<TITLE>13. Par 48-51</TITLE>L-48 How can they accept spiritual things when they won't even have the common decency to clean themselves up? Not to hurt you, but be honest with you... Unhonorable things that the Bible says that you shouldn't do, yet we associate with it. Sure. See, you can't be welcome. No, sir. You're out of place with the Word, and He is the Word. Now, so much for that. We'll get that some other time.
But notice, on as we go. You say, "What's the matter with you?" Well, you men that'll let them do it, that shows what you're made out of. Some of you women, pastors' wives, act like that and dress like that. What is it? You're trying... Your husband let you do it? Oh, brother. What is it? Some of these water-head haircuts you have, trying to act like the first lady of the land. Jezebel was the first lady of the land too. Some of their pastors wouldn't tell them about it, but they had Elijah down there stood out on it all right. That was her pastor. She didn't want to believe it. Led around...

L-49 Notice, we find out that they had to be ready and prepared to go in. How did it happen? We see Him now, setting in the room, unwashed, unanointed, not kissed welcome, setting in the cardinal's house. I want to ask you something. What happened to that foot-wash flunky? Where was he at? How did he bypass that? What an opportunity, and missed it. Oh, I believe if I'd been there and knowed He's coming, I'd have been on a stepladder somewhere watching for Him to come. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The honor of washing His feet, the honor... But somehow he just bypassed Him, let Him go.
Where was the man with the anointing oil? But somehow He was there and was dirty. It kills me to say it, but Jesus with dirty feet. You know the Frenchman calls Him Jsus, Jsus. Jsus with dirty feet, nobody caring to--enough about it to wash His feet.
"What's that got to do with us, Brother Branham?" He come and He was on time. He's always on time, never late. We call for a revival, and He comes. Somebody starts to praise the Lord, or weep; he's put out of the church. See? He's never welcomed. Jsus with dirty feet.

L-50 Oh, why did He get dirty? He got dirty coming because He was called to come. And today He's also when He comes He's called holy-roller, some scandal name. Why did He take that sort of a thing? Because we invited Him to come, and God came down in the form of human flesh. He lived here on earth. He became that so that... We invited God to come, and then when He come, they don't want Him. They didn't want Him. Many times we don't want Him. It interferes with our denominational setup. It interferes with the social standing we have with the other churches. God have mercy on we poor miserable Pharisees.
What we need is the power of the Holy Ghost back into the buildings, and back into the people, that could have the old fashion Pentecostal power that cleaned the church from the janitor to the pastor. That's right. Amen. That's what we need. But we pray for it, and when it comes, "Oh, no. That interferes with my social standing." See? Oh, sure, cuts down some of the dignity. If you don't have it just so-and-so, the people won't come. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father drawed him." Notice again, "All that the Father give Me will come." Keep the thing clean.

L-51 We can't never compare with the world. We're doing wrong by trying to act like the world. We're never can compare with them. And we've got no business out on their grounds. Bring them over on our grounds. We got something they haven't got. We go to act like them, then they know we--we're saying something we haven't got. Let the--let the world come to us, not us go out after the world. Let the world...
You know, Hollywood shines, but the Gospel glows. There's a lot of difference between shining and glowing. Glow, not shine with the outward appearance, glow on the inside by the Holy Ghost, with sweetness, meekness, gentleness, patience, and love. Glow, don't shine. Shine is after the world.


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