<TITLE>23. Par 76-79</TITLE>L-76 I'll tell you, brother, it's... What we need's a revival. That's just exactly. That's what this nation needs is to get back to God. Yes, sir. When you--you show up... Your actions shows what it is; people's action shows, just exactly. If you love the world or the things of the world, the Bible says the love of God is not even in you. That's right.
Oh, you join the church; that's right. But this is one we're talking about. You don't join this, you're born into it. I been in the Branham family fifty-one years, they never did ask me to join the family. Why? I was born in it. I--I'm was a Branham by birth. That's the way you are a Christian; you're born into the church of the living God. You're born into it by birth. You're a Christian by birth.

L-77 Now, Jesus came into the temple... I can imagine those mothers in them days, you know, all of them up there with little babies, with their little booties, and their little needlework, you know, and all done, their little fancy blankets, and the society women, you know, talking about... And first thing you know, in come little Mary packing this little baby with this swaddling cloth (See?) a wrapped around Him from the yoke of an ox. Walked by, I can hear some of them say, "...?... Look there. See that holy roller." Or, you know, what I... maybe that's wrong. See? But I said...
Said, "Look at that woman. You know what? She married... that baby was borned out of holy wedlock. Don't tell me. Where's there's a little smoke, there's bound to be some fire somewhere. Yes, sir. I'll tell you, boy, that's all there is to. I'll tell you, she's one of them. You better watch her. See? Keep your distance from her."
That's the way the lukewarm believer tries to do to the real believer. "Oh, he's lost his mind, went off on the deep end. There's something wrong. And how he trusts God for this." He said, "Oh, the days of miracles has passed. No such thing as Divine healing." Hm. All right.

L-78 But in her little heart she knowed Who that Baby belonged to. She knowed. And so does every man that's born of the Spirit of God, he knows where he stands. He knows what revelation, and Who give him that revelation.
It... Paul said, "I never come to you, preaching to you enticing words of man, that your wisdom, but that your faith would be built in a wisdom of man, but I come preaching to you the power of the Holy Spirit."...?... That's it, brother, simple and plain, just plain to believe it, that's all. God said so and that settles it. That's--that's the whole thing.
She knowed Who that Baby belonged to, no matter what any of the rest of them... I can see them say, "Now, keep your distance. Don't go around her. Don't have nothing to do with her. She's... just keep away from her."
She didn't care whether they did or not, didn't make her no difference. She knowed Who this Baby belonged to. She knowed Who it was. That's right.

L-79 You know what? When you got the Holy Ghost, you know what happened to you; you was there. You know where It come from. Didn't come from some seminary, or cemetery, or... It come--it come from God. Well, both about the same dead places, so then...?... so then...
She knowed where this Baby come from. She just watched and said, "Yes, sir." She knowed, she went walking on, like that, not paying no attention, talking to her baby. She didn't have time to associate with them--all them societies.
That's what's the matter with our church today; they got the lady's society, and the men's society, and this society, and ball games, soup suppers, and everything else. And prayer meetings is left off, you know. No more... And the Holy Ghost promised He'd only seal those who sighed and cried for the abominations done in the city.


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