<TITLE>03. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Oh, I was marked then. I--I could just see the expression on those people's face yet, seeing their pastor on the floor with this--that little girl dancing around. Here I was right out there too. I never was on a dance floor in my life. And the... But I'd have to take it back and say, "It was on that one." But that was a church floor. So when we...
You know, all the devil's got, he--he--he copied it after some real thing that God's got. That's right. It's just exactly. The devil cannot create. He's just a perverter of what's been created. You see? So he cannot create; he's not a creator; he's a perverter.
What is--what is unrighteousness? Is righteousness perverted. See? It's legal for a man to take a wife, and be a--a husband to her, and family relationship. But the same woman, another woman on the same act, it condemn him and send his soul away. See? It's wrong. What is it? Righteousness perverted. See? And it's a... The truth is always right.
What is a lie? Is the truth perverted (See?) makes a lie. So that's the way all sin is, is righteousness perverted.

L-6 So when I used... Hear my mother say, she used to go to dances to the old, her and daddy on them kind of... See, them, they had the old fiddler come stand on the corner and play the fiddle and them Kentucky people, and pop, he didn't have any money, you know, you're supposed to have a little money to jingle in your pockets, and I see him go out to the keg get some nails, put them in his pocket, you know, and dance around, he and mama. And they'd win prizes. I can see her pull her skirt out like this, you know, and that jig dance, you know, right around, around one another like that. And I'd see pop. I thought, "That's--that's bad pop; them nails, that's not money. You see?" I knowed he didn't have any money; he had some nails in his pocket, jingling up and down like that." See? And they'd do that plumb on till around daylight. And some of the people leave home, the... Oh, the--old Kentucky people would come over, and they'd have the dances from one house to the other. And then, they'd go home of a morning, packing their shoes in their hands, 'cause their feet was so sore from dancing.
Well, if you can do that for the devil, then why not stay, and let's preach all night, and just praise God, and--and get in the Spirit, and see, sure. If that--if that's for eternal separation, what about Eternal Life? Let's... We can appreciate this as much, more than we should that, of course. But Satan would wear us out on this, right quick, or tell us, "We was too tired." But I tell you, you'd have an awful time with me, get me wore out on it.

L-7 I remember when I was healed of stomach trouble. He, Satan said, "Well, you better not eat." Said, "Because the doctor said, 'If you eat, you'd die. You have an ulcered stomach,' and said, 'it was just one big bloody ulcer.'"
But the Lord said, "He healed me." So I had to take somebody's word, so I--I took God's Word.
And so, oh, it like to burnt me up. I was just... Hot water running out of my mouth, and so, two or three days, I was going around holding my stomach like this. Said, "How are you feeling, Mr. Branham?"
I said, "Oh, I feel fine," tamping away like that.
Someone said, "You lied."
I did not, I was making a confession. Confess means "say the same thing." By His stripes, I was healed. So that's... That does it. See? I was making confession.
And so, Satan said to me, said, "You're bringing reproach."


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