<TITLE>32. Par 310-317</TITLE>L-310 But she denies the Word. To make Matthew 24:24 real to her, she tries to move in with a lot of noise, and a lot of this, and a lot of social standings, and things like this, trying to say, "Well, we got power! Glory to God, hallelujah, we got power!" Having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof, so close that it would deceive the very elected... How can a man dance in the Spirit and speak in tongues, and deny the Word of God being the Truth, and be the Holy Ghost? It just can't be done.

L-311 "Every Word!" God says one thing, that's just exactly what He means. Don't interpret It no other way. The Bible says, that, "It's of no private interpretations." Say it the way He said It.

L-312   Notice, a false power. That's exactly what Satan wanted to give to Jesus, get up there and make Him show Hisself off. People do that, even the World Council, all of them. "Who is able to make war with him," he said, the Bible, "this image of the beast that's going to rise?" If we had time, we'd go in (but we haven't) to it. Notice Jesus, the second Word Adam, in her day, watch in the days of this church now that's going to be so close. The last church age is Laodicea. How many can say "amen" to that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] What does she do? How does she go in the glorious stage? Lukewarm, without God. And what did she do?

L-313   Now, Adam seen Eve willfully... or not willfully, but ignorantly deceived, and Adam walked out with Eve so he could redeem her. Is that right? The Bible said, "Adam wasn't deceived." That's the reason It forbids women to preach the Gospel. See? Adam was not in the transgression, yet Eve was. So that's the reason she shouldn't teach, see, or usurp any authority over man, or so forth. That's--that's what the Word says.

L-314 You say, "Well, this!" I don't care what this does and that does. It's what the Word says, brother, sister. I'm trying to get that to you, see, it's what the Word says. We live by the Word, not what some evidence, or some carnal something, or some experience. That don't have one thing to do with it. Any kind of an experience won't work, if it denies the Word. "Many will come to Me and say, 'I've prophesied, casted out devils. I spoke in tongues. I done all these things, preached the Gospel, and a Doctor of Divinity.' Said, 'You worker of iniquity, I didn't even know you.'" Knowing that the Word says That, and then compromise because of some organization or something, some system. Oh, my friend, let me warn you, as a dear brother that loves you. Listen closely.

L-315   Now, the first Adam walked out with Eve, because she was deceived. But, there had been somebody here in this Laodicea, she knowed different. Yes, sir. Because she put Him out of her bed, her room, sh-... He was on the outside, knocking, trying to get back in. Yet she had gotten culture, she was set high. She was, oh, my, "had need of nothing," she said, but didn't know that she was naked, miserable. That's the church that deceives the very elected if it was possible. Notice, she had power, false power. She took part of the Word, didn't take the rest of It.

L-316   What is the biggest lie that was ever told? It's got ninety-nine percent Truth in it. If somebody said "William Branham, on this certain date, was up yonder in Houston, Texas, drunk as he could be." That's a lie. See? "Oh," say, "no, he was in Phoenix, Arizona. He was preaching to Christian businessmen, he preached on a certain subject, so many people was there, they listened till about ten-thirty. And, at ten-thirty, you know what he done? Reached down and got a drink of liquor, and took it." Now there is a lie. The rest of it was all true. See, it has to look just exactly like the truth, to be deceiving.

L-317 That's how the people does today. They have so much of the Truth, they deceive the very elected... But, one Word, that's all it takes. And I've proved that by the Bible.


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