<TITLE>20. Par 157-162</TITLE>L-157 Man was forced to make a decision. What was they forced first in the days of Christ? What was they forced to do? They were forced, first, to accept Him. He showed them His sign, His Seal; He was the Messiah. How did He show it? By just exactly what the Bible said He would do. He was a Prophet, and He discerned the thoughts in their mind. And they said, "He's a devil, Beelzebub." They were forced to make a decision. They could not hold it any longer.
And neither can the Pentecostal church, or the Baptist, or Presbyterians. The Holy Ghost has... Christ has arisen, and He's in the church. And they say, "This man baptizes in the Name of Jesus. He believes you don't have to speak with tongues for the Holy Ghost, and things like that, that that's not the initial evidence. He believes in women, our women all wearing their hair like that. I think it has nothing to do with it." Then why is God vindicating that this is the truth? Find out where it's at.

L-159 They refused His Messiahship when He showed them He was the Messiah. They were forced to say something.
And so are they today, turning it down, and won't sponsor it, and washing their hands from it. The decision is forced upon them. There's no middle road. We're at the end time. Man's forced to receive it or reject it. You've got to accept it or turn it away. It's forced upon America. It's forced on the Branham Tabernacle. It's forced on the Pentecostals, on the Methodists. It's forced everywhere. You have to take it or leave it. God has confirmed His Word, showing His signs, backing His ministry, showing exactly what He is, by proving that He's God. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me." That's right. "But if I do the works of the Father, then you believe the works." There you are. See, they can't, they--they--they can't find nothing in That, because That's true. Then why don't they receive it? It's because of denomination. They can't receive it, so they're forced now to make a showdown.

L-161 And in Ohio just a few days ago, the same churches that sponsored me a year ago; because I attacked it, and showed that it was wrong, there wasn't one of them, but one church, Brother Sullivan, would cooperate. I said, "I still had the same hand; I still have the same feet; I still have the same message; I'm still Brother Branham. What's the matter with me?" It's not me. The Holy Spirit still speaks; the Holy Spirit still does the same works; He still shows it. But you're forced. That's right. They're forced. And the great Holy Spirit falling right in their midst, and speaking the Words, and saying the things that He said then. Then still they...

L-162 Look here in California the other day. I think I can find it here; here it is. I was at Clifton's Cafeteria, the breakfast. And there a Baptist brother... After I got through just tearing the churches to pieces, telling them how they were doing evil, and the things they were doing, rejecting God. This Baptist brother come up here to put his arms around me to pray. And when he did, he started speaking like in tongues. When he... Now, he's a Baptist, knowed nothing about it. When he got through, he said...
And a woman standing back there from Louisiana, a Frenchman, said, "That wasn't an unknown tongue; that was French." And here sat another woman from Switzerland, Lausanne, which speaks French (I've been there.), she said that she interpreted it right. Here come a young man walking down through there (I never seen him; nobody had ever seen him.); he was the French interpreter for the U.N., said, "Exactly, it's right," said...


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