<TITLE>19. Par 76-79</TITLE>L-76 And if he can't knock it off, he dies. But if he gets it knocked off, he will start rejoicing and screaming. You can hear him for miles, just a-screaming. Why? He knows that he's got all the crust off of him. He knows that his youth's going to be renewed because that he got the crust off. That's wonderful. I appreciate that for the eagle.
But brother, I know a Rock. Amen. I know a Rock that the weary sinner can beat his, not his head on there, but beat himself in prayer till all the crust of the world is took off of him, all the unbelief, the shackles are broke loose. And that man can beat himself in prayer there till every sin-shackle is broke away from him.
I know where prostitutes can beat till they become ladies. I know where drunkards and gamblers can beat till they become saints of God, men of God. I know a Rock. That Rock is Christ Jesus, our Refuge. And as soon as you get all the world beat off of you, you renew your youth.

L-77 You renew what? You know you can start praising God because Eternal Life is sure, 'cause He promised it. Just stay there until all of the world is gone. But as long as some of the crust of the world's still sticking on, you better keep beating, 'cause Eternal Life ain't there yet. When you say, "Well, I believe part of the Word of God is right," now you still got crust there. Yes, sir. When the women still bob their hair and wear shorts, a lot of crust there.
Someone bawled me out about that the other day. They said, "Brother Branham, people respect you to be a prophet."
And I said, "I'm no prophet."
He said, "But they say you're that. Why don't you teach the people how to get the--how to get prophet gifts and how to get those things there? Quit telling them women, them men about their creeds, and about women the way they dress."
I said, "If they can't learn their ABC's, how they going to teach them algebra?"
They haven't got the common decency to clean up and act like and be like Christians, how in the world you going to teach them--give them a high school education when they're not out of the kindergarten yet, and don't desire to come out. I don't mean to be angry or--or nasty. But that's the truth. Amen. Whew. I feel religious.

L-78 Stay there. When the Holy Ghost comes He will make a different creature out of you. When you got all the world beat off of you, and the shackles and all the unbelief beat off, you believe Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever; you believe in the power of God; you believe in the resurrection; you believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost; you believe in all these spiritual gifts and see them working.
Why? You are dead with Him, and buried with Him, and risen with Him. There you are. Then the steam goes off. Oh, brother, the preacher can't preach one word that condemns you (no, sir) because you can say "Amen" to anything he says (See?), because you've got all the old shackles beat off. That's all. You're not trusting a creed; you're trusting in Christ. Yes, sir.

L-79 Yeah, when the old crust gets beat off, then you're all right. You're fixing to be--have a renewed youth then, a renewed life. You got Eternal Life, Zoe, God's own Life dwelling in you. Then you're alive, not dead. Then your desires and affections are on things above, not on the fashions and passions of this world, running around here to dances, and going to picture shows.
And a lot of you Pentecostal people stay home at night and watch televisions and things like that, and miss your prayer meetings, is because that your seminaries out here turned off some sissified Elvis preachers, instead of men of God who will stand and tell you the truth. That's exactly right. What they're trying to do...
You know what kind of a harvest we're reaping out? We're reaping a denominational harvest because we sow denominational seed. That's the only kind of seed can come up is denominational seed, is because that's what we're sowing, trying to get people in this, get people in that.


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