<TITLE>18. Par 177-185</TITLE>L-177 There's a true Church. There's a Church that's waiting for the Coming of the Lord. God will always grant it, but just those who are ordained. You say, "What good will it do to stand, if it's this kind of a system?" There's a predestinated Seed. When that Light strikes, they'll catch it like that. [Brother Branham snapped his finger once--Ed.] She'll bloom. They'll blossom, right now. Sure.

L-178 Others will just go right over the top of it. They believe in their system. And that's just the way it's always, like it was in the days of Noah. They believed the same thing.

L-179 Those who were predestinated to Eternal Life, they got It. "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father draws him. And all the Father hath given Me will come." We just got to scatter the Seed, throw the Light. Oh, each one of you ought to be a lighthouse.

L-180   You Pentecostals who claim to be so much! You Pentecostals who claim to kiss the cup of the golden rims of the blessings of Christ! You women that can go out here and permit and do, and let the ministers of this age tantalize you and tell you it's all right for you to let your kids wear them shorts, and you women, grandmas, cutting your hair. And don't you know the Bible said that a woman... A woman that cuts her hair, the Bible said her husband has a right to put her away. "She's unhonorable." It used to be wrong. Paint? There's only one women in the Bible ever painted her face, and that was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So you see what that would be, common dog meat. So don't--don't... Just keep away from those things. That isn't becoming to Christians. Yeah.

L-181   Tell them about it. "Well, I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the oneness. I belong to this." That's right. That's what you belong to. But if you belonged to Christ, it would be different.

L-182 When the Word of God and the Seed of God was in there, it'd bloom forth an example of Christianity. It would bloom forth something that the world would laugh at and make fun of, like it did the Lord when He come, like did every prophet that come. They laughed and made fun of them, and throwed them into the tombs. But there's coming a resurrection. This world, men can either live for this world, the world to come. Depends on where your thoughts are at, there's where your treasures are also. Let it be on Heaven and the Coming of the Lord. Be an example of womanhood. Be example of manhood. Be example of Christian. Live the Life. Do what's right.

L-183   People today, even our evangelists, are so monied. Everything, they have to have so much money promised and great big things, and building big institutions and things like that, just the very thing that Pentecost come out of. There we are, right back in again. What is it? All glistening and shining. You know, everything has got to shine. Hollywood shines, right, but the Gospel glows. There's a lot of difference between shining and glowing. Where the--the church shines, which is Hollywood fashions, biggest churches, its highest spire, the best dressed crowds, and so forth, it shines with that, the biggest members. The Baptists had, in '44, "A million more in '44," under Dr. Billy Graham and many of those.

L-184   When I set at Billy Graham's breakfast, here not long ago, in our city. The man, the evangelist, a great man of God! I'm praying for him, constantly. He's laying yonder, sick. I have honor for him. He's the type that went down into Sodom yonder, and brought out them Sodomites, every one that could be brought out.

L-185 But, remember, the Church-Elected wasn't in Sodom. There was an Angel stayed up there, too, and He showed them a sign, the Church-Elected.


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