<TITLE>17. Par 170-183</TITLE>L-170 But what's the matter? What's the matter? Somebody let down the bars somewhere. An old preacher friend of mine used to say:
We let down the bars, we let down the bars,
We compromised with sin;
We let down the bars, the sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in?

L-171 What's the matter? When you let down the bars, the bars of God's Word! Remember, it was God's program to fortify His Church by His Word, at the beginning.

L-172   And when Eve reasoned and said, "Well, now, isn't it reasonable, I could live just as good," that did it.

L-173 And that's always did it. That's the reason she was forbidden to be a preacher. See, it just let down the bars. That's where (the church) the grass roots of it hatched out, in Pentecost, and that's the grass roots. There's no Scripture for it. See? Now, what do you do then? You get the same conglomeration that you got back there in Eden. Notice, now, then when we come to the Word, you say about It...

L-174 Nobody can withstand That! I challenge anybody to say it. Preached on The Seed Of The Serpent, so many blowed up about it. I've asked some man to come face me down in it. I don't find them.

L-175   At the Chicago not long ago, you got the tapes, they thought they had trapped me into something. They had the whole Greater Ministerial Association of Chicago, Brother what's... and Tommy Hicks and Brother Carlson was there. And two nights before that, the Lord woke me up at night, said, "Go stand by that window." I went, and it was storming. He said, "Now, they've got a trap set for you." He said, "At this breakfast, don't you be afraid. Go on, I'll be with you." Now, this is in the Name of the Lord. You can ask them and find out. It's on tapes, foretold beforehand: Said, "Now, don't be afraid to go, but go stand," said, "I'll be with you."

L-176   And the next day I met Brother Carlson, the head of the chapter there, and Tommy Hicks. And He told me I'd meet them and we'd go to a place called "Town and Country" for breakfast. I set down there just exactly. I said, "Brother Hicks, you are a doctor of divinity and we're going to meet a great group of ministers here, their association of Chicago, why don't you go and speak for me? I've done a lot of things for you." I was just testing him.
He said, "Oh, I couldn't do that, Brother Branham."

L-177 I said; "Well, why don't you go on?" I said, "I'd do anything for you, now why don't you just do that for me?"

L-178 He said, "Oh, I couldn't do it, Brother Branham. They wouldn't stand still for that."
Brother Carlson said, "No, they wouldn't."

L-179 I said, "You know why." I said, "Let me tell you something, is because that you, both of you, know that they've got a question trap set for me." And I said, "You've got it." Now, this is on tape. If you want the tape, we can have it. And you know all these man. So I said, "Night before last, I saw a vision that we would sit here this morning and Tommy would turn this down." I said, "Now watch, you're--you've got that hotel room rented."
"Yes."
"The rent paid on it."
"Yes," Brother Carlson.

L-180 "But you're not going to get to keep it. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD!"
"Why?''

L-181 "You're going to go into some other place. That's a--that's a green room; we're going into a brown room. I'm going to be in the corner; Doctor Mead will sit to my right; and that old colored minister and his wife will sit over here at the left," just the way it would be like that. And I said, "You watch now, just come along. You've seen God heal the sick, watch Him in battle one time!" I said, "He's great, marvelous." I said, "Just watch the questions and see how hushed it is."
And when we got there that morning...

L-182   If you want the tape... Jim, you got it, haven't you brought it? Right here, right here, you can have the tape if you want it, at the meeting.

L-183 I said, "What you got against me? What's the matter with you fellows?"


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