<TITLE>21. Par -</TITLE>L-35-4 And then, next fruit on the Tree is peace, peace of mind, knowing that you're saved. They tell you, "Well now, if you'll recite our creed, you're saved."
"If you'll join my church, you're saved."
Well now, this one says, "You're not saved if you go there; you have to join our church to be saved."
"You have to say a 'Hail Mary.'"
"You have to have your name on this book."
"You have to have..."
Oh, my. That would take all the joy out; but that's not God's Tree. You know where you're at; that's hybrid. I always... You know what my story about the mule; he's a hybrid. He don't know who his papa, mama, either one was. See? He's a hybrid. But oh, a good pedigreed horse, he knows who his papa and mama was through generations. And a real good pedigreed Christian too, that's got the Holy Ghost, he know It fell on the day of Pentecost. He knows where he's at; he can trace his generations plumb back--his genealogies to the first beginning of it. Peter had It; on down through the nation, and races, they've had It on down. A good pedigreed Christian knows where it comes from.

L-36-1 Say, "Well, I'm Lutheran, umph."
"I'm Presbyterian."
Oh, you hybrid. Why ain't you... Why ain't you...
"Well," you say, "What are--what are you?"
"Borned again."
"Borned again of what?"
"The Spirit of God." That's why you're not hybrid; you're born correctly. Not with some church creed, but with the Spirit of God; God lives in you.

L-36-2 Now, notice. This little old insect started eating. So he eat off all the peace of mind. Oh, and on, and on, and on, and on down. I got a page of it here: all the fruits, what he done.
Then, this little--that fellow died out, and he become a locust. That was the next stage, was a locust. Now, what does a locust do? A locust eats the leaves. That's right. A locust takes onto the leaves. What the palmerworm left (he left the leaves; he eat all the fruit off the Tree), then what took in? The locust come to eat, eat what the palmerworm left.
Now, what did he do, what did this palmerworm do? Destroyed the leaves. What's the leaves for? Destroying Divine fellowship. That's right.
"Now, he's--he's--he's Presbyterian; we won't have nothing to do with him. He's Nazarene. He's Pentecostal. He's this, that, or the other; we won't have nothing to do with him, because he don't belong to our group."
"Have a meeting here for healing of the sick? Huh. Our church don't even believe in it." See? There you--you...

L-36-4 What'd that little old locust do? He cut all the fellowship off (That's right.), took all the fellowship. What is fellowship? What does the leaves do? Makes it cool, where the birds fly in under the leaves and [Brother Branham makes a panting sound--Ed.] cool off (There's your tree again: "And he shall be like a tree that's planted..." See? All right), where people can come and set down under the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, cool off a little bit. You're all flusterated, and don't know what's happening, and whether you'll die, or whether you're saved or not, and you don't know whether they--this church is right or that's right; just come down under the Tree that's got some leaves on It and set down there. Let the winds from heaven go to blowing like a rushing, mighty wind through the leaves, you know. And begins to--and you begin to cool off a little bit.
Say, "Oh, I'm going down and tell that bunch of holy-rollers what I think."
Just set down awhile and you'll cool off. That's right. You can't do it in yours, 'cause what's the matter? The locust has done eat it all off, sure, eat all the leaves off of it. That's just--might as well set out there in the sun; so you--there ain't--ain't no cooling there. All right.


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