<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Now, I--I'm going to... Ain't got too much time. We're facing a holiday, and that holiday's called Easter. This American people that call themselves Christians...
I hope I don't act like a know-it-all. If I do, you--you forgive me, will you? But how in the world am I... If you drive a nail in that tabernacle, and let it stay halfway loose, you might as well not put it in there. The first... If all these nails are drove like that, I'm scared to stand under it. You've got to drive it down and clinch it, put the pressure on the hammer.
And we're building the house of the Lord. Drive the nail all the way in. Clinch it on the other side by a proof of it. "Upon this rock I'll build My church" (See?), the spiritual revealed truth of God. "Upon this rock I'll build My church." Oh, she'll stand forever, 'cause it's Gospel nails you're driving.
God clinches it on the other side by confirming the Word, making it prove what it said it would do. Amen. That's then you got it. The Word says so, and God stands right here before you, and proves that it's so. Then where you going to go from there?

L-31 Now, notice. Now, all will happen on Easter morning, there'll be thousands and millions of dollars will be spent on Easter flowers to put on the altar, just like Cain did. See? The altar wasn't made for flowers. Cain tried it. It didn't work. The altar's made for human souls.
God don't want your flower; He wants you on the altar. You're trying to make a substitute. You're the person belongs there. Me and you, we're the one belongs on the altar. But we presume that's all right. God accepts it, we say, and it's all right. We presume that that's all we have to do, is just do that.
Now, we notice that thousands of them won't even do that. They'll get out and get drunk. They know that they're... They know it's Easter. It represents Easter. So they've got a lot of trouble and sin behind them, so they think if they get drunk, and forget it all, that's--that's just what they ought to do. That's America. They think that's just what they ought to do.

L-32 I seen the strangest sight I'd seen in a long time, Friday, when I went to get my children down at the school. I seen one woman amongst that bunch wasn't smoking cigarettes. I went back and told my wife. I said, "I seen a miracle."
Every one of them women coming out, "Hello, Liddy." lighting up. Said, "See, I... [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.]" Oh, my. Sing in choirs, belong to church. They presume that's all right. You're going to find out different at the end of the road. See where you're at now.
But they think, "Well, I tell you what we'll do. We'll--we'll..." Some of them is good-hearted enough to donate some money to charity. "I did my part." That's not what... that's not... That ain't Easter. That's not Easter. That's a good thing, nothing against it, to donate to charity. That's all right. But that's not your duty to God. That's your duty to your fellow man. Your duty to God is give your life to Him. Give your money to your fellow man. See? See how we get it? But they presume that's all right. "Oh, yeah. That--that's all right."

L-33 Oh. Some of them take the resurrection to Easter eggs, bunny rabbits. What in the world has bunny rabbits got to do with the resurrection? What's Easter eggs, and new hats got to do with Easter?
A preacher told me, said, "Brother Branham, I..." It was a Campbellite preacher, a Christian, he said, "I just had to hide my face and laugh at some of the funny-looking hats them women had on."
I said, "Where'd you take your text?" Take it where it needs to be. Don't baby around and pet it. You can't pet sin; you got to condemn it. That's right. Condemn the thing. It's wrong. Get away from it.


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