<TITLE>15. Par 143-158</TITLE>L-143 What's the Pentecostals looking for? They're looking for a genius to rise up, that can make them all Assemblies. And the--and the oneness is looking for a oneness that can make them all oneness. The church of God is looking for one, make them all church of God.

L-144 What are you doing? You're organizing Bible schools and educating them; and sending the ones, that God would send, farther away from Him than they was in the beginning. I know you don't agree with that, many of you. But anything...

L-145   My mother used to tell us. When we were kids, we was raised so poor; boil meat skins and--and get grease, to make our cornbread. And every Saturday night we'd have to--to take a dose of castor oil. We--we, our... We had, almost, pellagra, of so much, eat the same thing, of poke greens, and so forth. And mama... I used to hate that stuff. I do, yet, today, when I go to take it. I'd hold my nose, and I say, "Mama, I can't take it. It gags me. It makes me sick."

L-146 She said, "Anything that don't make you sick won't do you no good."

L-147 That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church today. You don't want to listen to something that'll--that'll do you good. It'll make you sick at your--your theological gastronomicals, but it'll do you good. It'll work you out, back to the Word of God, and back to the Faith that was once delivered to the saints; and take away from all this here Bible school, theological seminary, and giving ministers all kinds of degrees. God never did hand out a handful of sour apples like that. He wants men to have Faith, believe what's already wrote. You don't have to accumulate something else.

L-148   I know that's hard. I'm not here to baby you, and make you laugh, and make you shout. I'm here to tell you the Truth in God. And you'll see, someday, if you don't believe It now. Someday will come when you'll say, "That was right." True. You got to get back.

L-149 The whole thing is in this condition. There's nothing left for it, to come, but the Coming of the Lord Jesus. And He won't come for the Assemblies of God. He won't come for the Baptist. He'll come for each individual. That's right.

L-150   [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And as soon as that Light struck that Seed, [Brother Branham snaps his finger once.] they was at Life like that.

L-151 Look at those theologians standing around there, when they seen Him discerning the thoughts that was in their heart. They had seen a lot of carnal impersonations, before, and they said, "This Man is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller." That was theologians.

L-152 Jesus said, "You are of your father, the Devil, and his works you do."

L-153 But when a little prostitute walked up, down there, to the well in Samaria. And Jesus said to her, "Go, get your husband."
She said, "I have none."

L-154 Said, "You've told the truth. You've had five, and the one you're living with is not yours."

L-155 She said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. We know, when Messiah cometh, He'll do these things."
He said, "I am He, that speaks to you."

L-156 What was it? That Light struck that little predestinated seed, and quickly it come to Life. How much different from them theologians, all indocumated!

L-157 She run into the city, said, "Come, see a Man has told me the things I've done. Isn't that that very Messiahic sign that we're to look for?"

L-158 And the doctors of divinity stood around, said, "That Guy is Beelzebub." See, they couldn't explain It. They had no way to explain It. So they had to answer to their congregation, give them some kind of a--a radical idea of their own.


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