<TITLE>14. Par 172-186</TITLE>L-172 They still got goods and sewing machines. There is no excuse. The Amish and Dunkard women still wear them. Sure. [Congregation applauds--Ed.]
And what happens? They get out there and carry on.

L-173 A woman said, "Well, Mister Branham, I don't wear shorts. I wear s-..." What is them, pedal pu-... [A brother says, "Pedal pushers."--Ed.] Yeah. Said, "I wear them."

L-174 I said, "That's worse." I said, "The Bible says, 'It's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment pertains to a man.'" And what kind of a filthy-looking sight is this United States now! See? That's right.

L-175 Let me tell you something, sister. You might be as pure as a lily, to your husband or your boyfriend, but in the Day of the Judgment you're going to answer for committing adultery. Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already." If that sinner looked upon you, and she has to answer at the Day of Judgment. You presented yourself to him. Suit yourself. Uh-huh.

L-176 Why would a godly woman want to dress like that for? Then you claim to have the Holy Ghost because you spoke in tongues and run up-and-down the floor? That, though, I seen heathens do that, Hottentots. The Holy Ghost is purity, holy, undefiled. Certainly.

L-177   This man said, "If you're... They believe you to be a prophet. Why don't you teach them how to receive great spiritual gifts, and how to do things for God? Why don't you teach them that if you're a prophet?"

L-178 I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they won't even learn their ABC's?" You know what ABC means? Always believe Christ. Uh-huh. How you going to do that? See, you want to get way up there, instead starting down here.

L-179   God will build His Church upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, and that's the Bible. Outside of that, all other grounds is sinking sands. God doesn't change. His nature doesn't change.

L-180   He made women different from man, and man different from women. He dressed them different, and wants them to stay that way. See? Women wants to look like man, and man wants to look like women. Oh, my! Such a perversion! It's... And the whole thing, look like it's got a grip on the people, and you can't change it. Looks like a great monster, a great blackness; if you understand what I'm speaking of, in the spirit. A monster has got them grabbed, and they--they just can't get away from it; too much Hollywood, too much television, too much other nonsense. Everything we got is polluted. No wonder, "If the work isn't cut short, for the Elected sake, there will be no flesh saved."

L-181 You said, "I never knowed that before." Well, now you know it, from now on. See? That's... I better stop that. Let's go back. Notice.

L-182   John was a sign. And remember that, the way God did it the first time, that's the way He'll do it again. He promised to. Now, God never did use a group of people, at any time, for such.

L-183 Remember, there was a group one time, that, a great man named Ahab, he got him a... he got him four hundred Israelite prophets. Now, them wasn't heathen prophets. Four hundred Israelite prophets. They all had their degree and everything, had a big school.

L-184 There was a godly man named Jehoshaphat, who was king of Judah, and he come down. And there is where a believer got mixed up with an unbeliever. Things went wrong.

L-185 And he said, "Ramoth-Gilead." Now watch this, how true it can be. He said, "Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, up there. Up in the part of the country up there, that's ours." Joshua, in dividing up the lands, give that to Israel. And the Philistines, heathens, come over and took it away from them. He said, "That belongs to us."

L-186 Now watch how, fundamentally, people can be right and yet miss It. The thing actually did belong to Israel. But all of God's promises, brother, is on conditions, see, "If they walk before the Lord."


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