<TITLE>15. Par 62-67</TITLE>L-62 Now, Brother, what about you? "What will I do, Brother Branham?" Stay with the Word. Stay with the promise.
"My church will all walk away from me." Stay with the promise. They'll have to fade--go away someday anyhow. But God won't. Stay with the promise.
"Well, I tell you, they'll kick me out." Stay with the promise, just the same; stay right with the promise. Now, if you can stay with the promise and stay there, stay right with them then. Fellowship with everybody.
But now here... Now, you'll never win any other way but besides fellowshipping with everybody. You got to. Now, when they got so bad and immorally, then stay away from it. That's right. Don't get on the enemy's territory. But as long as you're trying to win your brother, that's different. See?

L-63 Now, watch, but you'll never win the opinion of the organization, one person (No sir!), when they got their rules set, "We believe this, period."
If you'd write up your doctrines, "We believe this, comma," it'd be different. A period means we believe this, and you've got to come to this and sign this paper, or that's all of it. But if you say, "We believe this, comma, plus as much as we can learn from God. We're open to the Holy Spirit," then you're going on, brother. Yes. That's going to be different now. But you see, if you got it wrote with a period, and God gives something another comes up that proves to be His Word and truth, you can't move, 'cause it's a period. That ends it.

L-64 That's where the Lutherans died. That's where the Methodists died. That's where the Baptists died. That's where the Presbyterian died, and there's where the Pentecostal are dying. That's right. That's right. They die right there. Just look.  'Cause they--it's already wrote out. There's nothing you--you can add to it or take from it. It's--it's there; that's your doctrine.

L-65 Luther could not accept sanctification. No sir. He done said, "Just shall live by faith." Not Martin Luther, but that group that followed him. That's right. Not John Wesley, but the group that followed him. That's right. Not Calvin, but the group that followed him. Not John Smith of the Baptist church, who prayed so hard at nighttime, till his eyes was swelled shut, for his church. And his wife had to lead him out to feed him with a spoon at the table: not him, but this bunch of Baptists that follows him, organization that come behind him. Not Alexander Campbell, but those who followed him. Not the Pentecostal move at the beginning who had all things in common and fellowshipped with everybody, but the groups that come and said, "No, we're this, and we're this, and these are issues and that's that." Separating themselves, seemingly not having the faith. That's right. That's what did it. There's the evil thing. Amen. I feel religious this morning.

L-66 The ch... Hebrew children, after they had stood the test where they would stay for the Word of promise or not, they were put to a trial. And what did they do? They possessed the gate of the enemy. Amen. Why? They stayed on the Word. Stay with the Word, that voice of God that speaks to you.
Now, all reason says, "Now, look, Babylon, it wouldn't be no different, because we're--when we bow before this image, we're worshipping God anyhow. Well if we do it this way, we mean it this way."
Do it the way God said it. What if God said, "Moses, take off your shoes, Moses, you're on holy ground."
He said, "Thank You, Lord, I sure believe in You. I'll just take off my hat instead. It's too much trouble to unlace my shoe." See, it would never work. He said, "Shoe." He didn't say hat. That's right. It's got to come line by line, what God says and line up with His Word.

L-67 Now, after they'd had the test, they possessed the gate of the enemy of fire. They found out when they went right down to the end, staying on God's Word, they possessed the gate. That's right.


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