<TITLE>23. Par 226-239</TITLE>L-226 That, you, what did you do? You put a True Story magazine on your table, instead of the Bible. Instead of prayer meetings, you had to run out somewhere and do something else. That's what's the matter with the world today. That's what's the matter with our called Christians; dancing, parties, and social drinking, and, oh, everything. See? It's parent delinquency, not child delinquency. The parent is delinquent. That's the one. Notice.

L-227   I said, "What happened, sir?" I said, "You standing here. We're two men that never met before, in life. You're..." He said he was seventy-something years old, just doing that on the side. I said, "I'm a minister." And I said, "You represent the civil laws of the land. I represent the moral laws of the land." And I said, "Now, if somebody broke your civil laws, what happened? You put them in jail, didn't you? You sent them right to jail if they broke the civil laws."
He said, "That's right."

L-228 I said, "If they break these laws they go to hell." I said, "A just judge who... God, upon His Word... Them cases are based upon the laws of the nation. And when they be found transgressed, then there's nothing but penalty to pay. And any law that hasn't got a penalty to it is not a law. Right." I said, "To trangress God's law, His Word, is the Eternal separation from His Presence." I said, "Now you see where we're at."
He said, "The Lord bless you. Where do you preach at?"
And I said, "Just anywhere I can get an open door."

L-229 There you are. See? Just an old man of that age, see, and just seeing it at that time. Transgress the laws of God, which is His Word, and you're hell bound. That's all there is to it. Serve God now.

L-230   We come into this Kingdom by Holy Spirit baptism. And when we come in There, not a make-believe. Some, I don't...

L-231 Now, you, don't--don't get this in your mind, "Now, Brother Branham don't believe that you speak with tongues."

L-232 I do believe you speak with tongue. But just look at them that speak with tongues, and hasn't got It. Look at the... Look the way they act and the way they do. You can tell they haven't got It. See?

L-233 Look at the churches today, say, "We're the Church." Every one of them, "We're the Church."

L-234 There's only one Church, and that's the mystical Body of Christ. When you become in There, you're baptized in There by the Holy Spirit, and It changes your whole being.

L-235   Not long ago. I'll say this, just in regards to something come in my mind. Wife and I, last summer, I come home, off one the meetings. We went to get groceries. We found a--a women wearing a skirt. It was strange thing in our country. They all naked. So, then, we seen that women. She... And we recognized some of them women to--to belong and sing in choirs in churches there. And she said, my wife said, "Billy, what makes them women..." Said, "Why--why do they do that?" Said, "Our people..." Said, "Wonder why?"

L-236 I said, "We're--we're--we're not that. We don't belong to that kingdom." And she said... "Well," I said, "they're not our kind of people."

L-237 And she said, "What do you mean?" Said, "Aren't we Americans?"

L-238 I said, "Oh, no. No, sir." I said, "I go to Germany, I find a German spirit, a national spirit. I go to Sweden, I find a Swedish spirit. I go to India, I find a national spirit. You come to America, you find Ricky, that kind of a spirit, oh, a know-it-all."

L-239   Watch them when they come to the other country. It makes you sick to even think you are American, the way they act. That's right. It's the nastiest acting people, the most impudent, independent, educated idiots. That's right. And the other world knows it. No wonder, we're trying to buy our friendship with our dollars. You don't buy friendship. Now, there's a way... Our nation is rotten to the roots. That's right. There's no hope for it. It's all gone. There's only one thing to look for, the Coming of the Lord. Yeah.
She said "Well, aren't we Americans?"


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