<TITLE>22. Par 226-239</TITLE>L-226   When at a Kiwanis Club, I said now... And they tell me I was "going to become a holy roller" when I left the Baptist church, so I could fellowship with all people. They said, "Why, you'll become a holy-roller." I sat with a bunch of my Baptist brethren, I said, "You've sent missionaries in there, for the last hundred and fifty years, what did I find them? Still packing idols." I said, "But the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, thirty thousand received Christ at one time."

L-227 Now I want to say to you women, you know what happened to them women? I said, "Right on the grounds where you're standing, the Holy Spirit will fill you." And when they raised their hands to accept Christ as their Saviour, and when they walked away from there; naked, now, nothing but just a little patch, clout, in front. And when they walked away from there, they folded their arms like this, because they was in presence of man, after they had accepted Christ.

L-228   Now how can we, sisters, how can we in this nation where we claim to believe and be Christians, and every year they take more off? When, that person never even heard the Name of Christ, but just accepted Him in their heart. No, you couldn't tell them they were naked, they didn't know it. But they covered themselves up like this, to walk away. The next day, or two, you would find them with clothes on, of some kind. Oh, my!

L-229 There is something wrong somewhere. It's a twisting up of theology. The power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, like He did to the man who called "Legion," we found him clothed and in his right mind. And I begin to believe that it's a spirit upon the people that drives them into that Americanism and Frenchism, and all kinds of worldlism and churchism. But let them once come to that Master, and they feel that knock at the door, they'll put clothes on and act like women and man, and they'll be born-again Christians. Amen. Yes.

L-230   Now I'm done, twenty minutes until twelve, just a--just a few minutes, let me by-pass some. Just a moment, some Scriptures, I'd like to open one more door. Would it be all right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-231 The next door, to there, is faith. See, your private life... door of pride, your private life, now let's open faith. Just a whole ring of them, see, but let's go into faith.

L-232 You know, sometime ago I was in the hospital and a woman going under an operation. She called me, she said, "Brother Branham, I'm a backslider. Would you pray for me?"

L-233 I said, "Yes, ma'am, I'd be glad to." I said, "You're a backslider?"
"Yeah."

L-234 I said, "Now let's just wait just a minute. Let me read the Scriptures to you."

L-235 There was a lady laying there in a bed, looked at me, real funny; her, and her son about twenty years old, a regular Ricky, and standing there looking at me like that.

L-236 And I said, "Yes, ma'am," I said. I read the Scriptures to her, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, be white like wool." And, my, I read that to her. I said, "If you've strayed away, see, you've got away from God, but God never got away from you, or you wouldn't be calling for me." She started crying. I said, "We'll pray."

L-237 That lady over in the next bed, said, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute there!"
I said, "Yes, ma'am?"
She said, "Pull that curtain!"
And I said, "Aren't you a Christian?"
She said, "We are Methodist!"

L-238 I said, "Well, what has that got to do with it? See, that's no more than saying you was a--you was a colt, if you was in a pig pen, see." I said, "That don't mean a thing." See?

L-239 But, you see, that's where it's come, that self-righteous. "That's against our faith!" I said the... "We don't want Divine healing in our church, or that kind of stuff." See, see what I mean? See, they won't let in that door. "That's against our faith."


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