<TITLE>15. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 If you believe in Divine healing, accept Him. If you believe the Holy Ghost is right, stay there, not for ten minutes, but until He comes. Don't take no substitute. Stay there till the real thing's there, when you've passed from death to Life. And brother the birds will sing different, everybody, all the ones you hated, you'll love, and everything will be different when you do. Why do we substitute something instead of it? God's going to say, "Why?" Then we're going to have to answer.
Now, that is right, brother. You believe that. All of you do, you men. Now, that's--that's where we're standing. We should be a church on fire with faith, brother, burning, my, my, instead of that we look like a bunch of little coyotes backed up in a corner. "And now, I'm--I'm leaving..." Uh-huh, you're backing up. Stand up for a toe-to-toe to it. If we're Pentecostal be Pentecostal.

L-58 If we're not, why don't we just break the thing down, and consolidate with some other of our denominations, our Methodists brethren here, our Baptist brethren, our Pent... out Presbyterian or... Why don't you all go back and be Catholic. That's the oldest one in the bunch of them. See, go back and be that. But if we're Pentecostal, let's be Pentecostal by experience. Rise, shake yourself. Yes. Said, "Go tell him. What's the matter?" Why would the Pentecostal people...
A girl asked me the other day, said, "Brother Branham, they're beginning to wear a scandal skirt."
I said, "What's that?"
"Oh," she said, "the girls are wearing skirts that's cut down this way that shows their underskirt. Do you think it's wrong for a girl to do that?"
I said, "Sister, what in the world does the Pentecostal Holy Ghost filled girl want to show her underskirt for?" I'd just like to ask one of them. If she'd been right with God, she wouldn't have had to ask that.

L-59 I got a little Bible when I first started out, I wrote a little book; there should be if somebody say, "Is it wrong to smoke, is it wrong to drink, is it wrong to do so-and-so?" Like that.
I said, "Don't ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind. If you love the Lord with all your heart, you don't smoke, chew, or drink any shine." And that's... I still stand by that. When the love of God's in your heart, you have got no time for nothing else. You're sold out. The Bible says, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's because the love of God's not even in you." And your own life tells about it. I hope that's plain enough, I won't have to get any plainer. See? But that's true. "By their fruits you know them."
So shake ourselves. Let's be Pentecostal or--or be something else. If we are not Pentecost, let's quit saying we are (See?), until we get back to the real Pentecostal experience, get back to faith, daring faith. Them disciples sealed their death with their faith. Oh, faith of out fathers living still in spite of dungeon, flame, or sword. That's what we want, real genuine faith.

L-60 You Methodists need it; you Baptists need it; you Pentecostals need it; all of us need it. God's going to say, "Why? Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there, then why? Is there no--is there no prophet in Israel, is there no God there?" Has Pentecostal lost their God? Don't they have any more gifts in amongst Pentecostals? Have they no more prophets, gifts of prophecy, prophets, preachers, pastors, evangelists, no one else to speak in tongues and give message? One thing, you don't reverence them gifts enough. Another thing, you don't prove them first. Then you get every kind of spirit in there speaking. When you get that spirit that don't say something that's right, get it out of there. You don't want a substitute. God's got a real one for you.


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