<TITLE>29. Par 195-201</TITLE>L-195   It would lower the prestige of the people. Yes, they--they think... And the denominational council wouldn't stand... Like--like Pilate passing It to Caesar; they wouldn't stand for It. Caesar put It back in Pilate's hand. So they try to pass Him on to their--to their denominational heads, and it don't work. This trick has never worked, and it won't work. It didn't work for Pilate; won't work for you; it won't work for nobody else. Now, secondly, the thing you can do is...

L-196   Thirdly, rather, is to accept Him or reject Him. You can't wash Him off your hands. You can't pass Him on to some other system, or some other something else. You've got to face the issue. So what can you do?
Like Pilate, stood with the same thing, he said, "Give me some water, I'll wash It off my hands, to prove!" When he returned back, he still had to pass the judgment; didn't excuse him. He tried to say, "Well, I, if I can't get Him off my hands, I'll put Him on Caesar's hands." And It backfired, right back to him.

L-197 It does to you, too, as an individual. What are you going to do? Not what mother did, what papa did, what the pastor does, what Brother Branham does, what any; It's on your hands! What are you going to do about It, with this Jesus called Christ? Cause, you got Blood on your hands, and It's the Blood of God. Now what are you going to do? Be guilty of the crucifixion. See?

L-198 You can crucify Him, accept your creed or whatever you want to, or say, "Well, I'll just pass on off. I won't have nothing to do with none of this church stuff." You can't do that. He's on your hands. That's right. You can't do it. "I'll just forget the whole thing." You can't do it. It's still on your hands. "Well, I'll just say, 'My pastor taught me this.'" It backfires, right back. It's to you. You know. Now, you can either receive Him or you can reject Him, just either way you want to do it. What? It has to come to one of them.

L-199   Now what? As Jesus said to these Pharisees, He said, "As you're the blind Pharisees," see, Who would say it the same thing today, "you blind religious teachers, you can discern the time of communism. You're so fighting that, and know that God raised the very thing up to destroy you." See, not knowing the Scriptures. See? "You, you can discern that communism is going to take the world. You can see that. You can discern that."

L-200 All of our subjects is on communism. "Beat communism out!" I hear it till I get sick of listening at it. I'm against it, too. Certainly, I'm against it. But I'm more against the man or the woman that rejects Jesus Christ, the Word. Or, whether you be a preacher or whatever you are, you're a more indebtment to the Christ than that communist is. He is ignorant and knows nothing about It. You are supposed to know. See? You can discern the time of communism, but you can't discern the sign of the day you're living in.

L-201   Jesus told them Pharisees, said, "You hypocrites!" Said, "You go out and look at the skies, and say the sun is red and lowering, tomorrow will be foul. If the sky clear," said, "you say tomorrow will be a clear day." Said, "You can discern the signs of the time, or the signs of the skies and the weather, but the signs of the time you don't know." There He was, the Messiah, and rejecting It.
And we always talking about communism and some of this stuff, but, the sign of the time, we don't get It. See? We overlook that, omit that. Uniting together right now in unbelief, and they receive it, but fail to understand and see the sign of the time that the Bible said would be.
Have you got It? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Have to close, real quick now. It's getting late, see.


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