<TITLE>33. Par -</TITLE>L-54-1 Though the Word falls on them, It can't grow. It's Satan's wisdom (See?), so it just becomes denominational dust. They can't believe in Hebrews 13:8, all puffed up with the wisdom, nothing for It to grow in. See? How can they believe Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever"? Couldn't do it. See? Oh, they say they believe it. Oh, you tell them that, they say, "Sure, we believe it." Then show me the fruits of it. Let me see it. Let me see it being done. Let me see the church that you're preaching to, do what they did in the first apostolic church then, that believed the Word. You twist your baptisms; you twist your evidences; you make it fit some kind of a creed, instead of taking the Word and let the Word bear Its own fruit. You make some kind of a thing you got to do to bring an evidence of It. And Satan can interpretate every evidence that you want to put forth. Sure he can; he certainly can, but he can't produce the Word. That's one thing that burns him up; he just can't do that. Yes, sir. Oh, yes!

L-54-2 Now, look at Cain and Abel. Both of them was sincere. Cain took, by his wisdom, after his mother church, Eve... (That was his mother. How many knows that Eve was the mother of Cain? Sure! All right.) Like his mother, he took reasoning (See?), wisdom, his own wisdom. A beautiful sacrifice, he had the flowers; he had the fruit of the field. Said, "Well, now surely..." (See?) he said, "God..." (It's just like Satan said to--to Eve, "Surely, surely.") "Surely God will receive my sacrifice. I built a lovely altar. I have it so pretty; it's so decorated." Just like this Easter will be. They'll spend millions of dollars across the nation to put Easter flowers on some altars. The altar wasn't made for flowers; it's for sacrifice. See? You just show that same old spirit of Cain (See?), same old devil from Eden. See?

L-54-3 Why--what happened? Cain thought, "Surely..." You know the man was sincere, 'cause it meant life or death to him. And them people, don't think they're hypocrites; they're sincere,
You say, "Then they could be sincere and be wrong?" Sure! A man can take arsenic sincerely, thinking he was taking castor oil or something, something else. See? He's sincere. That don't do it. It's Truth, not sincerity, Truth.

L-54-5 Them women over there in Africa sacrifice their little babies to gods, the alligators. Are you that sincere? No. How many of them... Understand the Chinese break their bones to kitchen gods. And how about the Mohammedans, and up in there, and the fire walkers that put things, oh, hooks of--flesh in their mouth, and sew their mouth up. And some of them put a stick... I got a statue up there, a little figurine, a way he sacrifices to his god to think he'd go to heaven. A priest puts a stick in his mouth, wraps it around his head with a chain comes down, puts his hands behind him, chains his feet. He can't drink, speak, eat, nor nothing else till he dies. You see any Christians making a sacrifice like that? You won't even believe the Truth, the Word. See?

L-55-1 Now, beauty. He said, "Surely, God will receive. Look how pretty my altar is." See, that same spirit today, of wisdom.
"Well, if we build this great denomination, surely God will receive us." He won't receive nothing but His Word. No. See?
"Well," they say, "now look, Brother Branham, if we--if we put out so many ministers each year... Our missionary program last year run to over a $100,000." That may be ever so good, brother, but you're dead until you acknowledge that Word and come to It. That's exactly.


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