<TITLE>22. Par 246-262</TITLE>L-246 Be a guard, guard the ball, not try to take it away from next man.
247"Glory to God! If he can do it over here on this corner, God bless him.

L-248 I--I--I'm a Oneness, I can do it. I'm a Trinitarian, I can do it. He ain't got no business doing that." You're knocking the ball out of your own players' hands.

L-249 All you Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Lutherans, oneness, twoness, threeness, if you're riding a one-hump camel, two-hump camels, or if you got a dozen humps, what difference does it make? Let's all come to this well, "A fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunge beneath the flood."

L-250 Let's guard the Ball. This is the Ball. The Holy Spirit is trying to pack It. It'll condemn communism. It'll condemn sin. It'll condemn unrighteousness. It'll manifest and glorify Jesus Christ, and bring His Person into the midst of the people. Amen. Sure. No. Yes, sir.

L-251   The vision of the prophet caused a confession. You just get in the Presence of God, once. You see a vision, a true vision from God, you see how little you are. That's why I'm on the West Coast now. Notice. Just get in the Presence of God, once, and see what happens. See? It caused a prophet... What did this prophet?

L-252 I really am going to close. The prophet, a man of influence, a called man; beyond a bishop, beyond a state presbyter, beyond a clergyman, a doctor of degree. He said, "I'm a sinner, and I'm a man of unclean lips." Whew! A man who had an office as a prophet, and, when them Angels come around, and he recognized that he was a sinner.

L-253 And yet our women can wear short hair, dance in the Spirit. "The rain falls on the just and the unjust."

L-254 Our men can cling to their organizations, and call everything else a devil, that's not with them; and still dance in the Spirit, and preach the Gospel, and call themself... Oh, brother, there is something wrong. That's right.

L-255 Now, don't--don't get angry with me. You believe. Just--just--just be sincere before God, while I finish here, a minute.

L-256   It caused this great prophet to say, "I'm a sinner. I, I'm a man of unclean lips." Then, when he ready to confess, then come the cleansing. Did you notice that? He said, "Oh, I'm a man undone. I'm a man of unclean lips, though I'm the highest order of spirituality, or the spiritual office, in the land. I'm a prophet of this land, but I'm unclean. My lips are not clean. I'm all undone. Woe is me. I see the Lord God of hosts."

L-257 When them Angels had Their faces covered, to stand in His Presence, then you realize. If the church could only realize that this Holy Spirit is the Lord God of hosts! Cover your face, your feet. Get down.

L-258   He confessed, notice, then come his cleansing. Now I'm going to say something, but don't get hurt. His cleansing never come by a creed. It come by Fire. His cleansing never come by the declaration of some book, what So-and-so said. His cleansing came by the Fire. The Angel went and got Fire off the altar and laid It on the prophet's lips. The cleansing comes by Holy Ghost and Fire, not a new bachelor of art, or a doctor's degree, or something.

L-259 As Parris Reedhead said not long ago, when he received the Holy Ghost, in my front room, he said, "Brother Branham, I've got enough degrees to plaster your wall. But where is God in all of it?" He said, "Has the teachers been wrong?"

L-260 I said, "Me, with a seventh-grade education, say the teachers are wrong? I'm not that. They were right in what they taught, I guess, but they never taught far enough."

L-261 Like the man eating watermelon, he said, "That part was good, but there's some more of it?" Just give him a bite, then take it away from him? No, sir.

L-262   Like feeding a canary bird, great big hunks of vitamins, to make great big fine speckled wings, and of wings, and make fine bones, and make him a big strong bird, then put him in a cage. He can't use it.


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