<TITLE>09. Par 74-84</TITLE>L-74   We've went off on great big opportunities that--that the revival has presented. We've went off on opportunities of making a lot of money, the churches, building greater buildings, great big millions-of-dollar places, great schools, educational systems, and making our denominational grow. And then having our communism programs, anticommunism, that's all we can talk about today. And the first thing you know, Satan has seen us on our anticommunism programs, on our big denominational programs, and on our "million more," and so forth, as they've got.

L-75 And we've gone off without the old-time prayer meetings and the baptism of the Holy Ghost coming back, until the fire has burnt low. You can cry out, and try to get people to the altar, and they just walk up like they were almost dead, a dread to come. And then ask ministers to come pray with them, "Oh, why did he ask me for?" And they get down there, and you can't hardly get them. And they'll stand there just for a few minutes, look up at you, and go back and sit down in their seats. To me, the fire has gone out! Something has happened. Listen! What we need is a revival, that sinners, looking upon Christ, repent, run to the altar with their hands up, screaming for mercy, and the whole church is a flame of fire, with the glory of God.

L-76   Our enthusiasm for opportunity to make our denominations grow, we've built bigger schools to educate our ministers, and send them farther from God than they was at the beginning. God is not known by education. He is not known by theology. God is knowed by faith. You can't explain God. He is beyond explaining.

L-77 Look what it's done, we Pentecostal people that used to be pentecost. Our women has bobbed off their hair; wearing makeup. Our men is permitting it. Our ministers are permitting it. They're afraid to say something about it. The church will turn them out if they do. Oh, if we don't need a housecleaning, from the pulpit plumb to the basement. It's a shame. It's a disgrace.

L-78   Some man come to me, not long ago, and said, "Brother Branham, the people love you." But said, "You're always bawling them out, bawling them women out, about having short hair and things like that."
I said, "The Bible said it was a disgrace for her to have it."

L-79 She dishonors her husband when she does it. And it is absolutely a sign that you've departed from God. Remember, in Samson's case, long hair was a Nazarite sign that he had departed from the world, to the Word of God. And when you bob off your hair, women, you deny you're the Nazarite sign. You've went to Hollywood instead of back to the Bible. The Bible said, "Let them be unshaved." See, it's a shame, and the ministers don't say nothing about it.

L-80   This man said to me, "Why don't you leave them women alone?" Said, "They regard you as a prophet."
I said, "I never said I was a prophet."

L-81 Said, "They regard you as that. Teach them how to receive spiritual gifts and do something. You ought to teach them big things, great things."

L-82 I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they won't even learn their ABC's, how to live decent about it? How you going to do it? Yeah, go down to the first thing."

L-83 Year after year, crossing the nation, and it gets worse all the time. There is something wrong somewhere, it ain't with the Word. No wonder we can't have revival fires burning. We need a housecleaning time. God will never do that till we come back again. We need a housecleaning time.

L-84   And you man, you will let your wife do a thing like that, wear shorts! Them ain't Methodists, Baptists. That's Pentecostals, that's right, "form of godliness, Laodicea Church Age, lukewarm," Pentecost by name, that's all. Pentecost is not a name, it's an experience of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that cleans the people up. No wonder we can't have great healing services and things, there is something went wrong somewhere. It's Satan, saw us out trying to...


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