<TITLE>29. Par -</TITLE>L-785-205 Now, brother, that's some way of going. I'd rather just go buy me a Bible. See? If you don't go to church because you love the Lord, you might as well stay away. That's all. See? Because... You go there for you love God. I think of this song we sing,
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love,
The fellowship of kindred mind
Is like to that above.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain,
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
See? That's it. "When we asunder part, it gives us inward pain." I've seen the time, brethren... Let me not condemn us, but let me just wake us up to something. I've seen the time in this church, that when people had to wait until Wednesday night to meet one another, they would cry over it. That's right. I've seen ministers come in here and would say, "How do you do it?" Well, them people just one heart. See?
They meet at the door and say, them sisters meet one another back there and hug each other and saying, "Sister, be sure to pray for me now, honey; I'll see you again Wednesday night. You'll pray, won't you? You pray for me; I'll be praying for you." And making like that, and tears in their eyes.
See the brothers shake one another's hands and just could hardly get away from each other like that. That's real Christian fellowship. See? See, just waiting, praying for each other. Yes, sir. That's the way we should be. All right.

L-786-209 Now, these men that made these statements, they wasn't bad men. They didn't mean to be evil; they thought they were doing a service for God. Them Pharisees and things, they wasn't bootleggers and drunkards; they were religious men. They wasn't bad, they just--they just did not accept the Word of the Truth. They did not accept the Spirit. Why? They held to their creeds and their--their leaders' tradition. See? It showed that they loved their leaders.
Here's big Caiaphas, the high priest, there's the rest of those big priests. And those men go along. Now, you take like Catholic, today. Not throwing off to them: same thing in Protestants. You take a Catholic; he loves his priest. And a--and I'll tell him about the Word of the Lord, and--and he sees the works of God. He'll say, "But my--my church don't believe that." And you go talking and pinching there, and say... A woman said to me the other day, said, "It's a sin for me to listen to you." See? She didn't want to be bad. She just thought so much of her church and her priest till if she listened to anything else... She was loyal to that priest.

L-786-211 Jehovah Witness is loyal to what they believe. The Baptists is loyal to what they believe. The Presbyterian is loyal to what they believe, and they're just as loyal to their pastors. Can't we be that loyal to the Word? See? Now, if those...
I want to ask you something. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, how do you know they're not?" Now, if those Pharisees and Sadducees and leaders of that day would've got away from their creeds and their dogmas and listened to what the Word said and what Jesus was telling them (just exactly what Messiah was supposed to do), they would've held on to Him. See? But they thought so much of their leaders. They wasn't bad men. They wouldn't steal, lie, cuss, anything like that; they wouldn't do that. They wouldn't commit adultery. Why, certainly not. Why, they would witness the stoning of one that had did such a thing. And they wouldn't--they wouldn't do that. They were good men, but the only thing it was; they wasn't spiritual men. Morally they were fine, but that isn't what counts. And what did Jesus tell them? Even them loyal people, He said, "You are of your father, the devil." See? It's the Word that counts.


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