<TITLE>05. Par 38-46</TITLE>L-38 That's what's the matter with our Pentecostal people. While, back yonder, a long time ago, when we had little missions down on the corner somewhere, and the women with no stockings on and beating a tambourine down there, had to pray all night, and everything; cops locked you up, and stayed in jail, and so forth. You prayed. The churches, all the denominations, laughed at you and made fun of you. But now God has lifted you up, till you got some of the best churches in the country, a great powerful denominations, you begin to feel secure. Be careful, that's when you get lifted up. Then, when God sends Something, you can't accept It, anymore, because you've already witnessed to this thing. Then you begin to feel secured, that's the time that you're on your road to your fall. That's for denominations. That's for nations.

L-39   Look at our nation, once one of the great moral countries of the world. Look at her today, it's the laughingstock of the world, filthier than anything I know of.

L-40 When I got off the plane, and come in at Rome, and went up to Saint Angelo, to go into the catacomb, I was embarrassed when I seen a sign setting at the--the Saint Angelo catacomb, said, "A word to all American women! Please put on clothes before entering the catacomb, to honor the dead." Coming in there with shorts on, and trousers on, in a place like Rome; and then had to say, to the American women, "to honor the dead; and put on clothes." Why, it's become a stench in the nostrils! And all of our overseas money, and leased loans, and everything like that, will never buy friendship.

L-41   What we need in this nation, and we'll never have it, but what we need is a--a housecleaning time; not a political housecleaning, but a Holy-Ghost-sent revival that'll sweep her from tip to toe. That's what our churches needs. That's what our people needs. That's what, as individuals, we need. That our influence... When we get lifted up and say, "I'm Pentecostal. I spoke with tongues. I shouted. I danced in the Spirit." You might have done that, but let me tell you something, brother, that's no security to you, not a bit.

L-42   We find out when Uzziah got lifted up in his heart, we find out that God smote him. What did he do? He tried so much to try to take a minister's place. He thought because he got lifted up, God had blessed him, made him a great man, he could just do anything he wanted to.

L-43 I heard a young man tell me not long ago, he said, "You know, God loves me so much, Brother Branham, He just lets me do anything I want to. He don't care."

L-44   I hear so much today about God being a good God. He is. I'm not disputing that. He is a good God. But He is also a God of wrath. His Holiness requires righteousness. His law requires judgment. If there is no judgment to law, law is of non-effect. What good would it do to say, "It's against the law to run this redlight down here," without being a penalty behind it? See, it would be no law. They couldn't do nothing about it; there isn't a penalty. There is a penalty for transgressing God's laws, and, it will, you'll have to pay to the utmost farthings before you're brought out.

L-45   Now many man today makes that sad mistake like this fellow did, when he got exalted, got big, got so he had everything in his own hands, he felt secure, "God loves me so much, till there is nothing can bother me now." When he did that, he throwed hisself in the same shape that Nebuchadnezzar did one time, as you Bible readers know. Then we find out that he was smitten with leprosy because he tried to take a minister's place.

L-46   Not long ago, I speak international for the Full Gospel Business Men. Sometime ago, I was sitting in a place, it was over in Jamaica, we was having a meeting.


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