<TITLE>31. Par 136-140</TITLE>L-136 Now, we're just coming as solemnly as we know how to come. Little later on in one of the meetings along in the churches, you'll know why I'm doing this. I haven't time to say it tonight, and go into it. But I--you'll understand why I'm doing this. I believe God's giving His church His call. It's the last--about the last one we're going to have. See? It's... Something's going to happen, and I don't know when. It--it might happen to you before morning; it may happen to me before morning.
But, brother, sister, can we afford to take any chance on any one little thing, just no matter what it is? "Guilty of the least is guilty of the whole." You must be clean, washed in the Blood of the Lamb. The least sin will keep you right away. See? If the Angels look dirty before Him, what would we?

L-137 Now, I'm just wait just a moment or two longer, 'cause there might be some other soul. Again, one move now and then coming up. I want you to come in dead earnest now.
Now, no doubt at all, but what many of you standing here at the altar has had experiences of different things. Maybe you have shouted, cried, spoke in tongues, danced in the Spirit, you brothers and sisters. No doubt but what you have. And them--them things are fine, very fine.

L-138 But do you know when the Hebrews, the 6th chapter, "The rain cometh on--or oft to prepare it, dress it for which it's for. But thorns and thistles is nigh unto rejecting, whose end is to be burned." How did they know the difference? The same Spirit, the same Life, the same water that fell upon the wheat fell upon the thorns too. And the thorns, and the briars, and the--and the weeds was just as happy and refreshed with the same rain. And people can set in the church, friends, and receive the same kind of experiences.

L-139 Now, don't be deceived in this, friends. See? You can receive the same experience by the same Holy Spirit that someone setting by you received, and still not be that. The sun shines on the just and the unjust. The rain falls on the thorns and on the wheat. It's sent for the wheat. The Holy Spirit's sent in the church for the consecrated saints, but those setting there enjoy it. Sure. But by their fruits they're known. "Shall we pluck them up?" said, "then?"
"No. Let them grow together. And at that day the Angels will go forth and gather all the briars and creepers, and will burn them. But the wheat will be gathered to the garner. By their fruits you shall know them." That's why you're standing here tonight, is for fruit, fruit of the Spirit. Now, remember.

L-140 "Why is it," you say, "Brother Branham," maybe some of you women standing here, I noticed you have short hair, "why is it, Brother Branham, I'm a Christian, and I--I still just look like I just can't do that. I can't let my hair grow out. Yet I know the Bible teaches that that's right." The New Testament teaches that that's the thing to do. "I just can't do it. Looks like I just can't overcome it (See?), can't get to that place. See?"
I believe you're a good person. I believe you're sincere. You wouldn't be standing here as an example tonight. You're doing that, and that--that's what you must do. It's the Scripture. You must do that. See?


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