<TITLE>06. Par 41-51</TITLE>L-41   And now we find that, many times, ministers gets to feeling just a little secure, and they keep leading out, and, the first thing you know, they'll do things that they should not do. And we know that, many times, righteous and good man will get so that they'll have too many social affairs, just they want to go out to big parties, and, the first thing you know, they'll call for a little drink, once in a while, and they get entangled with the world. And I think that's what's the matter with our churches today. I think that's what's the matter with our Pentecostal move.

L-42 Now let me state this first, clearly. See? You hear me say things about the Pentecostal church. And I am pentecostal. See? But, here, what if there was no pentecostal people in New York, tonight, where would I go to preach this Message to? See? I appreciate the Pentecostal people. They're my brothers and sisters.

L-43 But yet when I see something wrong with my brother, my child, or be my wife, or whatever it was, right is right. A correct parent will correct their children.

L-44   And I think that the trouble with our church, we try to get too much like the--the others. See? We try to act like somebody else, you see, and--and we begin to take on their habits. And the first thing you know, it used to be...

L-45 I don't remember the Pentecostal people in their beginning, of course, they been many years ago, in this last move from Azusa Street, but I took the history of it. And I--I've read many books, and talked to some of the old men. Fixing to have a meeting right now with one at Shreveport, Louisiana, he'll be there, was one of the first men in Azusa Street. And then that's the beginning of pentecost in this country, about fifty-something years ago, I suppose. I preached the golden jubilee at the McPherson temple, Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, a few years ago, the golden jubilee of the fiftieth year of pentecost, now, you see.

L-46   But since then, there has been so many little things creep into the church, because the church has to rub shoulders with the world each day. Now, and I don't mean to--to come back to this again, to--to our sisters, see, our brothers. Many times, it used to be years ago, that it was wrong (for as I said the other night) for our sisters to cut their, hair. It used to be a--a Pentecostal affair, that they shouldn't do that and those things. But what is it? Now we go into the different parts of the country, and we find our Pentecostal sisters with those water-head haircuts, you know, them big haircuts like that. And you can tell them about it. And they use make-up. They--they wear clothes like man.

L-47 And you say, "Now, Brother Branham, you're picking on the women."

L-48   Now wait a minute, let me pick on the men. The--the brother that will let his wife do that, he's not a much ruler over his house. See? See? See?

L-49 You shouldn't do that. But what is it? We've rubbed shoulders with the rest of them, some little weakling come in from some seminary or school, and have a different idea of it. But there is only one perfect example, that's, right back to the Bible. The Bible condemns that, see. And it's not right.

L-50   And then we find other things. It used to be it was wrong for the holiness people to attend bioscopes or movies, you know. Now they go all the time. See? And then Satan pulled a fast one on you, put the television right in your house, and, see, fixed it in there. But all these things, that it used to be wrong.

L-51 Well, what is it? See, it comes in so gradual until, the first thing you know, it's just got you. It's like a vine growing around you. Now, if you will keep that vine away from you, see, and just keep wrapped around Jesus, around the Word and stay with That, see, you'll grow straight. That's crooked and it pulls you off the road. Christ pulls you up. That pulls you sideways.


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