<TITLE>26. Par 89-91</TITLE>L-89 Don't want to hurt your feelings, but how can you women set here and know that the Bible tells you that it's wrong for even you to cut your hair, that you dishonor your husband when you do it? You prove yourself as a woman of the street when you do such a thing. And because of the Angel, you should have long hair. What Angel? The Angel of the covenant, the Angel, the messenger of the day, the seventh Angel which is sounding today. Then still know that you're wrong? Your Adam might've let you go ahead and act wrong, Eve, and say it don't make a difference. It certainly does make a difference. You... Every commandment of God is right. Eve only turned her--just aside for a minute. If you're wrong, admit you're wrong. Your own life proves you're wrong.

L-90 Someone got after me, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, why do you say that to them women, about their dressing?" A great man. Said, "I'll lay my hands on you, and pray for you."
I said, "If you let me lay my hands on you and pray for you..." I said, "Listen..."
He said, "Why don't you leave them women alone? People regard you as a prophet."
I said, "I'm no prophet."
He said, "People regard you as that. Why don't you teach them how to get great spiritual gifts and things?"
I said, "If they haven't got the common decency to learn their ABC's, how do they--will know how to learn algebra if they don't even take their ABC's?"
ABC is "Always Believe Christ." Take His Word first. Let it be first in your life. If you can't do that, how are you going to learn anything else? How's the Pentecostal church ever going to rise above things that it knows, that'll lay in your way as long as you live? Now, you mark it and find out if it doesn't.
Remember, if that don't haunt you as long as you live... And if one sin kept Eve, or made all this... Every sickness, death, and sorrow come from one woman just reasoning it was all right.

L-91 It's your American privilege, you say. Oh, yeah. If you're a lamb, a lamb forfeits his rights. He don't have but one thing: wool, and he forfeits that. If you're a lamb you'll forfeit your American rights to serve God.
Say, "I can dress the way I want to. It's none of your business."
It's not me, brother, sister. It's the Bible. God made a man, and made him dress like a man, made a woman to dress like a woman, made them act different, and made two covenants with them, and everything else. It's always been.
The light has come. Your Adam might let you get by with it. But brother, God won't, 'cause that's His Word. Now, you men set around and do such things as that. Aren't you ashamed, brother, deacons? Men who say they're men of God act like that, when... That's--that's just the very first primer lesson of it. How can you go into deep things of discerning the Spirit and things like that, if you don't even take the first things?
Meet God, and find out what's different. Find the difference. It'll make you act right. It'll do something to you. It'll change you. Now, the Bible says that.
You women wouldn't put on manicure, or makeup, whatever you call it, for nothing. The Bible says nothing about that. But look what you're doing now, something the Bible does say not to do. See?
You... Probably you men wouldn't get drunk for nothing in the world, then have two or three different wives living, be deacon in the church.
Proselyting, "Compass seas," Jesus said, "to make one proselyte..."


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