<TITLE>17. Par 164-177</TITLE>L-164 And that's just where he wants to catch you. You don't believe that bobbing your hair is wrong, women. You just come back to the Bible and find out whether it's right or not. You don't think these things are wrong. He catches you away from Jesus. That's all. You live a good, godly life, and watch what takes place. Some people says...

L-165   Woman said to me, the other day, she said, "Brother Branham. I want to tell you right now. You was talking about our dresses, the way we were wearing them, so tight the skin is on the outside."
And I said, "Well, I want to tell you something."
She said, "That's the only kind of a dress they make now."

L-166 I said, "That's no excuse. They still got goods and have sewing machines. You can't get... There's no excuse for it, at all. No, sir." I said, "Go ahead, and someday you're going to answer for committing adultery."

L-167 I don't care how clean you are, how pure you are to your husband, your boyfriend. You dress yourself all sexy and start down that street, some sinner looks upon you in the wrong way, and on the Day of Judgment, he'll have to answer for it. And who did it? You. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart already." And you presented yourself that way.

L-168 God, send us a revival before we perish. That's right. We need an old-fashion, God-sent, soul-stirring revival, yes, find Christ back among us, find Christ in the old-fashion altars and meetings that we used to have years ago.

L-169   Now, Satan said, "They've gone off without Him, and I've got them away. I think..."

L-170 Don't you believe, brother, now? We know there's all different denominations here, and--and I belong to all of them. So, but, don't you think that this time of prosperity... We've been building new buildings. We been buying everything new, and all the congregation has got plenty of money, and dresses better. I think we kind of went off on some kind of a tantrum, and we've left Christ somewhere. See?
And now he sees us setting like this out here.

L-171 The revival is over. And we here, not long ago, why, the revival was burning, and now it seems like it's kind of hard to get the church filled up. The pastors tell me that it's--it's hard, now days. And the people won't go to church. They rather stay home and watch television, and, or something. The love has gone out of their heart.

L-172 And Satan has seen us go off on this tantrum, and went off without Jesus, and he thinks it's his opportunity.

L-173 Said, "Now I'll sink them. When I've got them off, I'll sink them. That's just be the thing that I'll do. I caught them now without Christ. They left Him behind."

L-174   And, see, they were so busy, and had so much to do, and waving to the people, and so much social affairs, and everything, till they forgot to take Him along.

L-175 I think that's what we've got, so much of our programs, till we've left out Jesus. The things that our father and mother fought so hard for, laid out on the railroad tracks, and eat corn, and wheat, and whatever they could get, to preach this Gospel. And today we just slop along. See? It isn't right. We should be on fire.

L-176 And Satan sees this, and he's just like it was then. He said, "I'll sink them out there, tonight, because Jesus is away from them." Now, the winds begin to blow. Trouble begin to set in. And seemed like nobody had the answer.

L-177   Now we've got hydrogen bombs and astronauts, and everything else, but seems like nobody has got the answer. They're having all kinds of conferences and meetings, trying to figure out if they can't beating somebody to the moon. I ain't worried about getting to the moon. I want to go past the moon, when I get started up.


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