<TITLE>10. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Let me tell you; I got a letter at home of one of the finest churches, big organizations in the Pentecostal move. That poor broken-hearted woman wrote me a letter. And she said, "Brother Branham, I had wore long hair and had a bun on the back of my head." She said in the... "My husband liked it." And she said, "We moved from the city where we had a church that was real spiritual into where this big church, the first church of the city." And said, "When we got in there, all the Pentecostal sisters had cut off their hair." And said, "They got after me about it, and I said, 'No, no, I believe the Bible says for us not to do that, dishonorable to do that.'" And so she just said, "And they kept... and laughed at her, and said, 'Hey, your--your tire's going flat on the back, your spare,' and all like that. They got after my husband in such a way till I--he forced me to cut my hair." And said, "And I've been condemned ever since."
Think of it, a Pentecostal church that's supposed to stand for the Word of God. That's where your organization takes you to. Right. They fail to hear that still small voice of the Word that calls them to the truth. They're all listening for rushing mighty winds, and a lot of shouting and dancing, and saying they got power. That's all right. I believe in that too. But brother, when you can dance and shout, and then turn around and deny the Word of God, and live like the world, there's something wrong somewhere. That's right.

L-41 The Spirit of God comes down in that still small voice and directs you right straight to Calvary where we are dead and our life is hid in God through Christ and sealed by the Holy Ghost. Then that Word alone lives there. "Then if ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be given to you." There's the difference.
I hope I don't appear to you as a fanatic. If I am, I'm--I'm--I'm ignorant of it. I--I believe that God's Word is Truth, and It must abide right here. And if It abides here, It will show Itself outwardly. It's got to. Your life, your whole makeup will be different.
So when God gave Abraham the test, he come through a hundred percent. And when God cannot give an organization a test because it's all mixed up... God don't deal in that way with organizations. He don't deal with nations in the Gentile race. He took a people out of the Gentiles. Israel, He took a nation; but of the Gentiles He took a people out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake. So you see, it's not an organ--it's not an organization, it's an individual He takes out of the Gentiles.
And when the test comes, you see what happens? We did come out for justification. We did receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Pentecostal move.

L-42 But when it comes to the test time, get polished scholars, wants to be like the world, just like it was in the days of Wesley's move and all the rest of them. They go to school; they--they learn science, and they learn all these other kind of things that--that goes along with education. And they try to learn psychology, just the best thing... "Well, don't say this, let them do this and that because it'll..."
See, you're accumulating and building... Your--your--your objective is wrong; your motive is wrong. You're building to an organization instead of building to Calvary. How can you build to Calvary and not coming by the way of the Word? For we are washed by the water of the Word. "Ye abide in Me and My Words in you, then ask what you will."


<A HREF="P11">Next Page</A>