<TITLE>06. Par 41-55</TITLE>L-41 Did you know your body is not made to lie? You know, they got a device now, it's--it's on your nerves. They can put a little band around your wrist here, and put one across your head, and then you can say there, say you say, "I--I--I lied about that, but I can say it so easy that they--they will believe that I'm telling it the truth." And you can say...

L-42 They would say, "Was you at a certain place, like did you sit in that Brother Shantz's trailer, while Brother Branham preached, Sunday afternoon on this day?"
And you say, "No, sir. I didn't sit there. No, sir."

L-43 You know what that lie detector will say? "Yes, sir, you did. Yes, sir, you did."
You say, "I did not."
It'll say, "Yes, you did."

L-44 Why? Because a lie is such a horrible thing. The body wasn't made to lie. And it's such a horrible thing, till it upsets the whole nerve system, when you lie. Whew! Upset like that, will give you ulcers, fungus growth, it'd kill you. And then a lie is a bad thing, 'cause, see, you're not supposed to lie, to steal, to do any of these things.

L-45   Now, so this young man had probably been... he hadn't lied, he never stole, and he was conscious that he needed ever, Eternal Life. So he said, "What can I do to have It?"

L-46 And Jesus is showing here now that religion won't do it. So He sent right back to him, and said, "Keep the Commandments."

L-47 He said, "Master, I have did this since I was a little boy, or little, when just a little bitty fellow I did this." But he knowed he didn't have Eternal Life. So He said then, "If you would enter into Life, Eternal Life, want to be perfect, then go sell what..."

L-48 See, now, it's all right to have money. See, it's all right to have money, be rich. And be a ruler, that's all right. But it--it's the way you act after you become that, see.

L-49 He said, "Go sell what you've got, and give it to the poor, them people that hasn't got anything; then come, follow Me, and you will have treasures in Heaven." But the young man had so much money till he didn't know what to do with it. Now, see, he was very popular, that young man was.

L-50   And he--he--he was well equipped for life, the way his father and mother, and the priests and all of them, had equipped him, but still he knowed he was lacking something. Now I'm talking to the adults. He, he knowed he was lacking something here. He didn't have Eternal Life. He knew it. See?

L-51 Religion won't produce Eternal Life. Forms, sensation, you feel something; you--you could get scared, and feel something. See? Crying, that's good; shouting, that's good; but that still ain't It, see. You are confronted with Eternal Life.

L-52 You say, "Well, I have been just a staunch Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian, or Pentecostal." That still isn't the question.

L-53 This young man was, too, he was taught in the religion of the day, but he still didn't have Eternal Life, so he wanted to know what to do. He had been guided successful, to This. But when he was confronted with It, he refused to be guided to Eternal Life, or to be led. His other leaders had had such a hold on him until he didn't want to turn it loose. See?

L-54   Now, that is something like what Brother Branham is saying. Some of it a little too deep for you, see.

L-55 Education is fine, you should go to school and learn. See, that's good, but that won't save you. To have plenty of money, that's good, you could raise your children, give them good clothes and things. And like papa and mama has worked for you all, and things. That's good, but that still won't save you. See? Or, you could get in a laboratory and learn how to put different things together, or split atoms, or whatever they do, and--and get in a--a rocket and--and go to the moon, but that won't save you.


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