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And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. (2 Samuel 11:6-11)

132 While walking today and talking with a young man, I said, “When I get to Heaven, one of the things I want to do was to walk up and shake hands with a certain fellow that had done a gallant thing.” And he talked about the one he wanted to see. He wanted to shake his hand, of different things, of how that God blessed the people.

133 When, Uriah, after that David had taken Bathsheba, his wife, and they sent out and got him. And she was to be mother. And brought her in, so that he could lay it onto Uriah. And he was not a Gentile…He was not a Jew. He was a Gentile, and he was a Hittite, a proselyte to the Jewish religion. And he told him to go down and stay a while at home, with his lovely, beautiful wife. He said, “God forbid that I’d do such a thing as that, and the ark of my God on the battlefield.” And he refused to do it.

134 And, brother, when I get to Glory, I want to walk up to Uriah and shake his hands, and say, “God be praised, for Your testimony meant something to me in my earthly journey.”

135 I want to walk over to Daniel, say, “You know, Daniel, when you went in there fearless before those lions, that testimony meant something to me.” Yes, sir.

136 I want to see the apostle, Peter, and say, “Peter, that night when you was in prison, and the Lord come in with a big Light and shined over you, oh, I always admired that. And you started following that Light, and the door opened before you, and took you right into the streets. You thought you were dreaming.” What a time!

137 Not going to be no quiet place in Heaven, when all that redeemed gets around There, is it? It’s going to be a marvelous thing take place up There, when all the redeemed comes marching in.

54-1231 - "Everlasting Life And How To Receive It"

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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:1-5)

21 And then in there, I tell you, when we went into India, and to see those poor people laying on the streets, and starving to death. And little mothers with their babies, and begging for something. And them dying, themself, from starvation, but don’t let their baby die. And for just little, quarter, pennies, or anything. If they can get that much food every three days, they can make it. They don’t have no home to go to. Just when they get sleepy, they lay on the street. And they…old razorback hog, maybe, don’t get over about that big, and his sides pulled together from starvation, walking around over the people. And old goat, and him about to reel to pieces, too, walking over the people. And they stink. And, oh, you never seen such a conglomeration as India is in! Course, it’s practically always been that way. It’s nothing new.

22 They just got their independence about six years ago, on bankruptcy from England, as you know. And they’re—they’re a very odd people.

23 I never seen a man in all India, with the millions that I got to see, that had limbs, up above anywhere in their thigh, up here, that big around; all real skinny, bony people. And at my window, it would break the heart of a man, as my son sitting back there, listening. And he sit at the window and watched as people sitting on the streets. When they found out where I was at, and lepers with no hands on, things like little stubs raising up in the air, begging for something to eat, or anything; and no feet, and white over with leprosy. And, oh, it’s, one couldn’t help the other one, hardly. And, oh, it’s the most pitiful sight you ever seen!

24 And I said to the missionaries, I said, “I just can’t stand it.” I give every penny I had, away, and everything, on the streets. And I—I—I thought, “They got just as much right to eat as my Sarah and Rebekah has.”

25 And—and—and you just don’t realize how blessed you are, people. Now, that’s right, you don’t realize it. You know, you ought to look up and see where it comes from. My! It come…And American people is like a hog under an apple tree. You know, he…all day long the apples will hit him on the head, and he’ll eat them, and never look up to see where they’re coming from. And that’s the way we are. We never give it the thought, I mean, in whole; I ain’t meaning you people here. You’re Christians. But I—I mean the people in whole, how they just…they don’t—they don’t realize how blessed and how well off they are.

54-1003m - "The Word Became Flesh (India Trip Report)"

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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16)

20 Now, we know what the Holy Spirit is. We found out, last night, that It’s God.

Now, when we think of God, the Father, as Jesus spoke of here, His Father; God, the Son, as Jesus; God, the Holy Spirit, as what we call It today, now, that does not mean that there is three individual, distinct Gods. It means that there is one God in three offices.

May we say it like this. All that God was, He poured into Christ, because He emptied Himself and poured It into Christ. “And Christ was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” All that Jehovah was, He poured into Christ.

And all that Christ was, He poured into the Church; not into one individual, but into the entire Body. There, where we come together in unity, we have Power. All that God was, was in Christ; and all that Christ was, is in you.

“For God was made flesh, and dwelled among us.” First Timothy 3:16, if you’re putting it down, “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: for God was manifested in the flesh, and we handled Him. God, Jehovah, made flesh, and walked on the earth, and we saw Him with our eyes.”

21 You know, in the same chapter, of John 14, Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us.”

22 Jesus said, “I have been so long with you, Philip, and you don’t know Me? When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. And why sayest thou unto Me, ‘Show us the Father’?” God was made flesh.

23 Now here it is. The Father was God over you, we’re saying. We’ve been since Adam. God, the Father, was over Moses and the children of Israel, in a Pillar of Fire. Then, God with us, in Christ; walked with us, talked with us, eat with us, slept with us. God over us; God with us; and now God in us. All God was, come into Christ; all Christ was, come into the Church.

What is it? God working in you. Anywhere in the world that He would want to call on you, you’re right there, working in you to do His good will. How we ought to thank God for that! God, the Holy Spirit, is sent for the purpose of God living in His Church, moving through each age, working out His Divine will.

24 When man make fun of you, they’re not making fun of you, they’re making fun of Him that sent you. So Jesus said, “Blessed are ye when men shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for My Name’s sake. Blessed are you.” And, again, “All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions.”

For, when God made Hisself known in Christ, they hated Him. Who hated Him, worst? The church. The church hated Him, worst. They hated Him worse than the—the drunkard. They hated Him worse than all the other people. It was the church that hated Him. So, therefore, when you see kosmos, “The world order, the world knowed Him not,” means, “the church,” so-called, “knew Him not. He came to His own, and His own received Him not.”

“But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God, to them that believed on His Name.” Oh, how we should love Him and worship Him! The purpose of God, wanting to become in fellowship!

59-1217 - "What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?"

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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. (1 Timothy 2:1-8)

9 You know there’s something about getting alone to yourself. Many people never pray until they come to church. Many people thinks that the only place to pray is at church, but the Bible said for men to pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands. And then when we get by ourself, we’ll usually pray different than what we would if we prayed in church. It’s the secret prayer that Jesus spoke of, saying, “Enter ye into a secret closet, and close the door, and when you have did so, pray to your Father Who sees in secret; and He that seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

And when we’re praying like that, there seems to be something to the prayer that takes all the hypocrisy out of it. It seems like that we get in a better connection with God, to get alone. And there’s been many times in my life, as perhaps in your life, that you just have to get alone once in a while with Jesus. I’ve took my car and drove down the road and just studying. After I got to the highway where it was free, or off on some country road, till I would become so filled with His mercies and goodness, till I’d just stopped the car and held the wheel and wept like a baby.

10 That being alone… Many times I’ve climbed up into the mountains. Where every man thought (was with me), I was going hunting. Go up there, and set down on a rock, and just look up to the sky until looked like that my whole innermost being become filled with something that you could just feel… Oh, everything of the world seemed to pass away. Oh, for those precious hours alone with God.

And it’s there that when the greatest revelation and inspiration comes, is when we’re alone with God. We’d take more time on that, I’m sure, that we would live a better life, more victorious life in Christ.

And maybe Bartimaeus had pulled off over in the warm sunshine after setting in the shadows of the morning to catch the first people coming by for a coin. But he got cold, and he goes out and sits down by the side of the wall and perhaps feeling his way along till he got to the warm sun, and then leaning back…

57-0301 - "Blind Bartimaeus"

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As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. (1 Timothy 1:3-4)

58 If we’re not, why don’t we just break the thing down, and consolidate with some other of our denominations, our Methodists brethren here, our Baptist brethren, our Pente-… our Presbyterian, or, why don’t you all go back and be Catholic? That’s the oldest one of the bunch of them. See, go back and be that. But if we’re Pentecostal, let’s be Pentecostal by experience. Rise, shake yourself. Yes. Said, “Go tell him. What’s the matter?” Why would the Pentecostal people…?

A girl asked me the other day, said, “Brother Branham, they’re beginning to wear scandal skirts.”

I said, “What’s that?”

“Oh,” she said, “the girls are wearing skirts that’s cut down this way that shows their underskirt. Do you think it’s wrong for a girl to do that?”

I said, “Sister, what in the world does a Pentecostal Holy Ghost-filled girl want to show her underskirt for? I would just like to ask you that.” If she’d been right with God, she wouldn’t have had to ask that.

59 I got a little Bible when I first started out, I wrote a little book; there should be if somebody say, “Is it wrong to smoke, is it wrong to drink, is it wrong to so-and-so?” Like that.

I said, “Don’t ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind. If you love the Lord with all your heart, you don’t smoke, chew, or drink any shine.” And that’s… I still stand by that. When the love of God’s in your heart, you have got no time for nothing else. You’re sold out.

The Bible says, “If you love the world or the things of the world, it’s because the love of God’s not even in you.” And your own life tells about it. I hope that’s plain enough, I won’t have to get any plainer. See? But that’s true. “By their fruits you know them.”

So shake ourselves. Let’s be Pentecostal or—or to be something else. If we are not Pentecost, let’s quit saying we are (See?), until we get back to the real Pentecostal experience, get back to faith, daring faith. Them disciples sealed their death with their faith. “Oh, faith of our fathers, living still, in spite of dungeon, flame, or sword.” That’s what we want, real genuine faith.

60 You Methodists need it; you Baptists need it; you Pentecostals need it; all of us need it. God’s going to say, “Why? Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there, then why? Is there no—is there no prophet in Israel, is there no God there?” Has Pentecostal lost their God? Don’t they have any more gifts in amongst Pentecostal? Have they no more prophets, gifts of prophecy, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, no one else to speak in tongues and give message? One thing, you don’t reverence them gifts enough. Another thing, you don’t prove them first. Then you get every kind of spirit in there speaking. When you get that spirit that don’t say something that’s right, get it out of there. You don’t want a substitute. God’s got a real one for you.

61-0413 - "Why?"

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And such as do wickedly against  the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know  their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand  among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword,  and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. (Daniel 11:32-33)

30  But He give a super Sign so that about one tenth of them would believe  it. See, what man calls great, God calls foolish. And what man calls  foolish, God calls great. Now, we cannot dispute Isaiah’s word here,  when God said through Isaiah, “I will give them an everlasting sign  (everlasting): a virgin shall conceive and shall bear a son, and call  His name Immanuel. I will be in Him,” God with us, a super Sign, not a  polished scholar, but a super Sign.

There’s  no record of Him ever going to any seminary, no record of Him ever  learning any man-made theology, but the… At the age of twelve, He was  standing with the sages, disputing with them. And they couldn’t  withstand His Word. Amen. There’s your super Sign: staying with the  Word.

31 They say, “The days  of miracles is past,” and all these things. Let them prove it. “I’ll  give you a everlasting sign, the super Sign.” Oh, yes. Now, He could’ve  come an Angel. He could’ve come whatever He wished to. But He chose to  come as Abraham’s Seed (Amen.), Abraham’s super Seed. That’s right. The  way He chose to come to show in this last days God’s super signs, a  super race… Oh, yes. Not what you call a super race, but what God calls  super race… Because they got what? Supernatural power, with supernatural  signs, through a supernatural belief in a supernatural Word, from a  supernatural God. Amen. You talk about super. Whew.

Supernatural  God in a supernatural body in a natural people, giving supernatural  signs… Hallelujah. Yes. A super race… They that know their God shall do  exploits, great exploits, and show supernatural signs: a people,  Abraham’s Seed, a sign of the supernatural Christ risen from the dead  supernaturally.

32 And after  two thousand years, the critics that tried to put Him to death down  there, is trying to do the same thing today. But the same signs, the  same supernatural Sign still shows amongst supernatural people, which is  the Seed of Abraham. Amen. I feel good. Amen. Supernatural,  supernatural…

You don’t  believe in supernatural, how can you believe in God? Supernatural borned  by a supernatural birth, by a supernatural power, talk about super?  What is it in man? He wants super. So what’s he doing with his super?  Going to death with it. What… God knowed that in the beginning, to give  His people a super, a Super that’s humble and low to take them to Life,  not to death. Oh… Amen. Supernatural…

Now  remember, there was a natural seed of Abraham and a supernatural Seed  of Abraham. Now, the natural seed of Abraham, according to Genesis 22:16  and 17, He said, “Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemy.”

61-0430 - "Super Sign"

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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)

22 The god of this world today, the worshiped person of this world today, is Satan. And the people are ignorant of worshiping Satan, but it’s Satan impersonating himself as the church, see, as the church. They worship Satan, thinking that they are worshiping God through the church, but it’s the way Satan has done it.

“Oh,” you say, “but wait a minute; we preach the Word.”

23 Look back here at my text, tonight. Satan was the one that preached the Word to Eve, first, “God hath said,” see.

24 It’s that misconstruing that part of the Scripture that applies to the day. He’ll let you know all Jesus did was perfectly well. He’ll let you know all that Moses did was perfectly well. But when you take the promises that They gave for this day, then That was applied to another age. That’s just all he has to do, see, is to get the people to believe It that way, and that—that’s all. For, “You cannot take one Word away from It, or add one word to It.” But that’s what he does.

25 People, ignorantly worshiping Satan, thinking they are worshiping God; as we are warned by prophecy, in Second Thessalonians. That, let’s just read that, Second Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter. Let’s just get it a moment, if I can, right away. I’d like to read that. Just, I believe, Second Thessalonians. I got the Scripture here. In Second…

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus…and by the gathering together unto him,

26 Now, see, “the coming of the Lord, and the gathering to Him,” as God will gather His people to Him in the last days. “The gathering of the people to the Lord,” not to the church, “to the Lord; gathering together unto Him.”

That ye be not soon shaken in your mind, or…troubled— troubled, neither by spirit, nor…word, nor by letter as from us, as…the day of the Lord is at hand.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin (“man of sin,” watch what he is now), the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (that was Judas, see);

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

27 That deceitfulness of the church of today! See, “the son of perdition,” the devil. “The son of perdition,” the devil. Then, people worshiping Satan in this day, thinking they’re worshiping God. But they’re worshiping him through a creed, a man-made denominations and creeds that’s brought the people right down to the greatest deception that the world has ever knowed of. No matter how much the Word of God promised for this day, is preached and vindicated, they still won’t believe It. They won’t believe It.

28 Then why? We wonder why. Why doesn’t it; why won’t they believe It? When God said He would do a certain thing, and He does it, and still they turn their back from it and turn away from it. Just as Eve knew that what God said, God would do; but she turned her back on it, to listen to what he had to say.

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Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. (Psalm 127:1)

45 A lovely little girl that’s recently…I used to go with her mother when we were young. And she was a lovely, beautiful woman. Her name is Huff now, her name was Lee before she was married. When I used to pastor the Milltown Baptist Church, they belonged to the United Brethren Church, but, oh, they liked me real well. And she…I used to go with her. They lived way back up behind Brother Wright’s here. To…And I used to go up to their house, and the little girl was a very sweet little girl, and she was a little girlfriend to me. And Brother Lee, a fine man, loyal to the church, the United Brethren view of the church, and one night he invited me to go home with him and stay all night. And I said, “Brother Marrion, I’ll—I’ll be glad to do that.” And so after the service was over, well, the—the girl and I got in the car and we went on. And I had to open a dozen gates, I believe, going around the hillside, and up, to hit a great big old log house. Well, we set out in the yard and waited for her mother and father, and younger sister, to come up. When they come up, we all went in and had a little lunch that night. The mother had got some stuff out and we eat, and—and the father and I were sleeping together downstairs, in a great big featherbed, and—and a strawtick under it, you know, real good sleeping. It’s better than any of these old Beautyrest mattresses you get, I’ll tell you that. And so we…The mother and the two girls went upstairs.

46 And that night while we were laying there, Brother Lee had a dream. And he had always debated with me about the water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He didn’t believe It. And he was a contractor. So he said, “Brother Branham, I just dreamed a dream.” And he said, “I dreamed I went up to New Albany. And I was building a man’s house, and he gave me the blueprint. But when I seen a certain way he cut his windows and fixed a certain place, I said, ‘That’s not right. It just can’t be right. That’s contrary. That, that isn’t right.’ So I built it the way I thought was right. And when he come back from Florida, from his vacation, I had his house almost ready.”

47 “He looks at the house, and he goes and gets the blueprint and looks at that, and said, ‘Say, you have built my house wrong!’”

“And I said to him, ‘No, I haven’t built your house wrong.’”

“‘What about this such-and-such a place?’”

“Well,” he said, “that really don’t belong there.”

48 “He said, ‘Tear it down! If you expect me to pay you, you’ll build it the way the blueprint said.’”

49 And he said, “What do you think about that, Brother Branham?”

50 I said, “There is a creek running right down below the house here.” And we went to it.

He said, “I don’t want any tearing down on that day.”

51 I said, “Get it right, now. Put it up according to the Blueprint!”

61-1231m - "You Must Be Born Again"

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But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6)

19 People live today as though, just before the Coming of the Lord Jesus, if He was going to send a host of Angels down to all the newspapers, and, for a year or so, announce it throughout all the world, in the newspaper, that, “On a such-and-such a date, Jesus will arrive.” And to have it broadcast by the radio, and put on the televisions, and everywhere, just the day and just the hour that He was coming. Now that’s the way people live today.

20 But, God has said in His Word, that, “It would be like a thief in the night, coming.”

21 If that would be so, people would say, as the world thinks today, “Oh, well, there is just plenty of time. I’ll…It’ll be well announced.” And, but, you see, it is announced, but it’s a secret announcing. It’s just those who are willing to hear it. Those who are willing to consider it and, too, who loves the Lord.

22 I think now of what Paul said when he said, “There is a crown of righteousness laid up for me, that the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me at that day.” And then he stopped. Did you notice? And said, “Not only me, but to all them that love His appearing.” If we love His appearing!

23 Usually in the world today, that people think of the appearing of the Lord as a horrible, dreadful thing. Oh, the world might come to its… “Don’t talk to me about that,” they’ll say. They don’t want to know about those things. They don’t care about them; just for the present day living. But those who love the Lord, love His appearing.

24 What if one of your loved one, some of you older people, that your mother was gone on, or your father, or your baby, and they were been away for so many years, and you knowed that they might appear at any time? Why, you’d have the house all cleaned up. You would just be ready and watching down that road, for, every car light that turned in, you’d think it would be them.

25 Now that’s the way the Church ought to be watching for the Coming of the Lord. All in order, all ready, all packed up and ready to go as soon as He comes, because, “It’ll be in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.” Just try to time how long it would take your eye to twinkle, that’s just how quick the Rapture of the Church will take place.

58-1012 - "The Sudden, Secret Going Away Of The Church"

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For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-7)

147 And, brother, we’ve been a great nation. We’ve been a great people. We’ve been a great church. We’ve been a great everything. But, I tell you, everything mortal has to give away. And this, the time is at hand. I tell you everything is laying, and the world has become to one great big chaos of just corruption and stink, before God.

148 This nation is whiskey drinking, beer drinking. And our taxes is paid on this whiskey and stuff, which supports our nation. And it’s blood money, if you think it’s wrong to drink whiskey.

149 And you say, “Leave it alone, preacher. You oughtn’t to say nothing about drinking. It’s our American rights.”

150 I know it’s your American rights, but it’s not your Heavenly rights. And, brother, if you are willing before God, you’ll…You will be able…You will, in your heart, forfeit every filthy right that you have, to serve the Lord, and will purpose in your heart that you’ll not defile yourself with the things of the world.

151 You say, “Brother Branham, other Christians smoke. Why can’t I smoke?”

152 You might have a right to smoke, as an American citizen. But you have not the right to do it, as a Christian, because it’s a stumbling block in the other person’s way. That’s exactly right. And you shouldn’t do it; you’ll lay a stumbling block.

153 All these other things, and your dressing. Say, “Well, the rest of the women, they dress like this. The other girls, they dress like this. They do this. Why can’t I do it?” I know, it’s your American rights. “The law don’t say I can’t do it.” I know that. It don’t say hardly anything. You can do anything you want to, that’s right, just about any.

154 But, brother, it’s not in a Christian’s heart to do that. If you’ll purpose in your heart that you’ll live clean and pure before God, nature itself will teach you that those things are wrong.

155 But, here we are, we come into this place. What is it? It’s because we’re at the end road. Purpose in your heart, tonight, “Never no more, never no more, as long as the world stands,” or as long as you live, that you’ll never defile yourself anymore with the portion of the American way of life, yes, sir, American way of life, so-called.

156 Now, the old American way of life was fine; be neighborly and honest, so forth. That’s good. But this modern way, of your nakedness, and drinking, and carousing, and separation, and marrying, and intermarrying, and—and all this nonsense; purpose in your heart to abstain from all that, as long as you live.

Let us pray.

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