<TITLE>20. Par 80-84</TITLE>L-80 You ought to get people to Christ, and forget about your denominational difference. Get them back to holy living by a holy God by the Holy Ghost, and see the power of God move like it did one time. Amen. Call ourselves Christians and deny the Word, "form of godliness but deny the power thereof..." And then say, "Well, what we need today..." No wonder we got pressure built up.
Is the Methodist right? A girl come to me not long ago. She said, "Brother Branham, do you believe it's wrong for a Holy Ghost girl to wear scandal skirts?"
I said, "What is a scandal skirt?"
And she said, "Well, it's so-and-so, and the skirts, the underneath, show."
I said, "What in the world would a Holy Ghost girl want to show her underskirt for?"
Shame, shame. Why, what's the matter with--what's the matter with our brothers today? What's the matter with the preaching today? They're afraid to do it, 'cause it's a meal ticket, afraid you'd get kicked out. Why, they... Why, they wouldn't have to kick me out. I got out anyhow.

L-81 And I wasn't going to bundle myself up amongst unbelievers. Jesus said don't do that. "Don't yoke yourself with unbelievers; but come out from among them. Be ye separate, saith God, and I'll receive you."
No wonder things can't take place. No wonder we're trying to build a Pentecostal revival. No wonder we've failed. To do the things we're doing... Why, brother, we're sowing the wrong seed. We're sowing what our organizations believe, what our creeds teach us.
Billy Graham could cross the country a thousand times, and Oral Roberts, and--and Jack Shulers, and all the rest of them. It'll never do no good until we come back to God, back to the...

L-82 And how in the world can a government build itself? You say, "It's the government." You know what's the matter with the government? It's because we elect ourselves. It's the people where the 'cause--the trouble's at. We elect the kind of government we got. Because that's what's right in our heart. That's what we're trying to do. The people want something like that. They vote for it.

L-83 Go to a church... I was at a charge not long ago, where a little brother had been preaching for about six months. And the trustees and the deacon board called him up and said, "You'll have to stop that. We won't put up with such as that."
Said, "Stop what?"
Said, "That--that message that you're preaching."
Said, "Message? I'm preaching the Bible."
He said, "We don't believe no such."
"Well, it's the Bible."
You know what they did? They said we would throw him out.
He said, "You don't have to. I'm already out." That's right. Sure.
What's the matter, the people? It's a meal ticket. I'd rather... you say, "Well, you can't, you... They're afraid that the people--if you don't have a card..."

L-84 Could you imagine Amos having a card that day when he come down there to preach to the people? Said, "Here's my fellowship card. I got cooperation with all the Pharisees and Sadducees." They hated him. That's right. They would today. If he stood today, he'd stand right on this Word, the same thing, and condemn from the--from the Catholic plumb to the Pentecostals. He'd do the same thing. He sure would. He wouldn't--he wouldn't have no cooperation. He wouldn't have to pack a fellowship card. But he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's what the people didn't want.
You think he'd walk through the streets today and see the people, you think his righteous soul could stand still? Certainly not, no. That's what's the matter. Our pressure's build up. That's what's the matter with our nation today. That's what's the matter with our world today.


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