<TITLE>12. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 Now. But if there's a question... Men come, said, "Do you think it's wrong to smoke?"
"What are you asking about it for?" If it's a question in your mind, leave it alone. For anything you don't do by faith is sin. That's right. Got to be by faith. So how can you smoke and have faith? See, it's right in your own conscience shows you that you're wrong. So if it's uncertain, you better leave it alone, 'cause that might be the one thing that keeps you out of the Kingdom of God.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, one little thing like that?"
One little thing like that will do it, just disobeying one commandment of God. One little disobedient, one commandment, caused all sickness. And look, Jesus said in His own text in His sermon, "Remember Lot's wife."
Now, she had a lot more excuse than what we have today, doing the things that we do. That woman's children and grandchildren was burning up in the fires of hell sent down from God. And the poor thing, screaming and crying going up there, and she merely turned to look back, and she turned to a pillar of salt, and stands there yet today. And Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife." We've got to keep every Word of God. See? Just one little thing...

L-42 That's the reason sometimes people think I--I--I get rough with people, bawling them out. It's not 'cause I don't love you, it's because I do love you. What if your little boy was setting out in the street, and you said, "Junior, dear, I--I... You shouldn't set out there. Daddy don't want to hurt..." You'd better strip the hide off of him, if you love him. Keep him in off of that street. Real love is corrective. Genuine love is corrective.
What if your wife was running around with some other man, and you said, "Dear, I--I hope you have a good time, but really I don't think you should do it." She ought to kick you out the door. That's right. Yeah. Real love is corrective. That's right.

L-43 Now, uncertainty... The American home today is uncertain. A man marrying a wife, it--it sure is a problem, certainly is. Or a woman marrying a man, it's certainly an uncertain thing. They even got it in the--the marriage ceremony now, "I take him for better or worse." There's a question on it, uncertain. Be good to pray through on it, don't you think so? Think that would be better. Pray through. But it's uncertain.
Homes are broke up, remarriage, constantly all the time. Uncertainty of home life. America leads the world in divorce cases. All the rest of the world, America leads it.
Business, uncertainty in business. You don't know whether to start a business or not. There's so much competition; there's so much everything; you don't know whether to start or not. It's kind of questionable.
And another thing is national life. We don't know whether to build a home or not. Might be blowed up before morning. You can't tell. Russia's standing there. They got a--a--a bunch of missiles set. The only thing... They don't need a army. Just one man with a little too much vodka to pull a line, and we go to dust. No way... They got it set on everywhere. That's all.


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