to be... The little church we used to use is in the back part; this is the big one now." And I tell you, no burden for souls, but they've got to see that all these things are taken care of. The ladies' aid, and all these other things, all has to be taken care of, but no burden for lost souls. Man, what--what this church has got into.
They were not burdened for souls, but they were burdened with wealth. That's right. They had the wrong burden. They had a burden for their wealth but not a burden for lost souls. The Scripture said, "They didn't know that they were wretched (Oh.), miserable, blind."

L-186 They think that they could take money and convert the world. "Oh, if we could just get a program on, that we could get a lot of money here, I believe we could...?... convert the world. If some of the rich people in our church, Brother Branham, if we could just get them to dig out, and I believe that we could start a society that would--that would go around and--and convert the world. We could take airplanes and drop literature all over Africa and things like that. If we just had some money..."
Brother, the world won't be converted by money. The world will be converted by the Holy Ghost, powerful preaching of the Holy Ghost and the cross will be the only thing that'll convert the world. God's program is not money. It's the Holy Ghost; that's what God's program is for the Laodicean church age or any other church age. Yes, sir.


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