<TITLE>22. Par 130-135</TITLE>L-130   Notice, we cannot, we must not, listen to any other man's word. We don't care how smart, how educated. The Bible, in Proverbs, says, "We must cast down reasonings." See? Now, here in this second realm...
First realm is your senses of see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. That's in your outer body.
On the inner body, which is the spirit, is reasonings and thought, and so forth. We must cast all that down. Can't reason, say, "Now wait, if God is a good God..." And we're told so much today that He is. "If He is a good God, then if I be sincere, though I can't see that in that Bible being right, though I be sincere, I'll be saved." You'll be lost. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-131 "If I go to church and just do the things that I believe that's right, and try to hold up for what I think is right, well, I..." You're still lost.
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death." See? You won't be saved; you'll be lost. See? See? It must be that inside control Man.

L-132   "Well, I've spoke in tongues, Brother Branham. Well, don't you believe in speaking in tongues, Brother Branham?" Absolutely. "Well, I shouted; don't you believe that?" Yes, sir. "I live a good Christian life. Don't you believe in that?" Yes, sir. But still that don't mean you're saved. You're a good person; clean, moral, holy, good person.
So was those priests, religious to the core, so religious till one misconstrued, they'd be stoned to death. The death penalty of fooling with the Word of God was death.

L-133   That's what's the matter with our country today. The reason we got so many loose-leaf things in the earth today, the penalties are not strong enough. If a man was caught running out with another man's wife, they should both be taken out in public and castrated, right, public, and turned loose. That's right. If a man is caught doing anything wrong, down the road, speeding, he oughtn't to be given less than ten years; he's pre-... premeditated murder. See? You put penalties like that on it, you'll slow them down.
But when some crooked politician can get to this one over here and pass it off, and say, "Well, he was drinking a little, he was... didn't mean to do that." And would kill a man, wife, and a whole bunch of innocent children, let the Ricky get by with it, that's politics. That's the world. That's the devil.

L-134   God said if a man was caught in adultery, or a woman, take them out there and stone them to death. That settled it. See? If he's even caught picking up a weight of a stick, on the sabbath day, "Take him and stone him." They lived by it then. And now, see, we don't have them kind of laws today.
But the Christian, the church, what I'm talking to this morning, that law of God is in your heart. See? You have no desire to do it. It's inside here. You want to keep God's law so perfect. No matter what it is, you want to be just what... If--if God needs a doormat at the door, He wants you to be that doormat, you're so happy to be that. No matter what it would be, you want to be the doormat. See? Whatever God wants you to do, that's what you want to do, 'cause it's God. Now, that's where you really find your real, genuine, true love for God.

L-135   Now we find out then, that, "An Angel would preach anything else," besides what's...?... already been said in the Bible, "let him be cursed." Nobody can. Can't do that; It must be just exactly the way It says.


<A HREF="P23">Next Page</A>