<TITLE>02. Par 8-18</TITLE>L-8   Like the old toboggan slide used to be. Many of you don't remember it, 'cause you're too young. Used to have entertainment for the children; you set down on your toboggan and just move around, around. There was a hole, a shoot, and everyone would dare one another, who could go the closest to it. And after a while, before you knew it, [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] down you went.

L-9 That's the way sin is. Don't trifle with it. Don't see how close you can get to it. See how far you can stay away from it. See? Don't take no chance. If you're going to take a chance... I don't want no chance.

L-10   An old Scotchman, one time, they said, was going to cross a mountain. And the carriages was waiting, each man wanted take him across. He said, "I want the best teamster to take me."

L-11 One of them said, "Well, I can drive my six head of horses at a full gallop within--within ten inches of that rim around that mountain." Fall off, it's death. Said, "I'm a good enough teamster to drive my horses, safety, around there, within ten inches of my wheels, and not fall off."

L-12 The other one said, "I can beat that. I can drive within six inches, or four inches, and never fall off."
He said, "What about you, sir?"

L-13 Said, "Well, I don't know. I don't like to do that. I--I just hug the bank."
He said, "You take me." That's right. That's the one.

L-14   It isn't how close you can come, and how well you think you are fortified, stay just as far away from sin as you can stay. Just get just as far away as you can. Say, "Well, I can do this. There is no harm in doing this." Well, if there is a question in your mind, don't you do it at all. Anywhere there's a question, stay away from it. Then, you see, then you're absolutely living by faith, if there's no question. If there's a question, then leave it, don't go around it at all.

L-15   And I think that many times that it's the parents that get away. I know there is sometimes that the--the schools, and things. And Sunday school about a half hour, or hour on Sunday morning, and the world has the kids the rest of the week, and cram into them more than a teacher. And many times, too many times, the teacher has got a little quarterly that she teaches about, while she paints her lips and fixes her hair, let the children do the best they can.

L-16 And then at home they get no Christian training at all. Mother is out somewhere to a card party, and dad is down at the bowling alley, and--and sis is out with somebody with a hot rod. And here you are, see. What, where do we--where do we go? You just, it's just it's... It's terrible. And then we find out that all these things together. Junior out, beating up-and-down the street, on his motorcycle. And, oh, it's some of them down playing golf, and others playing pool, and it's just something another for entertainment. And the church is let go.

L-17   Many times, then they got a board there; if that pastor would happen to hit a little wire that was--was kind of a little contrary, or say something about it, that board would have him up, his name would go up to headquarters and he would be excommunicated. So, you see, it's become a meal ticket, in the stead of anointed servant to preach the Gospel. See? That's right. It becomes a thing that they want to. It's--it's a meal ticket. They've got to stay there, get good pay. Listen, brother, God have mercy upon a man that would sell his birthrights for that. Listen!

L-18 We need man that will handle the Gospel, bare-handed, not with any kind of a denominational glove on. Just lay it out there the way it's wrote, and--and let the chips fall wherever they want to. "If the shoe fits," mama used to say, "wear it." Said, "Don't trim your corn." Now, so we have those things that we ought to be listening to.


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