<TITLE>08. Par 79-88</TITLE>L-79 I want to coast here a minute. Pentecost, you know I love you. When I come to you, Jack Moore, Richard T. Reed, Brother G. H. Brown, Brother Ben Pemberton, and other great man, to find out the things that you had, it seemed that we had so much in common till we was like a glove that fit on a hand; I fit right with you. For the Message, not knowing there was such a church, that I believed in, here was a group of people already to receive It. I am still Brother Branham. I am still your brother, and I love you.

L-80 But do you realize, the very thing that God raised you up for, you have surrendered to it. God brought you out of them organizations, years ago, to make a people out of you, and you turned around and organized the thing just of what God brought you out to defy.

L-81   I challenge any persons to show me any place in history, since the church first organized, which was the Roman Catholic church, at the Laodicea, or Nicaea, rather, Rome, when the Catholic church was organized and made an organization. And has any church from Martin Luther, this side...

L-82 When God gave Martin Luther the revelation of justification; and, as soon as Luther was gone, they made an organization out of it, and it fell. Along come Wesley, after him, and Asbury, and so forth, left; they made an organization out of it, and it fell. Along come Alexander Campbell, and it fell, with the organization. Along come John Smith, for the Baptist, and it fell. And every time that man has tried to organize something, of a man-made system, it fell and never did rise again. There is not no history, nowhere, where any church that ever organized, but what did fall, and every one fell, never rose again.

L-83   The children of Israel, in type, was to follow the Pillar of Fire. And every night they must be ready, not to organize and sit down here, but to move with the Fire.

L-84 That's what God wants His people to do, move with the Spirit, move with the time!

L-85 You say, "Well, Brother Branham, we've had all kinds of rains, and inner rains and outer rain." You're intelligent. I don't care what kind of a revelation it is, and how good it looks, if it's not according to God's Word, leave it alone. This is the blueprint through the wilderness, the Word of the Lord.

L-86   But here stands the church today, the Pentecostal church, in about twenty or thirty different organizations, each one calling the other one, this, that, and the other, "buzzard roost," and so forth. What a disgrace, when the very thing that God pulled you out of them denominations for, you turned around and done the very same thing that they did. That's exactly what Samson done. God raised up Samson to destroy the nation. And God raised you up for a people, not an organization.

L-87   But when God started Israel from the... from Egypt, they were only about ten days journey from the promised land, about forty miles. But they stayed in the wilderness for forty years. Why? Grace had furnished them a lamb for their sins, a circumcision of a sign, a Pillar of Fire as a witness, Moses as a prophet. Grace had provided everything they had need of, but they wanted something to do themselves.

L-88 Little did they know, when Miriam was dancing with the tambourine, and the children of Israel dancing with her, and Moses singing in the Spirit, they were only ten days from the full promised land. Little did they know, forty years, and their carcases would rot in the wilderness. What did it? Israel made its most rashel decision it ever made, when it accepted law instead of grace, when they wanted to make some bishops and something of their own, something they had to do into it. God was in the midst of them, leading them.


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