<TITLE>24. Par 254-269</TITLE>L-254 You know, jewels are found in the earth, materials that we beat together. But, you know, if you find in that, something mixed into it, that nugget that you got will break apart. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

L-255 So, if you're trying to be a stone cut out of God, some material, and you find out you try to make yourself too big, and in between there you had to squeeze some world into it, that stone will break. It won't stand the test. And, listen, God will not accept us, Pentecostal people, when we inject dogmas and everything else in God's Word. It'll... God will reject the stone and kick it over to one side. Let's not look for big things.
Let's look for Christ in our life. Let's look for humility. See?

L-256   Remember, if the stone is big, and you're trying to spread out, that's what I'm afraid we're trying to do. That's what a talk I got with these Business Men. It seem like they're outgrowing something. And I--I... That's the reason I hate to... I--I--I like to be honest with you, brethren. I got to meet you yonder in Judgment someday. That's the reason the church thinks I'm against the church. I'm not against the church. I'm...

L-257 Why would I identify myself here with you? If I thought the Baptist was right, the Methodist was right, the Presbyterian was right, I'd be with them. I'm here with you because I'm identifying myself here with you.

L-258 But don't try to outgrow your bounds now, be something that you're not. Don't try to make yourself some big, compare with somebody else, and work some worldly-ism in there, to get more members and things. The thing will break right smack in two, and God will cast it into the heap over yonder, to be remolded.

L-259 He will raise up children of these other stones, to Abraham. That's right. He'll do it. He'll take the Presbyterian, bring something out of it; the Methodist, or Baptist. And looks like He's started that way.

L-260   Are you hearing me, Business Men? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Just because we bear the name of "Pentecost," that don't mean nothing to God. No, sir.

L-261 Pentecost is not an organization. Pentecost is an experience. It's a reflection of Christ, where He started on the Day of Pentecost, to reflecting Himself to the people.

L-262 And then the people begin to add worldliness. What happened? They went into the Nicaea Council, and--and rejected the plain promises of God, and put dogma into it. And she broke the Christian experience all to pieces, and she went off into Catholicism.

L-263 Luther started a reform. And he projected, and it broke the thing up again.

L-264 Methodists come along with sanctification. And he started projecting, and he done the same thing.

L-265 And the Pentecostals are doing the very same thing. Oh! Well, you look at it, you can see it.

L-266   "How do you," say, "how do you know those things?" Well, let me tell you something.
"Brother Branham, are you prophesying?"

L-267 I'm not exactly prophesying. But when a doctor examines a patient, he sees the symptoms, he knows what's going to happen. I'm reading out of the Doctor's Book. And I see the symptoms working in the Pentecostal church, and I know where she is headed.

L-268 Stop it. Quit. Come back. God help you. Don't go that way, people. Can't you see what I'm trying to do? I'm burning my life up, to try to save you from this crazy thing you're running into. Day after day, year after year, I cry myself out. And you think I'm your enemy. I'm your brother. Come back. Don't go that way. Don't you see what happened when the others went that way?

L-269   Business Men, stay off of that track. Now you're writing all kinds of creeds up in your magazines, and that associates you just as much denomination as the rest of them. You know that is just so. Don't you see? You're coming right into the thing you been standing against. Now, you won't love me, maybe. Forever, that's true. You mark my word down. Turn, or you're gone.


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