<TITLE>06. Par 45-54</TITLE>L-45 And no disregards to every effort that any servant of God, that even names the Name of Jesus Christ. He ought to be honored for just even naming His Name in reverence and respect. And the great evangelistical systems that's crossed the earth, and so forth, in these last days, I think, still we'll never be able to get people in one heart until we get them underneath the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's the only place that we'll ever be safely.

L-46   Someone called me not long ago, from up in the East, and said, "Brother Branham, I hear you've moved out to--to Arizona, and you formed a--a place there where that there is safety." And as you know how the Message come, and the Lord told me what would happen in Alaska, and how down through California it would be, and it's just been that way. They said, "Now if that's shaking, and everything, where is the safety zone?"

L-47 I said, "There is one safety zone that I know of. That's in Christ. "For those that are in Christ, will..." It's the only one I know.

L-48   Now Jeremiah was called, also, "the weeping prophet." And because, I believe, that made this prophet weep--weep, rather, was because him being a prophet (and the Word of the Lord comes to such) and seeing the people walk after their traditions, and thought they were all right, and no way at all to turn them.

L-49 For, they was going straight to exile, because we know you reap what you sow, regardless of who you are, what you are. And we as a nation have reaped... or sowed, rather, and we've got to reap. I'm speaking tomorrow, the Lord willing, at afternoon, on Birth Pains; and I--and I touch that in there, that we cannot get by with nothing. We've got to reap what we sow.

L-50 And if God would let us get by with our perversion of Christianity today, and perverting the people into these things that's so-called Christianity, as Brother Moore once said, "He would be morally obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize for burning them up." That's right, because God is still just. And where unjustice has got; it's--it's becoming to His holiness and His Word that He makes people reap for what they sow, and we'll have to do that.

L-51   Now notice they had left Him, the Fountain of living waters, and had hewed themselves cisterns.

L-52 Now there may be somebody here who wouldn't understand what a cistern is. A cistern is a man-made tank that tries to take the place of a well. It's something that somebody dug. And how many knows what a cistern is? Fine. All right, a lot of country people here this morning. So they... I remember the old cistern at the place, how it looked, and I was always afraid to drink from the thing. It was a--a man-made tank. And it never can be relied on. You cannot rely on a cistern.

L-53   Now anything that man does is usually not very good. But just like the--the Lord set time into--into--into its cycle, and the earth turning; every year, every time it crosses, every day, every hour, and the sun setting, and it never fails. But the very best watches we can get, will fail many minutes in a month's time, no doubt. But, you see, everything God does is perfect, and what man does is imperfect. So why accept what man does, when you can have perfect?

L-54   I've always said that about us Pentecostal people. See, we know, and we're not--we're not out of the order of course, of God, we don't believe; but we also know that among us we have people who try to impersonate the other fellow. That's just human. They'll try to do that. They did it in the Bible, "One, 'I'm of Paul,' 'I'm of Silas," and so forth. But, they, they tried to impersonate what someone else did or is doing.


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