<TITLE>10. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 I believe a man can shout and not be saved. I believe he can run and not be saved. I believe he can speak in tongues and not be saved. I believe he can do any of these things and not be saved. But you can't class everybody that does that now. The other side says, "There's nothing to any of it."
But there's somebody sincere in that. There's somebody got the genuine results, because he entered it sincerely upon the basis of his faith in the shed Blood. And he got the right things. But the other one's only mocking. And there's too much mocking going on, too much impersonation, carnal impersonations, carnal comparisons.

L-37 If you'd come seeking the Holy Spirit, and let Him, the faith that you've got in Him add to that virtue, and to that brotherly kindness (II Peter 1:7), until you're built in the full stature of Christ, then the last thing is love, which God, the Holy Spirit, seals you to your destination.
You can't impersonate. You can impersonate it, but as I said last night, it's just like a--a blackbird putting peacock feathers in his wings and saying, "See, I'm a peacock." He just added them, pushed them in. If there's something on the inside of him, made him push them out, he'd actually be a peacock. Certainly. But some people are trying to do something to look like somebody else, or impersonate somebody else, because they thought they did it. And you see what it does? It brings us back into a ritual and form again. It's the Blood, the Life that electrifies and sanctifies your life. That's right.

L-38 Isaiah spilled it out to them and said, "God said that He's hiding His face from your prayers. You've got your ritualistic form, yet it's the truth. You're doing what He told you, but you're not doing it in sincerity. And you squall out day and night, but God said, 'Your sacrifice is a stink to me, and I will not receive it any more. And when you pray under such conditions, I'll hide My face from you.'"
Oh, God. If people would think of that, it would start a Pentecost. God said, "Though you be correctly in the Word..." But if you don't do it with love and sincerity, God said He would hide His face, and wouldn't hear your prayers. See? That's the way.

L-39 Oh, you said that "You're taking under the Old Testament, Brother Branham." All right. Let's take the New Testament, II Timothy 3. The Holy Spirit warned us that in the last days that the church would get away from the sincerity and the faith. They'd have a form of godliness, but would deny the power that went with the right thing, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Yes, sir.
God hates a powerless religion. And any religion today that hasn't got Christ in it, is powerless. But any religion that Christ in is under His own Blood, and it's got power in it. You say God hates a religion without power? He said, "Your solemn feasts is a stink." I guess He does hate it. He said, "It--it makes Me sick."
And remember, He told this rich Laodicean church that "Because you're lukewarm (in other words, you make Me sick), I'll spue you out of My mouth." And we've come to that age. God, send us an Isaiah to chop the thing to pieces, lay it out before the people: cry out; spare not. You think he'd be accepted? Certainly not. But he'd cry just the same. Solemn feasts, they're a stink.
God hates powerless religion. It's got to have power in it. It's got to have sincerity. Sincerity brings power. Sincerity brings real worship, not forms, but genuine power worship to know that you've passed from death unto Life.


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