<TITLE>13. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Notice, fundamentally speaking... Now, fundamental brother, I'm not... I don't want to pinch you too hard, but I want you to feel it. Notice, here come the--the bishop down, Balaam. And he got up there, and the king said, "Come down and curse this people." Said, "I don't want them over here; they can't one of them healing services over here. Why, they're always carrying on about healing," and said, "they got a brass serpent down there that they all look at and get well. And say they're eating manna out of heaven, I didn't see any of it. And oh, it's a bunch of nonsense." And said, "I want you to come down and curse them. We don't want none of that stuff mixed up in our denominations over here. So keep them out of here."
Notice, he was just as fundamental as Israel was. He built seven altars, seven sacrifices, seven rams, just exactly like they were doing down in the camp of Israel (See?), just the same sacrifices. But what Balaam failed to see was that smitten rock, that brass serpent, the shout of the camp, of the King. He failed to see that Pillar of Fire going before them.

L-39 That's what it is today. You say, "You belong to them Pentecostals. They're a bunch of holy-rollers." They used to be, but they're not no more. But so they--they belong to them, but they failed to see that Pillar of Fire. Now, so they can be sure to see it, we got a picture of it scientifically proved. Amen. Yes. They failed to see the Pillar of Fire, the shout of the camp, that there's a King among us (Amen.), King Jesus. They fail to see it. He failed to see that blood atonement. They say, "I know a Pentecostal man run off with another man's wife." I know Baptists and Presbyterian done the same, Catholics and all. That's right. So sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pot can't call kettle black. We're all human beings, and we're subject to all those things among our--our people. But God deals with us as individuals, whoever we are. So the Pentecostal blessing is right.

L-40 Notice, Israel and Moab; now it's the same. We find out that the--the church takes on...?... they go out and take on a denominational, bring in anything they want to. They just say, "Well now, if you'll come and be baptized in our church and stand up and say you believe Jesus the Son of God, then we'll--we'll baptize you in the church and put your name on the book."
Now, do you know the devil believes too? Sure, he does. I explained to you the other night, you--like trying to immerse this old turtle. It didn't do anything to him; it didn't help him any. It took fire to make him move. And so, that's what it takes for the church today: is a little Holy Ghost and fire to make it move.
But remo--remember, the Holy Spirit will not take that unclean person into His--the body of Christ. That shows that the body of Christ is not a denomination. For it's a mystical body of Christ. And by one Spirit we're all baptized into it. I think we take women, men, and take them to the waters to baptize them. And we find out if they're really not Christians in their heart, we should never baptize them.
I was going some time ago with a woman to the river, group of them. One woman walked out there; she got out of her car and come across, fixing her hair up, she said, "Going to take me down and dunk me, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Not you, you're not fit to go in." That's right. They was going to have a singing at the church, and some girl, she--she didn't have enough money to--to--to get her some kind of a hairdo like that she wanted to do to get up on the platform to sing. And her poor old mother washed over a washboard to get that hairdo for her. When I found it out, I wouldn't let her sing. I said, "You're not fit to sing up there." That should be kept clean. That's what's the matter today with the churches, the corruption and stuff, right from the pulpit plumb to the basement. That's right. Clean it out. That's right. We need the old fashion scouring pad again in the church.


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