<TITLE>14. Par 112-118</TITLE>L-112 I said, "So was Judas." I said, "Judas only got thirty pieces of silver; Elvis Presley got several million dollars." See? "They both sold out their birthrights." See? I said, "They're noth-... the very worst indebtment the nation's got." Still, just as deceiving as the filter of the cigarette, these denominations let those members come in. They oughtn't to even be... There ought to be a law that they couldn't sing religious songs. It's against... ought to be against the law for them to do it.
But the whole thing has become one great big pile of hypocrisy, and there's where they stay today. The true Filter for the soul, says, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you."

L-113   See, you can't--you can't say rock-and-roll is of the world... or is of God. Rock-and-roll is of the world. Any of those dances and filtered... nasty filthy things, rather, is of the world. It's all of the world.
You can't say that bobbed hair for a woman is of God. The Bible says it's not, so it's the filth of the world. And if you love one speck of the world, the love of God is not even in you. See?

L-114 What's that? Well, what's drawing it? It's something down on the inside drawing. The soul is drawing your resource through the outside, down through the spirit, into the soul. And if the soul loves the world, it's dead. I don't care how it's anointed, it is out here, and how righteous it is out here; down in here it's dead. "For he that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in him," no matter how religious.

L-115 The true Filter, that way, will--will set all those things out and bring nothing but the trueness of God, the Word, into the real true soul.

L-116   They're like Esau, outwardly okay. Esau was religious on the outside. And when it comes to religion, it seemed to be more religious than Jacob was. He seemed to be a better man than Jacob was, but the inside of him, what he was. He was outwardly religious, but his thinking was not filtered. He didn't think right of the birthright. He--he didn't think that God, the birthright meant as much as God said it did. There he was, said, "I'm hungry, what difference it make about the old birthright? You can have it if you want it." Oh, my! See?
"I go to church; I'm just as good as you are. My denomination is just as... Why, it's one of the greatest in the world. My mother belonged to it. My father belonged to it. All this, that, and the other. My pastor was educated; he's got so-and-so." That puts him that much farther from God. That ain't a thinking man's filter.
If it would, how could Peter ever been what he was, when he couldn't sign his own name? But he packed the thinking man's Filter. Notice. Oh, my!

L-117   Esau thought that that birthright didn't mean what God said it did. That was the difference between Life and death. And so, like Eve and like Judas, sold their birthrights for a satisfaction of the taste of the knowledge of civilization. That's exactly what Eve sold her birthrights for. She sold it for a little taste of science, a little taste of worldly knowledge, a little better church, a little better class of people, today it would be called. See?
And Judas sold his birthrights for thirty pieces of silver, and make a few extra dollars. "My congregation can pay me better over here, and I'll just preach over here." See? "So, if I become a preacher, well..."

L-118   They said, "Brother Branham, we believe that Message is the Truth, but we can't accept It. If we did, why, where would we preach at?" Huh! The world, brother, that's the parish. Certainly. "Well, none of the brethren would back me up." I--I ain't looking for none of the brethren to back me up. I'm looking for Jesus Christ to back me up, because He stood by It. He's the One Who said It.


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