<TITLE>08. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Said, "When I come out of this institution," said, "then I was a Catholic. I started right back at drinking and prostitution again. The law picked me up and give me four years in the woman's penitentiary. When I was in there, I served well and kept away from the things, 'cause I was--had--I could not find the things in there to drink and so forth."
Said, "When I come out, it didn't do me one bit of good. I joined another church. I've joined two or three churches." And said, "Now, they finally declared me insane." And said, "They just watch me." Said, "I'm a--a mental case."
"Why," I said, "you certainly do not talk like a mental case," trying to find her spirit (You see?), see what she was--what was wrong. And I just couldn't pick it up somehow. And she said... kept talking.

L-32 And I said, "Have you ever thought of getting married, and have a loving kind husband, and a little babies, like all real mothers long or real women like to have, little ones. Like... See your little girl pushing her little baby cart with a little dolly in it. And you know, 'cause she's to be a mother too. That's the reason she has to mother something."
And she said, "Oh, yes. I've thought about it, Brother Branham. But" she said, "who would have me?" Said, "What could I promise a man? Not even a home, I'm no good." And when a person can realize that they're no good, then they're in condition; they can be made something out of. But when you think that you're just the top when you're nothing, then you're past hopes.
Jesus said in the Bible there, "Thou art naked, miserable, wretched, blind and don't know it." Could you imagine someone on the street that was miserable, wretched, naked, and blind, and did not know it, and you walk up to them saying, "You're naked, sir." "You're naked, sister. Come from..."
"You shut your mouth. I'll take care of my own business. You take care of yours." See? There you... That's a hopeless case.

L-33 But when you can--a man can realize his condition, that he is without God, without hope, and his sins are not under the Blood, and he's--he's a sinner going to a devil's hell, and doesn't know he is doing that, then he is in a miserable condition.
So this girl had something that you could work on. And I... After she talked a few moments, the vision struck. And I saw then where it was. And I said, "Young lady, did it ever occur--occur to you that--that all these things, these reformings, and turning pages, and so forth, has just been a ritualistic routine, from joining one church to another, and making vows, and so forth?"
She said, "Yes, sir. It has."
And I said, "Did you ever think that it was the devil that's making you do those things that you don't want to do?"
She said, "Mr. Branham, I have always believed that." Those big black eyes flashed.
And I said, "That's what it is, sister. You couldn't sign pledges or join churches enough, if you had books as high as the building. Would never do you one bit of good. It's the devil that's driving you to those things, making you do things, a slave to him."


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