<TITLE>20. Par 97-101</TITLE>L-97 But they'd try to make a puppet out of Him, pack Him around from place to place like that Pharisee did: brought Him down there to give some entertainment to get a big bunch of guests around, could prove that He wasn't a Prophet. You know the story I teach on that. See? They'd do the same thing today for what he could get together to bring around for their entertainment, they'd do the same thing. And He'd go. Hallelujah. He'd go, for He always goes where He's invited, when He knowed what that Pharisee was going to do. He knowed that Pharisee had no use for Him. He knowed there's a trump up the sleeve somewhere. Them Pharisees had nothing to do with Him; they hated Him.
And this old Simon wanted Him to come down there so He could bring the crowd around his place. But He knew it. He walked on in. Did he pay much attention to Him? It was the dignitaries he was paying attention to. He set back with unwashed feet. It'd be the same thing today. They don't want Christ. They don't want God's way. You see?

L-98 Yeah, Jesus would say, "You are of your father the devil." And those men kept that laws and things and everything in their denomination and creeds just to the letter; they washed pots. And Jesus said, "You've taken Your creeds and made God's Word of non-effect by your traditions." And Hebrews 9:12 says over there, I believe, no, it's Hebrews 12... no, 9:12 I believe it is, somewhere right along in there, he said that when we are cleansed and pardoned, we are purified from dead carnal works. And when we are truly pardoned of our sins by the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost comes into us and we're dead with carnal works.
Oh, you Pentecostal church, why did you make such a mistake? You blind leading the blind, don't you know you come out of that fifty years ago, and drawed this group of people right back into it? Can't you hear the Word of the Lord? Dry bones, what's the matter with you? You won't receive what's sent to you. They wouldn't then; they won't now.

L-99 Now, what do you know? Again, so again his plans and the plans of the world of denomination and creed is falling apart. Man's plans is falling apart. God never offered us a creed. He never offered us a denomination. I want somebody to show me in the Bible where He did. I can show you where He told you not to do it. You show me where He said do it. You say, "Then, Brother Branham, what did Jesus offer men?" A Kingdom. Hallelujah. And He is the King, King of saints, Lord of lords. He offered us a Kingdom, not a politician, denominational system, but a Kingdom. He said to Pilate; Pilate said, "Are You the King of the Jews?"
He said, "You said it." He said, "If My Kingdom was of this world, My men would fight for Me, but My Kingdom is of above."

L-101 And why are we to hold to these things of the world when we're children of the Kingdom which is above? See, there's something wrong somewhere. But we wasn't offered a system. We wasn't offered no organization; we wasn't offered a--a political rulership of the world; but we were given a Kingdom of meekness, as the Life of the Lamb is in us. Not of the world, you're no more of the world. "Little children, you're not of the world. I pray, Father, that as I am not of the world, that they may not be of the world." See? That's what Jesus prayed for us. And yet we turn right back around and put ourself in worldly hookups in there where all kinds of people are taken in. Now, you know there's not a church in the world but what's full of hypocrites. And Jesus said, "Don't yoke yourself up among unbelievers."


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