<TITLE>19. Par 222-237</TITLE>L-222 It takes so much nicotine to satisfy that devil. That's right. And when you take a filtered cigarette, it takes about four cigarettes to take the place of one. It's a gimmick to sell you more cigarettes. You cannot have smoke unless you got tar; and tar, you've got cancer. See how it is? And the blind Americans, looking for a rabbit to come out of a hat somewhere, they fall for it. You can't have it; it's death, I don't care which way you go, it's death any way you go. "A thinking man's filter," a thinking man wouldn't smoke at all, that's right, if he's got any thoughts at all.

L-223   Well, I thought that just can comply to the churches. See? I think, has God got a filter? Yes.

L-224 And every church has got a filter. That's right. They filter ones that comes in, and they let a lot of death in too.

L-225 How could you ever draw a denomination through God's Filter? How could you do it? How could you draw a bobbed-hair woman through that Filter? Tell me. How could you ever draw a woman that wears slacks through There, when "It's an abomination for her to put on a garment pertains to a man"? See, God's Filter would catch her out there, It wouldn't let her come in. (But the church has got their own filters.) So I say that there is a thinking man's Filter, that's God's Word, and It suits a holy man's taste. That's right, a holy man; not a church man, but a holy man's taste. Because It's pure, holiness, unadulterated Word of God! There is a thinking man's Filter. And church member, I advise you to use That one.

L-226 Because it brings in the world, and one lump of it is death. One lump leavens, the one little leaven leavens the whole lump. "Whosoever shall take one Word out of This, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life."

L-227   At the Garden of Eden, what caused death, and all this sorrow, every heartache, every little dying baby, every rattle in the throat, every ambulance screaming, every hospital, every graveyard? Was because Eve doubted one Word (not all of It), it just perverted It. Now, God said, "Man," there, "he was to keep every Word of God." Now, that's the first of the Bible.

L-228 In the middle of the Bible, Jesus come, and He said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Not just part of Them, every one.

L-229 In the last of the Bible, Revelation 22, Jesus give the testimony of Himself. The Revelation of the--of the Bible is Jesus Christ. And He said, "Whosoever shall take one Word out of here, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life."

L-230 Now, you go through that thinking man's Filter, you'll have a holy man's taste when you come out of There. Right. You'll have a saintly taste.

L-231   Sister, you that wear those clothes, think of it. You're going to... You say, "I'm virtuous to my husband." "I'm virtuous to my boyfriend." "I'm a virtuous girl." But what about that sinner that looked at you? When he answers for adultery, who did it? See, you'll be guilty. See it written in the Word, so it's the... See? Oh, be a thinking woman. Be a thinking...

L-232 You might say, "It might..." Well, what if it does happen to be that way? He said so, and one Word can't fail. See?

L-233   The great man told me not long ago, called me into his room, said, "I'm going to lay hands on you, Brother Branham. You're ruining your ministry, preaching such things."

L-234 I said, "Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined." See?

L-235 He said, "I'll lay hands on you." Said, "You was sent to pray for the sick."

L-236 I said, "Do you believe those things, brother?"
He said, "No. But it's not our business."
I said, "Whose business is it, then?" See?
"Well," he said, "that's the pastor's business."

L-237 I said, "Look at the congregation." Uh-huh. That's right. See?


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