<TITLE>26. Par 181-189</TITLE>L-181   And know, it's not... Now, you women, I don't want to hurt your feelings when I tell you them things. But if your pastor don't tell you That, there's something wrong with him. He ain't--he ain't got the audacity to do it. He's hiding behind an organization. Or he's like Lot, sitting down, before the fire fell, he--he just didn't have the real--the real stuff it take to stand out there. He... The Bible said that, "The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul daily." His soul knowed better, but he didn't have the real thing it taken to stand out there and condemn it. And a pastor that won't tell a women it's wrong to cut her hair, there's something wrong with that man, and to wear these clothes.

L-182   And you men, you men that'll let your women do such things as that, what's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? Lead your wife around through town as like a public prostitute, and then slap some man in the mouth if he'd insult her. You're the one needs slapping in the mouth. That's right, and God will do it someday, too. That's right. We need to get back to this Word.

L-183 Not only that, that's just a little, little thing. But how you going to get the big things if you refuse the little ones? How can you learn algebra if you don't know ABC? You can't count to ten, how you going to know your mathematics? You've got to start from the bottom. You're trying to begin at the top, come down here and get started right.

L-184 This is the time to do it, now, Christmas. It was the birth of Christ, let Christ be born in us. What is Christ? Christ is the Word. How many knows that? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

L-185   Somebody said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, you, people know that you're a woman-hater." I am not. I'm not. I got genuine love for my sisters. Some men will turn around, think you look nice with red eyes and green eyes, and bobbed hair, that man has got a different opinion than what I'd have. Your... I love that soul that's in you, that's got to meet God. That's what I'm... my sister for Eternity, not some little sex thing here on earth will...

L-186   How many ever read the decline, of the fall of Rome? Sure. Look at there, just the same thing we're doing, sex appeal. Youth in the condition it is, just exactly the way we got now, racial problems. And youth taking over, and man and sex. Just the way the Roman Empire fell, eighteen hundred years ago, and here it is right back here again amongst Gentiles. See? The confusion amongst the religions and things. Oh, what an hour that we're living in!

L-187 [A sister gives a message. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Amen. The Lord God has spoke. I believe that.

L-188   Now let us stand. When He speaks, it's time for us to give reverence. [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] What say?
By God's grace, and by God's help, I'm more determined than I ever was, stand by this Word and try my best, by the help of God, to cut a way down to Bethlehem again, where Bethlehem dwellers can drink from that Fountain. How many will join with me, with your hands up, say, "I promise to God I'll do it"? God bless you.

L-189 Now bow your heads just a moment, and I believe some brother here, Brother Jeffries, come here. He's going to dismiss the audience while we bow our heads in prayer, if you will. All right, brother.

