<TITLE>17. Par 133-142</TITLE>L-133 Or a preacher from a seminary or some Bible school, using the trinitarian baptism, or compromising with the Word, to some creed or denomination. Is that a thinking man's Filter? Not the way I see it, brother. It's a foolish man drawing through that. That's right. Could you imagine that? Instead of using God's Word as a Filter for his soul; letting that old creed and denomination pile in on top of him like that, instead of taking God's Word for a Filter. And then he's all contaminated, and let them induce into him doctrines of man, doing things, "almost deceiving the very Elected," and neglecting the Word.
When, he could draw to his own soul, if there's anything in there to draw by. But if that predestinated seed... Don't miss this. If that predestinated seed is not in there, it will not draw through There, because it'll draw for its desire.

L-134   If a smoking man wants a smoking man's taste, and if he had got a hold of a stick... I say, "Suck your finger," and he stood there sucking his finger. [Brother Branham sucks on his finger, to illustrate--Ed.]

L-135 Why, he'd say, "That's silly." Why? His taste is for nicotine. So, he's not a thinking man. See? But you say, "Well, I don't, I won't taste nothing. I want to taste the... I want to taste tobacco. I don't taste a thing."

L-136 Give him a clothespin and let him suck on that. See? Sure, let him suck on that. He say, "I don't taste nothing." What you sucking on it for, then? You've got a desire to taste nicotine.
And when you're sucking on a church creed, and still you women wear bobbed hair, painted faces, and is sexy dressed; and you man look at them, and all these other things, and carry on the way you do. What is it? What's in there? The world is still in there, and you got a taste. You're pulling on it for a taste.

L-137   "I go to this church; they don't never name that thing. They don't say nothing about this, nothing about that. None of these things are brought up. Our preacher is more wide-minded than that. We don't say things like that." What is it? You've got the taste of the world you're sucking for. Right!

L-138 But a thinking woman won't take that kind of a thing. She knows she's got to be holy. And the only thing that you can draw through God's Word is the Spirit, the quickening Power to make the Word Itself, which is in you, live to manifest Jesus Christ in the age you're living. Hallelujah! Brother, if that ain't the Truth, I don't know what the Truth is. I've lost my mind if that isn't the Truth.

L-139 It is the Word Itself in your heart, predestinated there, that's drawing. And it spits out that world; it don't want it. But when it gets over here in the Word, it begins to draw. And when it draws through the Word, it can be nothing else but the Holy Ghost to quicken that Word.

L-140   Then a thinking, religious man's Filter is the Word, and it satisfies that holy taste that's in his heart; a thinking man's filter, a holy man's taste. Oh, my, what we're into!

L-141 Instead of using God's Filter for his soul, he's letting Satan deceive him by some denomination or creed, just exactly like the tobacco companies are deceiving you people that smoke cigarettes. You just get more members, and that's all.
Oh, let me close in a few minutes, saying this.

L-142   Blind Laodicea! How blind can we get! Blind Laodicea, the leading the blind of this age, under false pretense, under false creeds, under dogmas that's false, under denomination that's false, under creed books that's false. Oh, blind Laodicea, leading the blind, you're all headed for the ditch!


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