<TITLE>17. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 I said awhile ago about my mammy, she'd make us every Saturday night... 'Cause eating that poor food, she'd make us take a big dose of castor oil. Every... I can't stand the smell of the stuff. You can get it in this room, and I'll gag. I just can't stand it, so much of it. And I'd take and hold my nose. I'd come up, and I'd say, "Mama, I just can't take the stuff. It just makes me gag." She said, "If it don't gag you, and make you right good and sick, it don't do you no good."
That's the way with preaching the Word. If it don't gag you, and get you stirred up, get to reading... Get out of them old creeds, and get down to the Word. Search and see if they're right. Right. Don't do you no good. It'll stir up your spiritual gastronomics. Yes, sir. It gets you started right.
That's rude, hard way to make an expression. But it's the only way I have. I'm rude myself, and I ain't got no education. I just have to... All... like John. The only thing he knowed was serpents, and axes, and things of the wilderness. And the only thing I know is just what I know, and that's all I know. So I--I just have to say it the way I see it, and the way--way it comes to me. It could be expressed a lot more cleaner and nicer than that. But you know what I'm talking about. That's one thing. See? You know what I mean. So that's it. You got to get back to the Word; get away from all this old stuff anyhow. All right.

L-59 Now, Achan thought that'd be all right. "I'll take this nice little wedge, and it'll be a nice little outfit. And I'll have this nice little thing here, and I'll be the presbyter, and so forth. And I--I'll... It'll be all right." But it was cursed. Everything in that fallen place was cursed.
And it is today. We don't want no Achans; we don't want no... They never could get going on and win a battle, until that thing was destroyed. That's right. Yes, sir.

L-60 The Egyptians presumed that it'd be all right. Israel went through the Dead Sea. Why couldn't they? Uncircumcised, didn't have the blessings of the covenant. They presumed it was all right. But they find out they drowned. You can't go through this... can... You cannot come into the fellowship with God bringing on world-made doctrines. You drowned, you perish with them. You've got to come God's way or no way. You've got to line up with the Word, or you're out. You die there.
So... But Egypt thought, "Well, they went through it. I'm just... We're better men than they are. We're healthier, stronger, smarter. Well, them guys can't even write their name. And we are masters." But the masters didn't go very far. God don't count mastery the way that people does. That's right.

L-61 Noah's time. They thought, "Now, if it does come a... Why, now, if it does come a big rain. There never has been one, but if they do, why, we've got ships and boats."
You say, "They didn't have them." They did have them.
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah..." Same kind... They dig up cities and things now, that's sunken, with all modern water works; it was right here in Mexico, a few years ago, everything. Sure. There's nothing new under the sun.
"We'll just ride our own ships."
They presumed they'd be all right. But God had one ship was going to float, and the rest of them was going to sink. But they presumed that their ship would last, float any way that this thing would, no matter whether it was Scripturally made or not.
[Brother Branham makes a noise--Ed.] I could say something here. Listen. That's the way today. You think that the thing will float; it'll be all right, whether it's Scriptural or not. It's got to be solid Scriptural.


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