You're chatting as a guest.
Sign up for faster responses and saved conversations.
You're chatting as a guest.
Sign up for faster responses and saved conversations.
Bro. Branham taught that Christians are a separated, peculiar, holy people called out from the world to live sanctified lives, conducting themselves as children of the King in dress, talk, and actions, without forgetting God's laws of holiness. Evidence: [SPIRITUAL AMNESIA — 64-0411: ¶49–¶64]
He emphasized modesty in apparel for women, condemning short hair, paint on the face, tight or revealing clothes, earrings, shorts, and dressing to attract attention, stating the Bible requires women to dress in modest apparel becoming to holiness. Evidence: [THE LAMB AND THE DOVE — 57-0325: ¶39–¶43]; [GOD PERFECTING HIS CHURCH — 54-1204: ¶29–¶30]; [HEAR YE HIM — 56-0611: ¶21–¶22]
For conduct, he rebuked smoking cigarettes, telling dirty jokes, listening to worldly radio or television programs like "Who Loves Susie," dancing, and entertainment such as Arthur Godfrey shows or barn dances, urging men especially not to permit their wives such behavior and to live godly. Evidence: [THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS — 53-1129A: ¶95–¶99]; [BELIEVEST THOU THIS? — 53-0906A: ¶65–¶67]
Christians should reject worldly amusements like picture shows, card parties, and drinking, maintaining separation as God requires total separation from the world upon calling, without yoking to unbelievers or organizations. Evidence: [EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH — 54-0404M: ¶52]; [GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED — 56-0223: ¶56]; [ONENESS — 62-0211: ¶201]
In these passages, he contrasts true holiness with modern church compromises like bobbed-haired women in shorts or painted preachers' wives, calling for old-fashioned Gospel living without starch or compromise. Evidence: [IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL? — 63-0630E: ¶230–¶232]; [WHY? — 61-0128: ¶65–¶66]
God’s Church and His people has always been, “A separated people, a—a called out people, a peculiar people, a holy nation, a royal priesthood; offering spiritual sacrifices to God, the fruits of their lips, giving praise to His Name.” God called His Church and separated It from the world, for that very purpose. And He give it a law, and He, It, must be holy. [SPIRITUAL AMNESIA — 64-0411: ¶52]
We should conduct ourselves as Christian men and women. We should act like it, dress like it, talk like it, live like it. Though we be an alien, yet we are children of the King. [SPIRITUAL AMNESIA — 64-0411: ¶60]
The Bible said, “Let the women dress in modest apparel as may become holiness.” [THE LAMB AND THE DOVE — 57-0325: ¶39]
Here not long ago a fellow. I had a man driving a truck. He smoked cigarettes, and a man said to me, said, “Well, you can’t have that around us holiness people.” ... And the very same day in California, in my meeting, they brought a…He says, “I want you to meet our District Presbyter.” ... But she was painted like I don’t know what, two big earrings hanging way down like, like the devil was using her neck for a saddle and them for stirrups. [BELIEVEST THOU THIS? — 53-0906A: ¶65–¶66]
Now, you’re going to get angry with me, you just might as well get started. But, you men that’ll let your wives go out and act like that, and smoke cigarettes, and walk around, that shows how much man’s in you. [THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS — 53-1129A: ¶95]
God wants separation from the world. He wants to be unionized with you, Himself. [ONENESS — 62-0211: ¶201]
You're chatting as a guest.
Sign up for faster responses and saved conversations.
You're chatting as a guest.
Sign up for faster responses and saved conversations.