<TITLE>24. Par 210-218</TITLE>L-210 We find a beautiful young girl of sixteen, setting in a church, popping chewing gum, and cutting up, and carrying on, going outside, and pulling her clothes to a little place where she looks sexy to twist herself down, and it isn't but a few settings of the sun, and she's old and wrinkled, and the flesh dropping off of her. And that little body that she twisted, and let a spirit live in there that controlled her, has throwed her morals to the dogs, and have to answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery. "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already." Not realizing that she's nothing but dust, and going back to the dust, for, "Dust thou art, and dust thou shalt return." What is it? If she could only realize, and stop, that's an uncertain sound.
"Well, now, So-and-so on the television, So-and-so at school," trying to impersonate certain little personalities at school... Don't you never let that be your pattern. Look to God.

L-212 Oh, uncertain sounds. Elections... How that the time has come now, uncertainty.
If we had time, let's just turn to it. I'm seeing the sisters all putting them Scriptures down there. Now, in II Timothy 2, let's read just for a few minutes. II Timothy the 2nd chapter, and beginning with the 3rd chap... II Timothy the 3rd chapter, let's just read. Listen here.
Know this also... (Now, this is the Spirit.)... Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Now, that's the Holy Spirit that you hear in the church this morning, speaking way back yonder two thousand years ago, A.D. 66 of this day.
For man shall be lovers of their own selves... boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Look at that day today. You speak of holy, and they call you holy-roller. Look at children, how they do. "Juvenile delinquency," they talk of it. Now, I'm going to differ with you, parents. It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. See, that's what it is.

L-216 Some of you call these old Kentucky mothers up here, how illiterate Kentucky was. Them old mammies up there, with an old sunbonnet on like that, and talk about her being so illiterate and don't know her abc's. She might not be so classy, but I tell you, let one of her daughters come in like some of yours some night, clothes twisted off of her, and lipstick all over her face, and her hair all mangled up. She won't say, "Did you have a great time, darling?" She'd grab a slat off of something, and she'd--she'd know the last time she went out. And then you call it illiteracy. Yeah. That's it.
... unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affections, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good, (Hates the people that try to live right. See?)
Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;
My, they'll spend millions of dollars to go to a ball game, or something like that, or where some movie star's going to do a certain something or another like that, just like the old Roman circus many years ago. But when it comes to going across the street to a Holy Ghost meeting, they'll set and laugh on their porch at it.

L-218 Well, you say, "Well, Brother Branham, them's communists." All right, let's see what the 5th verse says.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:...
Denying the power of what? The power of God. "Having a form of God, but denying the power of God: going to church and belonging to a denomination, but denying the very existence of the Holy Ghost that's in the Church, making it act and do with the very same things it did at the beginning. Oh, my. See how that denominational curse is? Mm. I hope you don't angry with me, but I hope you get it in the light that I'm trying to say it in. See? Now, notice this.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such... (What's He saying to the Church?)... turn away. (Turn away from it. Come out of it.)


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