<TITLE>20. Par 73-75</TITLE>L-73 Here we are in that kind of a mess today, setting: the coming of the Lord drawing nigh, everybody asleep just like the Bible said it was. Here we are in that condition, Laodicean church age, the only church age of all the ages that Christ was put outside of His own building, knocking, trying to get back in again. That's right. The Laodicean age, and that's this age--put out by our creeds and dogmas, and adding to the Bible, and taking away from It. And there He stands on the outside trying to get back in. And the church in there thinking that they're doing something. Having a form of godliness...
The Bible speaks of an intellectual age. It said they'd have a... Heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. For this is the sort that goes and leads silly women along with divers lusts, all kinds of things, pattern after some prostitute of Hollywood instead...
Christ is our Example. Hollywood has nothing to do with it, and the fashions of the world and things. We need a clean up. Come back to God.
I know I'm holding you, but I'm intentionally doing this. Notice. We'll get to the point, what I want to say to you.

L-74 Notice, the winds begin to blow. The sea begin to get rough. They'd gone off without Him, gone off on a big program somewhere, gone off to do this, all so interested in this, and that, and the other. And they'd left without Him.
A mixed multitude went up with Moses that caused the trouble. And I think that's about the same thing that's happened today. The Supernatural's been done, and we've brought in a mixed multitude: same thing. That's what causes the trouble. Notice.

L-75 Then the roaring. Satan begin to blow his poison breath across them. "Whew. Whew. Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as this. You need a intellectual education. We cannot put our ministers in the pulpit unless they have a great education." Whoever said so? Where did that come out of the Bible?
Like to them Business Men that night. I said to them, I said, "Where'd you ever get such stuff as that? The first Pentecostals went forth, sold what they had, left their homes, and become poor, the rich did, so that they'd have Eternal Life. And today, you all try and say how much you got. They tried to see how much they could get rid of."
And a certain little singer from Chicago, that wouldn't... Brother... I forget the Italian's name, a little preacher. And he said... He said, "But, Brother Branham, I want to call your attention to something. That was a great mistake that they made."
I said, "What did you say?"
He said, "They made a mistake when they did that."
I said, "The Holy Ghost make a mistake, brother?"
He said, "Why, they made a mistake by selling their property. After while a confusion come up among them, and the people didn't have no place to go."
I said, "Just exactly what God wanted. They went everywhere publishing the Word. They'd did... If they'd had a home, they'd have went back and settled down to it. But God scattered the Gospel by it."
God don't make no mistakes. He might to the intellectual mind, but not to His own way of thinking. Sure.


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