<TITLE>09. Par 77-89</TITLE>L-77   That's the reason we can't have revival. That's the reason something can't go on. That's the reason we been going on, because you've got to get back to that Word again, my brother. Right.

L-78 Such a pity of a thing like that, under the auspices of a Pentecostal movement. You couldn't say God sponsored a thing like that. Certainly not. But what is it? It's something that's got glamour. You seen too much television. You're too much impersonated with the world. That's the reason the whole thing is rotten, and corrupted, and falling apart. Right. It stinks, before God.

L-79 I don't care how much you speak with tongue, how much you shout and run around through the room. I don't care how much you do this, or how big you grow, how many dignitaries you get among you. That has nothing to do with it. You ought to oust some of that, and get the Holy Ghost among you, that'll clean you up, and make a real church out of you. There is the thing. That's exactly the Truth. We...

L-80   What we need, today, is a prophet of the Lord to rise on the scene, with the Word of God, that don't compromise with the things of the world. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's the only hope there is for--for a--a life that is to come, somebody will handle the Gospel; not with rubber ecclesiastical gloves on, believe so much and take away so much. Oh!

L-81 And our denominational difference now has weaved us into about nine hundred different organizations. Our deacons are permitted to have two or three wives, and still serve as deacons. Sometimes a preacher will leave one church and go to another one, because there's more money at one place than there is another. A bigger crowd at one place and a better church, and so forth, have pets and puppets. And, oh, my!

L-82 We want God-called men, rugged, from the wilderness yonder, with a message that like John the Baptist, that'll shake the hide off of some of these so-called religious moves.

L-83 It's a sin. It--it grieves the Holy Spirit. Sometimes, in the visions the Lord gives... Well, I won't get onto that now. See? I was asked the other day... No, I'll just... I'll kee-... Excuse me.

L-84   Now, to the Message of "falling apart." The things that's going on, the things that oughtn't to be--oughtn't to be foreign to the church, yet it is. Speak to them about it, they don't want to believe it. When Noah spoke, they didn't believe it. When Moses spoke, they didn't believe it. When the prophets spoke, they didn't believe it. Certainly. They had their own systems built up. Yes, sir.

L-85 The beautiful virtue, oh, my, of our--of our motherhood, the virtue of our Pentecostal women, has bowed at the shrine of the goddess, Hollywood. And what we used to call "virtue," we call "fashion." It's a disgrace.

L-86   Someone said to me, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, won't you keep off them women, cutting their hair, and wearing shorts, and things? Won't you? Won't you?" Said, "People regard you as a seer from the Lord. Won't you tell them how to see visions?"

L-87 I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they don't even know their ABC's?" And the more you preach, the worse they get. So, you see, the whole system is rotten, falling apart. That's all.

L-88   God will not save the world by an organization or a system. He'll save it by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is the Word made manifest. It's the promises of God made manifest. Yes, sir. We taken our traditions and made the Word of God of non-effect, just like they did in the days when Jesus come. Oh, yes, sir!

L-89 God promised to supply our needs, not our wants. We're always wanting something, but we want it in our own way. You say, "Well, I--I want that. I... Yeah. Well, Lord, send us this and send us that." God knows our needs. That's exactly right. He knows our need.


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