<TITLE>25. Par 192-198</TITLE>L-192 Though they call themselves Christians, they love to hold to the creeds, their creeds. Oh! The creeds institutes and fulfills the thinking of the modern people of this day. And a man that's going to be a success in this day, has to go with the modern trend of thinking. Let me say that good and clear. See? A man, if you're going to be a success, you have to go with the modern thinking of this day. It... They go around, say, "Oh, isn't he a darling? Isn't he wonderful? He can just stay there so straight, and he never keeps us over fifteen minutes. And our pastor don't always bawl us out about these things."
Shame on that pastor. Any man that can stand in the pulpit and look upon the sin of this day, and not cry out, there is something wrong with that man. He's not worthy of the Gospel that he claims to be preaching. That's right. So, by doing so, they make themselves excuses, by saying, "Now, look, my congregation!"

L-193   A--a man come here, not long ago, to a certain great church, and he was writing a thesis. And he said, "I'm writing on Divine healing." Said, "Brother Branham, we love you, in our denomination." One of the greatest denominations, one of the greats of the nation, or the world. And he said, "We love you, in this denomination." He was right here at the Jefferson Villa. But, say, "I come to find out about this Divine healing." He said, "There's only one fault that my church really finds." See? He said, "You associate around too many Pentecostals."
I said, "Well, now, you know, that is right." I said, "That's true. You know, I've always wanted an opportunity to get away from them." I said, "I'll tell you what. I'll come to your town, you get your church to sponsor me."
"Oh," he said, "they wouldn't."
I said, "That's what I thought. That's what I thought."

L-194 Said, "You see my denomination won't stand for that." That's as much excuse, as, "I've married a wife," or "bought a yoke of ox." I don't care how many doctor degrees you've got, and how much you're looked up to, by your denomination. That sort of a ministry is not worthy of the Gospel that's wrote in this Book. Right.

L-195   Any church member that'll side in with such stuff as that, and call themselves a Christian! And go out going and live... And the women bobbing their hair, and wearing clothes that the Bible says for them not to. Men carrying on the way they're doing now, "a form of godliness," taking drinks and smoking cigars, and marrying several times and becoming deacons of the church and even pastors, and so forth. And the people that put up with such as that, that sort of life is not worthy of the Gospel.

L-196 A woman that'll walk, and get on the telephone and tattle, and start fusses in the church, and things like that, that isn't a life worthy of the Gospel that we're going to represent. Any person that'll break up a church, and start a feud between the people, and things like that, is not worthy of the Gospel that we preach. Exactly. "It's a form of godliness, denying the power thereof," the power of God that keeps you from such.

L-197   Notice, now, they don't do it. They just won't do it. They have the excuse, that, their church don't believe in It. They...
Well, but, Jesus would say--say to a man, tonight, speak to his heart and say, "I want you to go, preach the full Gospel."
"My church doesn't stand for It, Lord. You excuse me, if You will. I've got a fine charge. I--I--I, You know, I'm a pastor, one of the greatest churches in this city, Lord. Oh, we praise Your Name down there! Yes, sir. We sure do. I can't do it." The same excuse, same thing. So they don't come to the spiritual feast of His promised, vindicated Word.

L-198 Did not Jesus say, "Where the carcass is, the eagles will gather"? "Eagles," not buzzards, now. Eagles! Where the slop is, and the--and the--the carrion, then the buzzards gather. But where the fresh, clean Meat is, the eagles will gather. See? Certainly. Where the Word, eagle Food, they'll gather.


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