<TITLE>26. Par 179-186</TITLE>L-179   If there is any here, with your heads bowed now, would want to be remembered in prayer as we close, would you just raise up your hand and say, "Brother, pray for me." God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother, sister. Oh, just over the building.

L-180 That's it, let's just take a little inventory now. You sisters now, with all good faith and hope, just think of this. "Have I really obeyed God? Really, where is my desire? Brother Branham, I--I--I--I still do these things. I--I feel good. I feel happy."
Do you know heathens feel just as happy? You know, a drunk man is just as happy, under liquor, as you are, the influence of liquor? And if you're happy under anything that's contrary to the Word of God, it's the devil. If you say, "I'm satisfied in my church," and you hear the Word of God preached, and won't tally up to It, you're inspired by the wrong thing, no matter what your inspiration is. I've seen them scream, and jump and holler, and--and everything, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil, that's right, just as happy as you ever could be. Heathenism produces just as much psychology as anything else, psychics of the mind. But the experience of Christ is of the heart, that change the whole make up, changes the person into a new creature. Think of it, real hard.

L-181   Look at yourself. Just imagine a mirror before you, you're look at yourself. "Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really, in my heart, do I serve the Lord?"

L-182 Say, "I serve It." And look in, you women with bobbed hair, wear shorts. Look at you that does these things. Look at you man who let your wives do it; say, "Am I a son of God? Am I a Sodomite?" You women say, "Am I really a modern woman, or am I some antediluvian something that Jesus said would be here in the last days again?" Think it over. Look at yourself.

L-183 See, your own being expresses what you are. And if you're not right, will you be honest enough just to... Be honest now, raise your hand, say, "Christ, I don't hold my hand to Brother Branham or to no other person but You, but I am wrong. Forgive me. Brother Branham promised to pray for me, now I'm going to raise my hand, say, 'Jesus, have mercy on me tonight. Save me for Christ's sake. I don't want to be lost. All this life You've give me, it would be a most horrible thing if I--if I just throw it away, when I have this golden opportunity tonight to really see with my own eyes that the red lights are flashing on every side; the Coming of the Lord, the promise that He would show these signs, and He'd heal the sick, He'd raise the dead, He'd cast out devils; there'd be a bunch--a bunch, just a few people, just a minority that the world would be making fun of, and calling bad names, and so forth, like that.'"

L-184   And they have to call us bad names. They have to call the Truth bad names. Jesus said, "Whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven, when He's doing the very same thing you see done." He said, "But whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, when It comes to do the same thing, will never be forgiven in this world." See, they have to do that. There has to be a Message like that, to make the people make fun of It, to show God's justice to condemn the whole world and destroy it.

L-185 While there is mercy and someone standing in the gap, Jesus Christ, and a open door tonight, won't you receive Him, my friend?

L-186 Now, customarily, it's come to the altar. That's all right. I have nothing against it. But the Scripture, It said, "As many as believed was baptized." From all your heart, if you'll surrender your life to Jesus Christ right where you're setting, right where He spoke to you when you raised your hand!


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