<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-35-1 If he's a true disciple of Christ, he'll lead you to the cross. "Oh, Brother Branham, I went out and spoke in tongues." That don't mean nothing; a mule did that one day. Yes, sir. That's... Yeah, I don't mean to make fun of God's holy Word. I believe in speaking in tongues, but devils speak with tongues. A people can speak in tongues and live any kind of a life. But I mean that the devil's got a--a copy of everything that God did. And he can copy everything but the genuine birth of Christ; and he can't do that, 'cause you have to die first, then the Word raises you up. How do you know when you're alive? When that Word, every word of It's made flesh in you; everything that the Bible says, you say the same thing, and it comes to pass, just exactly like He said it. That's when it is. When you--when your spirit agrees with Him (He is the Word.), when your spirit agrees with what He said and the Spirit makes Itself manifest through His Word, then you're living. See? You're through shopping then, and swapping, and all the rest of it. It's all settled.

L-35-2 Yes, the people are shopping to find where they can live the worldliest at: Pentecostals and all. Don't you Pentecostals make fun of them Baptists and Presbyterian. Pot can't call kettle dirty. No, sir. No, indeedy. It's all the same.
So they're shopping to find where they can go into a church and join an organization, that they can be popular, well-thought-of in the city, the mayor of the city goes to the church (which now, he could go to a church and be borned again. Now, I'm just saying in--in the run), the biggest church in the city.

L-35-4 I know people right today that belong to a little organization up here on the road, a little church, but it was too little; so they said, "So our--our children will--and we can be a little better thought of," they took their letter from one church and went down to another, a bigger organization. And besides, this other one had a picture show in the basement and they had play bunco, and everything like that, you know, and have these games, and so forth like that. So they got the children down there; they had a--got a pool table down in the bottom (See?) so they can play pool, and have recreation, and things like that, and have a ten minute Sunday school class and a coffee break, and a break so the pastor can smoke cigarettes, get outside. Oh, yes, that's right; I wouldn't say it 'less I knowed what I was talking about. That's right. Oh, sure. See, they're shopping.

L-36-1 If they can go ahead and live the kind of life that they want to live, do anything they want to, and still be promised Eternal Life hereafter, they're shopping for that. I'm telling you: if you want to shop, come to Calvary. That settles it. Die to your dirty self, your sins, and be borned again anew. "And if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." That's what the Bible says. That's right.

L-36-2 Say, "I don't believe in holiness." No wonder you can't. But the Bible said, without it no man shall see God. God's holy. If God lives in you, you're holy too. And tell me you can go out on these parties and drink a little sociable drink. Why, the Pentecostals do that: go out on these parties, and take them women out there and live in these places, and go down and strip theirself off in bathing suits, and go in swimming before men, when your husbands, and brothers, and sisters and so forth, and Pentecostal people going out in bathing suits and calling yourself a member of the Bride? The Bride of Christ don't do them things.


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