<TITLE>09. Par 34-38</TITLE>L-34 Down in Africa, see them take little children, just little fat black babies, the little bitty fellows--and take--the witch doctor take the knives and cut them, and rub that ink berry stuff into their faces, and disfigure them, and castrate the little girls and so forth, to make virgins out of them, and all kinds of carrying-on like that, with the deepest of sincerity. Certainly they do. Fall before idols, and even give their lives with the deepest of sincerity, but sincerity doesn't make it. They're presuming that's right. They just think it's right.
And you... We look down upon them, and we think they ought to be taught different. But we in America are just as bad, and if anything, worse off. It's true. We presume. We take it for granted. We venture anywhere without the actual authority of doing it. There's no authority in the Bible for a Christian to drink, gamble, lie, carouse.
People join these churches and go right on just the same. They join these churches; women cut their hair, wear shorts, smoke cigarettes. Sure. Go right on. They think that's all right. They presume it's all right. But it's not all right. It's not all right. By a million miles it's not right. God's Word don't support it. It's contrary to it. But they presume it's all right.

L-35 Somewhere out here at the west coast... Now, this isn't over on the Presbyterians now. This is the Pentecostals in a great fine church, wonderful organization. But they've so got away from the Word. This lady wore long hair. She had it done in a little round thing on the back of her head. And they'd--they'd go around to her, and say, "Hey, your tire's flat in the back," and all of them made fun of her. Even the pastor told her she should have her hair cut because it was different. She asked me; she said, "Brother Branham, what about it?"
"He told you something wrong."

L-36 Our Pentecostal sisters does the same thing, like the world. Someone said the other day, he said, "Brother Branham, people regard you as a prophet. Why in the world don't you teach those people how to get spiritual gifts? Leave off of the way them women dress and those men act. Leave off of it. You got no business saying it. Teach them great, deep, spiritual things."
I said, "How can I teach them algebra, when they don't know ABC's?" How can you give them a college education, and they're not even out of kindergarten? Don't even have common decency to clean yourselves up, and act like Christians, and dress like Christians, and live like Christians, and then talk about spiritual gifts. Come out of kindergarten. They presume that's all right, but it's wrong.

L-37 You shouldn't do it. Your mothers didn't do it that was in Pentecost years ago. But they do it. And you men how do you stand, let your wives do that? You're still in kindergarten. See? That's right. You presume it's all right, but it isn't. You say, "Well, wife will do this and that." You're the head of the house. God said so. See?
You just presume it's all right because the rest of them does it. I don't care what the rest of them does; it's what God's Word says. That's what's truth.

L-38 Just presume it. See? You say, "Well, I guess it's all right. The--the pastor..."
I don't care what the pastor says. The Word is right. The Word's what's right. See? Don't presume it. You'll get in trouble. Just do what the Word says do. Yes, sir. The people, they--they keep on doing it just the same, but they're presuming to be right when it's not.


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