<TITLE>11. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 And that's what's the matter today, all the nation goes into sin: whiskey joints, the people getting cold and formal, uncensored radio programs, uncensored television programs. And it's so fascinating, and sin is so beautiful until it attracts the attentions of the people. And if they're not truly borned again, where their attraction is on Christ and single minded, they'll go after that stuff. They'll act like those people. And they--the spirit of that will get on them.
It used to be the old Pentecostals wouldn't let their children even go to picture shows. The devil pulled one over on their eyes. He brought the picture show right in the house. That's right. And so you see how he got it? Slick, wise, sly as he can be. Don't you never underestimate him; you stay under the cross; it's the only place to stay for safety.
So the old timers (You see?), they stayed with God. And this prophet stayed with God, so God could speak to him. Usually, the people go like the nation goes: always has. And that's what's the matter today; the people go like the nation goes. If it's all right, the nation legalizes drinking, why, it's all right. If they legalize...

L-30 I seen a lady walking on the street the other day that any cop that had any decency about him, would've run that girl off the street, the way she was dressed. I never seen anything so vulgar in all my life: people running out of the filling station and things, gawking down the street at this girl. Where in the world has become of the decency of our people? God respected a woman to be one of the jewels of the earth. And how she'll sell herself out to the--the devil is more than... Well, it's because she doesn't know God; that's just all there is to it. See? Know that her body is sacred and she shouldn't do that, and they do it anyhow, because they think it's fine. Ricky and Elvis and all of them, they just glamour that and [Brother Branham whistles--Ed.] wo--wolf whistles. And they enjoy that. That ought to be a disgrace to any woman, would have one of them whistles at her like that.
Yes, you're a lamb, you're supposed to be some man's sweetheart and wife, some baby's mother. You ought to be ashamed to do things like that. The decency of real womanhood ought to... The--the respect you had for your mother ought to lead you different from that. That's right.

L-31 Notice how that it's just become... And preachers just let down, let it come right in the church. Finally it just gradually creeping in, a little bit like this. I set and talked to an old Methodist preacher not long ago, used to sing a song,
We let down the bars,
We let down the bars,
We compromised with sin;
We let down the bars,
The sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in?
Well, I think his song really expresses it; you let down the bars. That's all. Just let down the bars... One come in and he begin to talk it this a way, and--and they begin to look, he prospered a little bit and then say, "Well, if Jones can do it, Dr. Jones, I can too." And first thing you know there it goes.
And it's just like the old toboggan slide; you slip around on it. How many remembers old toboggan slide? You set down, keep slipping around real easy, seeing how close you get to the edge and all, before you knew it, [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] down you went. That's what's happened to the Pentecostal church. That's right. Don't see how close you can get to it; see how far you can stay away it.


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