<TITLE>15. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 This leader that night stood up; he said, "But Brother Branham, I want to tell you something right now." He said, "That's when the Pentecostal, that group of people made their greatest mistake they ever made, when they sold their homes, and they give it to the poor." I'm not asking nobody to sell your homes; I'm just asking you to follow Christ. But I'm telling you--I'm just quoting Scripture. And then he said, "Well..."
I said, "Well, brother, they were led by the Holy Spirit."
Said, "Well, they made a mistake."
I said, "You mean to tell me that the Holy Spirit would lead a man to a mistake?"
He said, "It proved it. I can prove it to you by the Scripture."
I said, "Stand on your feet and do it." I said, "Now..."
He said, "Here you are: As soon as the persecution rose against the church those people had no place to go. They done sold their homes and give it to the poor. They just wondered about.'"
I said, "Exactly what God wanted them to do. And the message was scattered throughout all the country." If they'd had a home they'd have went back to it. But they had no place to go; therefore, they roamed and scattered the message. That's exactly what God wanted them to do. People don't want to take that road no more. They don't want that. Oh, no, sir.
All us Americans are feathered and fat, and we--we just snuggle down, and we don't even have to set and listen at it. We just get up and go home. Sure, that's right. They don't want it.

L-49 Thing of it is, you remember who the Holy Ghost is going to seal in the last days, you know what the Bible said? "Those who sigh and cry for the abominations did in the city," Ezekiel the 9th chapter. Tho... I want to ask some of you people. How many fingers can you raise up tonight of any person in this city, or your city you come from, that's sigh and cry day and night for the abominations of the city? Raise your hands. Tell me, that, "I can point out five people in my city. I can point out two people." Or can I point out one person? If you can't, keep your hands down. There's not a hand up. There you are. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." See what I mean? We've lost the zeal. The--the Pentecostal church has got to come back to its original condition.

L-50 What have we done? We've just got fattened up, and furred up, and set down, and let it go, dressing like the world, acting like the world, going to worldly entertainment, doing the things the world did, having our organizations, denominations, competing with them, and our church buildings and everything, preaching... "Oh, yes, hallelujah." As David duPlessis once said, "That's grandchildren; that ain't sons of God. And God don't have any grandchildren." God's not grandpa; He's Father. Right.
And what do we do? We bring in our children, put them on the roll. And the sinner out there, and he joins the Pentecostal church, and say, "Oh, isn't that wonderful, he come to be Pentecostal." A grandchild...
A real son of God's on fire. He pulls no punches. He stands there knowing nothing but Christ and Him crucified. Nothing holds him but God. He's led by the Spirit. Nothing else bothers Him. He follows the Spirit wherever It goes.
The living creatures, like in the book of Ezekiel where the wheels went, the living creatures followed it. Now, notice, the living creatures, not the dead ones, the living creatures...


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