<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-37-2 Now, so there's... But you know what we're supposed to do. The Bible said that the predestinated church, the predestinated sons in God's... What did they do? Set in heavenly places. What is that? Coolness, comfort, feel at home. Amen.
Where everybody's wearing a tuxedo, and--and the next man this way, and--and somebody look around and say, "Hmmm, look. She never got a permanent in her hair. Ain't it--don't she look horrible? She don't even have an Easter frown--gown--now--that (ever what it is) on. (You know. Yeah, Easter frown, that's about right see, set back there, you know. See?) Don't even have an Easter... Why, why, look at him, that same old suit he wore last year. Well, what do you know about that." You don't feel right there.

L-37-4 I said to a little woman the other day, poor little woman, she belonged to a great dignified church down... She said (she's dying with cancer, went down to pray for her, Brother Roy Roberson here, one of the trustees, sent me down there, and the poor little thing setting there dying with cancer)--and she said...
I said, "Do you--are you a Christian?"
She Sir, I--I don't know what to say." Said, "I went to a certain church," and said... Then she started crying.
I said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "I just couldn't dress right. They looked down upon me."

L-38-1 Oh, there you are. See? You're--you're uncomfortable. See? But the Bible said that we are to assemble ourselves together in heavenly places. Oh, my. What? All alike. Why, I will tell you what this will do. It will make a--it will make a pair of overalls and a tuxedo suit put their arms around one another and call each other brothers. Sure will. It will make an old calico dress put their arms around a silk, satin one and say, "Sister, how are you this morning? Praise God." That's right. It will. It's joy, peace, love, faith in the Word, long-suffering, gentleness, patience. Set down in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, cool off a little while. See? That's what the leaves did.
But what did the old locust did? He come around, eat them leaves off; said, "You belong to ours or you don't belong to anybody." So he took all the coolness of the Spirit out. See? He fixed himself a creed. All right.

L-38-3 Now, we got to go on. We could stay a long time on that little locust, but the third stage of him was the cankerworm. Hmm, that's got a bad name to start with: the cankerworm. What does a cankerworm do? It goes into the bark; that's the lifeline there. Yes, sir. It goes into the bark, and it destroys the covering of the tree--the covering. What is religion? Covering; that's what the word religion means: "a covering."
So this little cankerworm, after he got amongst the congregation, got them all dignified, then he took all the fellowship away from them in the form of the locust; and now, he comes around and takes their very religion and makes dogmas out of it. That's right. Sets up unorthodox words; forms himself a religion and gets a bunch of men together and put a creed down there; he takes the very religion, strips it off of God's Tree--the very bark that bears the sap that comes up in it, takes it away. Cankerworm... Do you see that insect? That's exactly.

L-38-5 That cankerworm, that was Rome, in that early church. First thing, the Pentecostals group, not Pentecostal organizations... No, sir. Anything that organizes is dead; I'll prove that just in a minute by the Scriptures. See? But when it's... But the Pentecostal experience, who's it for? It's for the Catholic. Who else? The Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, anybody that wants it. But you want--got to want it.
You don't join into it. I've been in the Branham family for fifty-three years, and I never did join the family. Why? I'm a Branham to begin with; I was borned a Branham. That's the way we're Christians. Not because we're joined into something; that's an organization; we're born Christians by being regenerated by the Holy Spirit.


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