<TITLE>14. Par 133-145</TITLE>L-133   Look, and let me say one thing again, as this. You know, if you dress like that, and some sinner on the street looks at you in the wrong way, you're going to answer at the Day of Judgment for committing adultery with that sinner. You might be as virtuous to your husband as you can be, you might be as virtuous to your boy friend, as loyal as you know how to be, but in the sight of God you're a street harlot.

L-134 You say, "Is that right? Prove that by the Word, Brother Branham. You said ask you anything, if it was the Word." Yes, sir.

L-135 Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart." And if you present yourself like that, you're a cause of it. That's exactly. Though you be innocent in yourself, you presented yourself to that sinner like that. When he answers for it, you will be the one to be guilty. Oh, get you some clothes and cover up, and act like ladies. That's right.

L-136   And you men, you that will let your wives do a thing like that, wear them kind of clothes, don't you have no respect for you or her, either one? My, let your wife sit and smoke cigarettes in the house, and blow it! What are you? And then call yourself a Christian? Oh, I can't understand that.

L-137 You say, "Well, now wait a minute, 'By their fruits you shall know them.'" That's what I'm talking about, see. That's right, if you love the Lord with all your heart!

L-138 You say, "Well, I've just got to smoke them. That's my pleasure." Your pleasure?

L-139 My pleasure is in the Lord. Your pleasure is in the Lord, if you would die out to the world. God is my joy. He is my peace. He is my sacrifice. He is my God. He is my love. He is all, and all that I have need of, and I meet it in Christ. Thirsting! Oh, my!

L-140   [A sister speaks in another tongue. Brother Branham pauses--Ed.] Be reverent. We're supposed to wait on them things, you know. When the Spirit speaks, breaks into a message and speaks like that, there must be something important fixing to happen, see. [Pause. A sister gives an interpretation.] Amen. Amen. And the people said, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."] See? See?

L-141 Now, remember, if I got the interpretation right, we are to warn the people, see, the Coming of the Lord. And let's warn them, with the right kind of a life behind it. Cause, you can't talk to men, living any way, and then go tell him. He knows he is living as well as you are, see. Let's get right and get ready, because I believe the Holy Spirit wants us to know these things and to be ready for this great thing that's fixing to happen. Yes. Yes, sir.

L-142 The hour, the world is now falling apart. All systems are falling apart. Why is it? It's--it's got to come that way, see. It's, "We are looking for a City Whose Builder and Maker is God," and all these earthly things has to give away, to It.

L-143   Now we find out that God promised to supply all of our needs we had need of, in this journey. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] But, remember, He only supplies it on conditions. We've got to meet His condition, first. If we do not meet His condition, He will not meet--meet our condition. We've got to do the thing that's right, first, got to go down to the bottom and build up. That's exactly. We can't start at the top and come down. We got to go to the bottom and build up. Go back to the bottom. Now, He'll meet our condition. All of His promises are on condition.

L-144 But we try to reverse This, by our traditions. We try to make God something else. "We are going to inject our tradition and say it's just a little better," or that's the way the people try to think it.

L-145 Now I'm not just speaking to this church right here, this group of people. I'm speaking to the world. It's being taped here and will go all around the world, what we say.


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