<TITLE>14. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 Now, we notice that... What did they do, the borderline believers? "For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened, and been made partakers and--of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the good world to come, and--and had a knowledge of the truth," received the knowledge of the truth, walk up and look into the land and say, "Well, I just can't do it," go back. That's exactly what them borderline fellows did in that day. And what did they do? They every one perished in the wilderness.
When we think that God's obligated to us because we are so and so... The Methodist has nothing to do into it, the Baptist has nothing to do into it, the Oneness has nothing to do with it, the Assemblies has nothing to do into it, then we're wrong... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-46 Don't watch your organization; watch the way the Spirit's a leading. And if the Spirit is leading you, It'll never lead you contrary to the Word. It'll never misbehave Itself uncommonly, long as It stays in that Word.
What did God do? He left them there for forty years in the wilderness. That's exactly what He done to Pentecost. We had the initial evidence, speaking in tongues. Oh, said, "We've had Divine healing." They did too. They had a brass serpent; they had a smitten rock. Oh, sure. "Oh, Brother Branham, let me tell you, we Oneness, we Assemblies, we so and so, we shouted; we danced in the Spirit." Oh sure, they did too. But they stayed out of the promised land forty years.
Did you ever think of what they done? Oh, God blessed them, didn't He? He said He did. They raised good crops; they had good families; they stayed there; and they was blessed and prospered. Why, some of us Pentecostals are--boy, some of them, why, we're worth millions of dollars, lot of them. Sure, we--God's prospered us.

L-47 I stood not long ago in a--a meeting. A brother setting here now was setting present, Brother Fred Sothmann, when I was talking one night in Kingston, Jamaica, and I was with the Full Gospel Business Men, the very man that I used to...?... in to try to bring my message to the people to show that through this organization of business men... Why, then the business men of the church comes out to that meeting, it'll bring... Well, if the pastor don't come it kinda embarrasses him. So that way I can work in there to try to get the message of the Lord to the people that I see, my brethren, my brethren.
Then what happened? I--I'd preach kind of roughly against it. And this certain leader stood up, and he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I'll tell you..."
I said, "What's the matter with you business men? What are you doing? You're at that business meeting tonight; everything you testified to those Jamaicans was, 'I had a little bitty of business on the corner; it wasn't prospering at all. Hallelujah, I got the Holy Ghost. God give me a fleet of Catholics, or--differ--or Cadillacs, and--and great big cars, and great big this, and He give me a new home; He give me all this.'" Them man's got them things. They don't want to hear that. That's contrary to Pentecost. Pentecost, they sold everything they had, distributed it amongst the poor, and went out with nothing. They went out with Jesus alone. That's right.


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