<TITLE>10. Par 39-43</TITLE>L-39 People say, "Well, He's too good. He's too good to do it. God is so good."
I believe that. I believe God is good. A teenage boy said not long ago in our town, our city; he said, "You know what?" He said, "God is so good, Brother Branham." He said, "You know, God is so good He just let's me do anything." He said, "He don't care. He don't mind, 'cause He's just so good to me." Nonsense.
God is a good God. We hear so much about Him being a good God, and I believe He is a good God. That's right. He is a good God. But if He's a good God, He's got to be a just God. He can't give us a commandment to do something another, and we disobey it and expect to escape the judgment. He's also a God of wrath, a God of judgment. That's what makes Him a good God, because He keeps His Word. He watches over It.

L-40 So we can't expect to do wrong these things that we do and get by with it. No. We just... He's not too... He's not so... He's good; that is true. I don't want you to misunderstand me. But God is a good God. That is exactly right. But remember, the only way He can be good is to be just. And if He's just, He has to keep His own commandments. And if He keeps His commandments, it's wrong for Christians to intolerate with the world. It's wrong. We shouldn't do it. We're to be a different person.
And we're only venturing out presuming it without actual authority. God's Word gives us the authority, and that's the authority we should stand on: what God said.

L-41 Here Israel presumed that they were all right. He'd been a good God, where I just read in Numbers. He'd been a good God. He'd went down in Egypt, and brought them out of bondage. Sure, He was a good God. "Why, He even rained the--the manna out of heaven upon us." Good God, sure. It was very well.
But then when it come down to a time that His Word was to be fulfilled, when it come to Kadesh-barnea and the spies come back with the evidence of the land beyond, then they presumed that it would be all right if they bypassed that. God was angry with them.
And Moses said, "Don't go up there with the Amalekites, because you haven't fulfilled what God told us to do."
See, the commandment was, "I have given you that land. Go take it." And they come back with the evidence of it, but they doubted it. They wanted to walk back, and would rather go back to Egypt than to go on and take it, because they was afraid.

L-42 So many people's afraid today that somebody, your neighbor's going to say something against you. Many times the pastor is afraid to say something that a--about the Gospel. "I'm afraid it'll hurt somebody's feelings." They ought to be hurt. It should be hurt.
Sometimes the--the--the women are afraid, say, "Brother Branham..."
It's like this poor soul, she said, "I'm afraid to let... If I didn't cut my hair off, my husband and the rest of the women..."

L-43 Well, brother, don't presume on those things. Take the Word of God for it. You know you got a soul that's got to be saved? Do you realize death doesn't change that soul? Death doesn't change nothing but its dwelling place, whatever it is when it leaves you.
We go to a funeral home; we feel sorry for the--the persons that's dead. Sometimes we want to think of the best things we can for them. That is right. But Jesus so strictly said, "Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter in." So there's no halfway line. You presume he went to heaven; but according to the Word, he didn't do it. See, you just presume he did.


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