<TITLE>27. Par -</TITLE>L-43-4 One of them followed me for a long time. How they... I went down there in Mexico myself and seen them lime pits, where them nuns' babies (when the priests would have them by... )--them babies, where they was burnt in them lime pits and things like that. That's what made communism spring up in Mexico. They broke up that tommyrot. That's what made communism spring up yonder.
Don't you never fear communism. God's using communism. I don't believe in it; it's of the devil, but God takes the devil and comes right back around like He did King Nebuchadnezzar and come over and got Israel. See? You watch and see if the Bible don't prove it. One of these days we'll go into it. God raised it right up to avenge the children of God on that old whore. That's exactly what the Bible said, and it--said they'd burn her with fire, and she'd come to the end of her doom. That's exactly what's going to happen to her too. There she is; that's the one that fell upon rocks, just so little of soil till the thing couldn't grow; it died. Then, that was super-wisdom.

L-44-1 Then, some fell on the Protestant's ground. But after while the great wisdom of the big denominations choked it out, choked the Spirit out. "Days of miracles is past." "Doctor So-and-so said, 'So-and-so.'" See? "No such a thing." Just perfect. Choked all--choked all the what out? Choked out the Spirit for the wisdom. See?
The Holy Spirit fell in the days of Martin Luther. The Holy Spirit fell in the days of John Wesley. The Holy Spirit fell in the days of the early Pentecostal church, but what's the denominations done? With their wisdom have choked It out. Choked out what? The Seed, What is the Seed? The Word. "It doesn't mean that; It means this there." See? They get it or not.

L-44-3 Many honest-hearted man of those ministers, I've met them, set down and talked to them, even on the subject of baptism and many things, I've asked anybody to come to discuss it. They said, "Brother Branham, if we'd do that, our church would put us out."
I said, "Who's more to you, the Word of God or your church?" You'll never go no farther in that dust of denomination. See? See? All right. If it denies the Word, it's wrong. See? It shows it's man-made wisdom.

L-44-5 Now, the Protestants got choked out. It choked the Spirit right out of them, when they began to take wisdom instead of faith in the Word--the wisdom in the organization, the organizational wisdom, instead of faith in the Word. (All that understand that say, "Amen." [Congregation replies, "Amen!"--Ed.] See?) Faith in what the--what the group of man of the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Evangelicals, and all got together... And soon they're to form up a confederation of church, which will be the image to the beast. And he will have the same power in this nation (Revelations 13:11) that they had over there, and will cause a persecution upon the saints, just like they did at the beginning of the--the Roman church. See? That's where it's heading right up now. And that's why the Word's being sowed right now everywhere: Stay away from it! Get out of it! See?

L-45-1 Now, wisdom choked it out. Their own wisdom strangled the Holy Spirit away from them. Let me prove it to you in the Bible, in Revelations the 3rd chapter, where we just got through the church ages. Jesus had been strangled from His church and was on the outside, trying to knock on the door to get back in. [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.] That's exactly what It said. "I stand at the door and knock. If any man will thirst, if he will just let Me in, I'll come." But nobody opened the door. See? They put Him out. What was it? They had...


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