<TITLE>17. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 I said something about it one time, and a lady met me outside. She said, "Mr. Branham, I give you to understand I'm Pentecostal."
I said, "Well, praise the Lord. Then act like it."
She said-she said, "Well," she said, "do you think it's wrong, then, for a woman... You said about a woman putting on a man's garment?"
I said, "The Bible said..."
She said, "I don't wear shorts." She said, "I wear slacks."
I said, "That's worse. The Bible said it's abomination for a woman to put on a garment pertains to a man." Right.
God is infinite. God can never change. His decision is perfect. Show me one time God changes. He doesn't. He made the recommendation in the garden of Eden that the only place to worship God was under the blood, and He's never changed it. It's always. He only glorifies it. "You've heard them say, them of old time, 'Thou shalt not kill.' But I say to you, whosoever is angry with his brother... You heard them say, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' But I say unto you, whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her..."

L-64 Listen here. She said, "Well, I tell you now," she said, "they don't make clothes like the--like that."
I said, "They still make sewing machines and sell goods." There's no--no excuse. You see? Just--you're just going to be left without an excuse. Listen. Let me ask--just say just this one thing, I'm going to leave the subject, 'cause that's for your pastors. But I just--just to let you know what I think about it.
Now, look. When you come to the judgment bar, did you know you can be condemned right there for committing adultery, and yet be just as pure as a lily? Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her..." And some of you women let your girls go out there, and put on them clothes, and walk out there. Now, what if that sinner comes down that street and looks upon that woman lustfully? He's going to have to answer for it at the day of judgment for committing adultery. Who did it? Who's guilty? She was for presenting herself like that. That's exactly right. Don't fall out with me, talk to God about it. That--that's right.

L-65 But that's what... the Holy Ghost comes up before the Father, and says, "How could we ever build a church upon something like that?" How can... Listen, friends, it's time to clean from the top of the pulpit plumb down to the janitor down there, and start over. It's just like a bunch of...
You take the birds lay their eggs in the springtime. The old mother bird can lay a nest of eggs, and she don't have to be with her mate. But she can lay them eggs, and she can hover them, she can turn them, and she can stay there till she starves herself, till she gets so poor she can't get off the nest. And they'll never hatch. Why? They're rotten. They rot right in the nest.

L-66 And that's just what's the matter today. We just took in so many members, and so forth, and babying them here, and babying them there: just got a nest full of rotten eggs. It's time to clean the thing out, and get them people with the mate, Christ Jesus, with the Word of God back in action, and power. Then we'll have a revival that'll shake something and do something. Then you'll see Christ ride in on the scene on the power. He cannot come as long as these things are blocking Him. That's right.
No wonder the Tutor come up before the father, and blushes, and say, "Yeah, Your churches... Yeah, I know it says that, but they--they don't do it."
"You mean they're not?"
"They're not doing it."


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