<TITLE>20. Par -</TITLE>L-33-4 So this little palmerworm come around to take off the fruits. (I have two pages of fruits; I'm just, want to read some of them.) First thing, the first fruit he took off was brotherly love. That's right. That's one of the things that kills the church right there, when brotherly love... Yes, sir.
Then, the next fruit he took off the Tree... You remember, love is the first fruit on the tree: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, faith, patience (that's right.) in the Holy Ghost. Now, nine spiritual gifts with nine fruits of the Tree and so forth... All right.

L-34-1 Now, the first, he got to eating on the fruit of the tree. Now, let's picture a big tree, of God's tree; it's bearing nine spiritual gifts. They're healing the sick; they're speaking in tongues; they're casting out devils; they're doing great works, and preaching the unadulterated Word of God, no denomination to tie them down; they're free, doing a great work. So in come this little old devil, setting up with his two horns setting out in front like a grasshopper, you know, and his little old greedy teeth. That's his first, the palmerworm, he come in to eat off brotherly love. He said, "You know, So-and-so did so-and-so over at So-and-so's church; I wouldn't believe that bunch of people." See? There he is, first thing.

L-34-2 Next, he wanted to eat on the fruit of faith: faith in the Word: "Now, look, how do you know that is the Word? It's been translated so many times." That little devil's still eating. See? That's right. "That Word's been translated so many times. He's this, that or the other. Oh, he's all this." See?
Now, that's another fruit he eat off of it: joy of salvation: "Shhh. You people make too much noise. Oh, my, my."

L-34-4 "Oh, how can you preach, Brother Branham?" a woman said to me one time... No, it wasn't; it was a man (I believe he's... I hope he's here; he belongs to another church), but he said to me; he said, "I was up to hear you the other day, and I couldn't even hear you for them people crying." (I said... ) Said, "How in the world can you preach there?"
I said, "If they didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't be preaching." That's right.

L-34-5 I used to have... A friend of mine, Jim Poole, and I, we used to have an old dog. We called him Fritz. And so this old dog, he'd--he'd go into anything that I--he treed, but a skunk. He was afraid of a skunk, 'cause he smelled so. So I'd get him a skunk under the brush pile; the only thing I had to do was just pat him a little bit and say, "Sic 'em, sic 'em, boy." He'd go get the skunk (See?), because I was patting him, saying, "Sic 'em."
Well, that's just what it is when we... That is... The worst stinker I know of is the devil. So when I'm bringing this Word out and somebody says, "Amen," that's "Sic 'em, boy." We get him--we get him treed.

L-35-1 So we find out that he took away the joy. You know, David one time lost the joy of his salvation; he didn't lose his salvation; but he lost the joy of it. He cried, "Lord, restore to me the joy of my salvation." See? The joy...
So this little old palmerworm begin to eat that fruit of joy out: "Now, looky here, you people make too much noise. I tell you, all this crying, this saying 'Amen,' and this shouting, that's nonsense. There's nothing to that."
See? First thing you know you're setting in a big morgue, you know, setting there, all of them dead. Some of these embalming fluids of so-called doctrine of creeds pumped into their veins where the Spirit of God ought to be running, where the old church creed pumped in there, no wonder they're icy, cold and dead; spiritual thermometer, ninety below zero. Yeah. Somebody say, "Amen"; everybody stretch their neck around like some kind of goose or something, want to know what said that. It's a shame, when the Spirit of God ought to be joy, peace, love. But this little old bug started eating on it, and he eat all the joy away.


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