<TITLE>11. Par 77-89</TITLE>L-77   Now we find out that Samson prayed right, "Lord, let me die with the enemy," die to the enemy that had got him in that way. If there is anything that people ought to pray for, tonight! And we see the thing that's done this, is getting away from the Bible, to a creed. Then, die with the thing, get out of it! Die to it. Samson was willing to pay the price to get the Power of God back again. There is a price to be paid for It, but, today, the people don't seem to do it.

L-78 Oh, we hear revival, sure. Yes, we have a denominational revival, get more members in, and things like that. But look at the morals, it's constantly decaying. Look how further and further away from God they're getting all the time, getting away from the Word. And now when they go in and come into the Council of Churches, why, they've accepted the biggest killer that the church word has got. The Word that God left to them, they bypass all of That. You can't teach that Bible; you've got to teach their creed. There it is.

L-79   Samson knew one thing, and I wonder if the church realizes today. He knew that his backslidden condition couldn't meet the challenge of the hour. And I know, today, that the backslidden condition of the church can't meet the challenge of this hour. And it's going to be worse. The Bible said, "As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will they; men of reprobate mind, concerning the Faith." They can almost impersonate It exactly.

L-80 Moses went down with his command from God, with a stick in his hand. And God said, "Do this sign before them. And if they won't listen to that, then do this sign before them. And if they won't listen to that, then I'll be with you, I'll take care of the rest of it."

L-81 Well, Moses went down with his first sign. And, as soon as he performed his first sign, there was impersonators everywhere, doing the same thing. But Moses never fussed about it. He just stood still, for he knew that it was God that sent him. We're going to have that repeat again in the last days, remember. See?

L-82   And our backslidden state now will not meet the challenge of the hour, yet all the big frame is here. There is more Pentecostals in the world today than there ever was, that we know of, more Pentecostal believers. That's right.

L-83 You know, The Sunday Visitor, the Catholic paper, Sunday paper called The Sunday Visitor, I believe about two years ago, made some kind of a statement like this. He said, "The fastest growing church in the world is the Pentecostals." Said, "Last year, the Catholic church recorded a million conversions, to Catholicism." But said the... That's all Catholicism. But said, "The Pentecostal church alone, in itself, recorded one million, five hundred thousand."

L-84 Now the frame is there, but we don't have the power we had when we were a handful. All of Samson's big bulk stood there, but where was the Power of the Lord? Yes, the denominational system don't vindicate the Word of the Lord. That's right. Now notice.

L-85   I was talking to a priest that lives out the lane from me, the Sacred Heart church.

L-86 About a month ago, since this new issue has come on, the Lutheran preacher had the priest of the Catholic church, Sacred Heart church, up to preach in his pulpit for him. And the--the Catholic priest had the Lutheran minister down to say mass for him. "Swapping pulpit," big piece in the paper. Yeah. Sure. Oh, my, if anybody could see that and not... If you can't understand that, well, you're--you're--you're certainly Scripturally blind. See? Yes.

L-87   I talked to this priest. And he said to me, he said, "I want to talk to you, Mister Branham."
I said, "All right."

L-88 And he said, "Did you baptize this Frazier girl, by the name of Mary Elisabeth Frazier?"
I said, "Yes, sir, I did."
He said, "The bishop wants your signed statement about it."
I said, "I understand that--that she turned Catholic."

L-89 And he said, "Yes," said, "she come back to the mother church."


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