<TITLE>07. Par 74-89</TITLE>L-74   Now, Israel was very sincere in what they did, at the beginning. Oh, I can imagine a Jew coming down the road, with his slick sacrifice, the best he's got in his herd, going down to the--the sacrifice. Puts his hand upon the animal. And identifies himself with the animal, by placing his hand upon this animal, and then the blood is shed. And that Jew goes back home, just as happy as he could be, because he knowed he had done Jehovah's bidding. That was fine for a long time.

L-75 Then, after while, that same thing become a family tradition. There was the same kind of an animal, but someone would perhaps say, "You know, this is the new moon." Perhaps, maybe, "Yes, I've got to offer a sacrifice." When, He took down the way the first man did, but he--he didn't have that sincerity to it.

L-76 And when he did, Jehovah said, "The thing has become a stink in My nose."

L-77 And He raised a great man on the scene, Isaiah the prophet, who cried out, said, "Your sacrifices, your solemn feasts, is a stink before Me."

L-78 Be careful, Pentecost. Your sacrifices and rejoicing will become a stink in the nostrils of Jehovah, if it isn't entered with deepness of sincerity. We, we must come deadly sincere, not just laughing, and rejoicing, and rallying around. We've got to come deeply and sincerely to the Word of the promise. There, take a hold of the altar, stay there until something happens, till we thoroughly die out, till we are making an--an investment in the Kingdom of God and Jesus Christ. Then we're on... No matter how fundamentally. We can be fundamentally, yet you got to come under sincerity.

L-79   Now, this young Jew was just as sincere as he could be, in what he was doing. But when the--the time come to change his creed, then that's where the trouble come.

L-80 I wonder if the same God isn't just as able today to rise us up an Isaiah, to rise us up somebody that can tell us that our solemn feasts becomes a stink. We should be ready for the Rapture, at this time of the age. Look where we're at. There is something needed, and, that's, back to the Word. We're promised over in Malachi that we would be brought back to the Word, the original Faith, and so let's remember that now.

L-81 But the--the price that this young fellow was asked to pay was too great. He had to sell out all of his worldly possessions, in order to have this Eternal Life.

L-82 You might not have a dime, but yet you do hold things, that, it's worldly possession.

L-83   For instance, I been bawling our women out, so much, about bobbing their hair and wearing sexy dresses and things. How can you dance in the Spirit and call yourself Pentecost, and live with such a spirit as that on you? How can you men call yourself rulers of your home, and permit such? I want you to take inventory. You know it's the Truth. And there you are. See? You're asked to sacrifice.

L-84 You say, "Wait a minute, Brother Branham. I'm an American citizen. I'm Pentecostal. I--I belong to the Assemblies, or the--the other groups, or whatever it is. I have American right for this. And being a Christian, I have a right, because I accept the Sacrifice." That's what's the matter with America. That's where she's in the twist, today.
Every nation wants a messiah.

L-85   And when God sent Israel a Messiah, they was all praying for a Messiah. In the days of the coming of the Messiah, Israel wanted a general that would come out and stomp Rome plumb out of the country.

L-86 At the same time, Rome wanted a messiah that would come and--and make them a new great military regime that would--would take Egypt and all the rest of the nations, and stomp them out.

L-87 Each one wanted a messiah. And today we find it the same thing. Europe...

L-88 Well, for instance, Russia, they want a messiah that can take them to the moon before anybody else gets there.

L-89 India is wanting a messiah, and they want one that'll feed them without working for it.


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