<TITLE>16. Par 146-155</TITLE>L-146   God don't have no grandchildren. They come in. The old pentecostal father and mother, under an experience, brought you in; and you just come into the church and sit there, and automatically you was a pentecostal? He don't have grandchildren. He only has sons and daughters. There is no grandchildren. You have to pay the same price and get the same Holy Ghost that they did. You've got to be a son and daughter, not a grandson and granddaughter. He is not an old dote grandfather, soft, and lets his kids get by with anything, bless their little hearts. He is God, the Eternal One! That's right, sons and daughters!

L-147   We still got the big bulk like Samson had. He stood there with all of his power. He stood there just as big as he ever was. And we stand bigger than we were, but we're stripped of power. Samson still had the brawny muscles, he still had every physical part he had, but the Spirit of the Lord didn't come on him no more. We stand, million strong, stronger than we were, but where is the Lord. As the Angel said back there in the days of Gideon, he said, "If where and if there is still God, where is His miracles? Where is the things that He is supposed to do? Where is He proving Himself, that He is alive, and the same yesterday, today, and forever?" That's what we get.

L-148   Notice, Samson prayed right. Samson prayed, "Lord, let me die with the enemy," when he realized what was happening around him. His eyes were gone. His strength was gone. His fellowship was gone. But there was a possibility that a prayer meeting might spark it again. See? Then he prayed right, "Let me die with the enemy."

L-149 You must die with your enemy. That's right. You must die to the enemy that's got you in this condition. That's right.

L-150 Samson was willing to pay the price to get the power of God back on him again. He seen what he was raised up to do. Not be a showman; but to be a servant, to have hisself so that the power of God could flow through him.

L-151   We stand, millions stronger than we were, but the power... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... purpose.

L-152 Jesus even said, "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." All this you see walking on the street is cannon fodder. That's atomic fodder, only laid in there for judgment. The Rapture comes, there will be a scarce few. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and, but few they will be that find it; for broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. Not all that saith unto Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter therein, but the one that doeth the will of My Father." That's the one that goes in, see; not saying "Lord," and their fine prayers, and--and revivals, and so forth.

L-153   Oh, I hear somebody say, "Now wait a minute, Brother Branham, we have revivals." Yep. That's right. That's right. We have revivals, and what do we have? It's a denomination revival, see if we can get some more in the church.

L-154 And we're having another great revival, too, we're taking all the churches into one, the Council of Churches. Yeah, getting farther and farther away from God's Word, all the time. Uniting! "How can two walk together except they be agreed?" How we going to walk with people who deny the very resurrection of Christ? How can we walk with people who said, "The days of miracles is passed"?

L-155 You are a separated people, by the Holy Ghost. See? The world wants, today, the--the--the... What the world is wanting today is mixers. They want somebody who can walk around and--and fellowship with the world and fellowship with the people, and get a lot of members, and have a social organization. But when the Holy Ghost said, "Separate Me Paul!" God is a separator, not a mixer. A separator!


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