<TITLE>02. Par 6-9</TITLE>L-6 A man went off here some time ago with a life jacket on. They only seen the thing when he dropped [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] like that. Even that life jacket, that terrific current just taken him right under and never did find him. Never did know what become of him. He hung up on the rocks or edges down in there maybe a mile or two around like that, and no way of surviving.
And if I seen somebody going down the river in a little old boat setting there reading, going on, and I go to screaming at him, "Get out of that boat. That boat will not be able to shoot those riffles." Now, it isn't that I've got anything against that man, if even if I have to bawl him out and talk real hard to him. It isn't I've got anything against the man; I love the man, but I know he's going to crash up. That's the reason I holler at him, because he's not... It's because I do love him is--is the reason I holler. If I didn't care I'd say, "Well, good riddance," and go on (See?), if I didn't care for him.

L-7 But the reason I say those things is because I'm zealous of the church. I--I'm zealous of God's church, and I--I do hate to see It just becoming organizational-minded; and I know that trend, that that's the way that every church has went to the rocks, right like that, right down through that organizational trend.
Just think of the revival in the time of Lutherans, look where it went. And as soon as it ever hits that, it never rises again. The Lutherans never did come back. Look at the Wesley Methodists; never did come back. Look at the Pilgrim Holiness, Nazarenes, all the rest of them, Baptists, Presbyterians. They have a revival, and then some man raises up with the power of God on him, he starts to move in the Spirit. Then as soon as that man's gone, then they set in an organization from that.
Like the Moody Bible Institute, fine place, but it'll never be like Moody had it. See? And the things that Moody stood for, they're a million miles off of it. So there you are. And now, it's all intellectual where Moody had it on the Spirit. You see?

L-8 And so you--you find out that in those things... Now, when I first started to come here to Phoenix years ago in the Pentecostal move, had an opportunity to start an organization myself. The Latter-Rain brethren came to me and said, "This is it. Let's start. Why, we'll be--be bigger than all the rest of them."
I said, "Mercy, that's not it. That's not--that's not the thing, brethren, you're--you're a million miles off the--off the road. God will never bless it. Read your history; read the Bible. There'll never be another organization come out of it that come from this." That's right. This will organize and go into the... It's in the Laodicean condition now. But I'll tell you, brother, there's no more God blessed organizations to rise up. There'll be nothing of this. We're at the coming of the Lord. See? And God will take the remnant out of this big ecumenical move that's gone on now for the Bride, but there'll never be nothing to organize spiritually any more. See? It's finished.

L-9 When I see my brethren, precious brethren, leaning that way, then I just pour it in with all I got. And sometimes brothers say, "Well, Brother Branham's against us. We're..." That is wrong. My, that's--that's the farthest thing from my mind, is to be against anybody. I'm--I'm for you; I'm your brother. See? And trying my best... And that's the reason I never joined any certain organization, so I could stand in the breach and say, "Brother, don't. That's not the way it is, to say we belong to the Assemblies." That's wonderful. The Assemblies of God's been a terrific blessing to me. "We're the Foursquare." Well, look what a blessing they've been to me. "We're the Jesus' Name." Look what a blessing they've been to me. "We're the ones-the-others," whatever, they're all blessings; they're--they're God's people. See? And God's people is in all of it.


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