<TITLE>10. Par 95-109</TITLE>L-95   And then ninety-five percent of those people go to church, have their name on the book, claim to be Christians. Man claim to be Christians, that smoke, and drink, and gamble, and tell dirty jokes. Many deacons on the board, with one, two, and three, and four wives. That's true. What a disgrace! Women sing in the choir, with bobbed hair. The Bible said, "She's an unhonorable person." Paint on their face! There was only one woman ever painted her face, in the Bible, that was Jezebel. God fed her to the dogs, so you see what He thinks about it. And then you come tell them about it; next year, come back, they're worse than they was in the first place. Irreverent, they have no respects, no--no thoughts of decency.

L-96   Let me tell you something, women, young women, and old, too; go out here with these dresses on, these little old tight clothes, and shorts. You say, "You oughtn't to be talking like that, Brother Branham." I should. That's my duty. This is a--this is a pulpit.

L-97 I had a man call me in, not long ago, one of the greatest Pentecostal evangelists in the land. He said, "You leave them people alone."
I said, "Who are you to tell me to leave them alone?"

L-98 He said, "I love you." And he said, "Your ministry is praying for the sick."
I said, "It's preaching the Gospel, brother."

L-99 And he said, "Look, Brother Branham," said, "why, them people believe you to be a prophet."
I said, "I never said I was, did I?"

L-100 He said, "But they believe you to be. Why don't you teach them women how to receive the Holy Ghost, and how to receive gifts and do something, instead of always bawling them out about the way they're dressing and what they're doing? Why don't you teach them them kind of things, to help it?"

L-101 I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they won't even learn their ABC's?" You know what ABC is? Always believe Christ. That's right.

L-102   Now, now how can you do it, how can you do it? It looks like there is a pressure on them, something won't let them do it. It makes it a modern Sodom. That's the hour that we're standing in, that awful things that's going on in the land today.
And he said, "Well, look..."

L-103 I said, "No, I don't have no programs to sponsor. I don't have no church to put me out. No, sir." And I said...
He said, "That's the pastor's duty, to do that."
I said, "But they're not doing it."

L-104 Then, it's up to somebody, some voice has got to cry out against it, because it's wrong. Certainly it's wrong. Reverence, respect It.

L-105   A young lady said to me one time, she said, "Mr. Branham, they don't make no other clothes but this."

L-106 I said, "They still sell goods, and they have sewing machines." That's right.

L-107 Let me tell you something, lady. You might be just as clean and virtue as you can be. You might be as honorable to your husband, your boyfriend, as you can be. But one of these days, at the Judgment Bar, you're going to answer for committing adultery.
"If I'm not guilty?"

L-108 You're guilty! Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." And when that sinner that looked at you like that, and had them thoughts about you, he is going to have to answer for, at the Day of the Judgment. And why did he do it? You presented yourself to him, twisted up in some kind of clothes and things like that. Right. It's a shame. You're going to have to do it, lady.

L-109   And you man that call yourselves Christians, that ought to rule your house, and let your women do that, repent or your whole house will perish!


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