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1. SPIRITUAL AMNESIA — 1964-04-11

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• ¶49–¶53 They had a bad case of it. After God had been good to them, and brought them up from all the heathen lands, and made them a separated people, separated them to Hisself. He said, “He took a vine out of another country and planted it over in another country, and how He fixed it around to make it grow fruit and be fruitful, but the vine forgot where its blessings come from.” So has God’s people, in these last days, has forgotten what the testimony of being a Christian means. It’s again, this amnesia has become upon the people. They can’t identify themselves. They, they forgot all about It. They had forgot His holiness. They had forgot His law. The women were living like the rest of the women. 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. He said, “I am holy, and you must be holy, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” God said that, Himself. And He had called this people to be this type of people, but they had forgotten about it. They had forgotten His laws, and they had forgotten their morals. The women out in the street, Israelite women out there, each one expecting to—to be conceived by the Holy Spirit, to bring forth the Messiah, and then acting like that. Their character was terrible.

• ¶60–¶64 He said, “Well, what’s the difference of that slave?” Said, “Is that slave the boss over the rest of them?” He said, “No, he’s just a slave.” He said, “Well, maybe you feed him different.” He said, “No, he eats in the galley with the rest of the slaves.” He said, “Well, what makes him so different from the rest of the slaves?” He said, “Well, this I wondered, too, for a long time. But one day I learned, that, over in the homeland where he come from, his father is the king of the whole tribe. And though he be an alien, and away from home, yet he knows he’s the son of a king, and he—he conducts himself like the son of a king.” I thought, “But, that, if a Negro coming from Africa, and knowed that his father was a tribesman and a king over a tribe, what ought it to do to a Christian that’s born again, a man or a woman, that our Father is the King of Heaven in Glory!” 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. Amen. Our character, our demoralization in the days that we’re living in now! Israel had dropped into that same rut and was also immoral. They had forgot the laws of God, “Thou shalt not commit adultery, and thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife,” and so forth. They had forgotten those laws. They—they—they didn’t want it any more. And they—they wanted to—to be like the rest of the world, just like the church has got today.

2. BELIEVEST THOU THIS? — 1953-09-06

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• ¶11–¶12 He said, “Rev. Brother Branham, this…You don’t know what this is.” I said, “It don’t makes any difference, sir. I don’t take people’s money.” I come into this world poor. I’ll go out poor. How could I be rich and the people setting here…Not long ago they were going to give me a big Cadillac. My little, old Chevrolet truck out there was just about backslid so I…That’s a big word for a Baptist, isn’t it? Backsliding, but you can do it. So it was…He said, “Are you…Is that—what you’re riding?” I said, “Yes, sir. It’s a dandy.” And he said, “Well,” he said, “I tell you, Brother Branham,” said, “We give Avak a Cadillac,” said, “we’ll just give you a new one to ride home in.” I said, “I—I appreciate it, brother.” I said, “I—I appreciate it with all my heart,” but I said, “I—I couldn’t ride in a Cadillac.” I said, “I appreciate anybody can ride in one,” but I said, “I couldn’t do it.” What if I’d be going down through Arkansas now (See?), where all them poor little cotton pickers out there and them little mammies out there in the field with a cotton sack on her back about fifty or a hundred pounds of cotton dragging of a morning, her poor, little, old hand stuck up with cotton burrs like that, eating fat bacon and some corn bread for breakfast and there—there’s Brother Branham going down through there with a big Cadillac? Not me. No, sir. No, sir. That don’t run in my blood. If I got what I deserved, I’d be walking, riding a bicycle or something. Yes, sir. I mean that from my heart, and I’d rather have favor with God than to have the best beautiful home you got in Chicago and be out of commission of God. My main thing is to be in favor with God.

• ¶65–¶67 First think you know these people set around there, and most of the members…I’m—I’m preaching…Listen, brother, I got to answer before God someday. That’s right. Not long ago, you holiness people, how you used to do your… take your women out here, how they would dress. 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.” I said, “The man’s a good man. He don’t claim to be a Christian, and I’m just letting him drive one of them trucks out there.” Said, “Well, brother, you can’t do that.” Said, “That man smokes cigarettes.” And the very same day in California, in my meeting, they brought a…He says, “I want you to meet our District Presbyter.” I said, “How do you do, sir. I’m glad to meet you, brother.” He said, “Here’s my wife. I want you to meet…” And brother…Now, women, don’t let this hurt you. See? 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 and setting up there with her clothes on that looked like everything. And I said, “Do you mean that’s that preacher’s wife?” He said, “Yes.” And I said, “Is—is she a saint?” Said, “Yes.” I said, “She looks like a haint to me, instead of a saint,” setting there like that. It’s a shame. You’ve let down the bars, brother and sister. That’s exactly what you got. You got starch in the church. You ought to come back to the old fashion Gospel again that cleans men up. Amen. Here’s a little one for you. Let me tell you, sisters, and I’ve always had my opinion of women that…Today I see where that ninety-eight percent, medical claims, of cancer of the throat and lungs comes from cigarette smokers, and women smoke cigarettes. There’s more men has lung cancer and throat cancer, but the women’s begin to get it now, ’cause it takes about twenty years for it to develop.

3. HEAR YE HIM — 1956-06-11

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• ¶21–¶22a Notice now, what if this tutor, this raiser…Paul teaches it very plain over in the Gospels, or in the books of the New Testament. I want you to notice: as this tutor, he must be an honest man. Now, he mustn’t pull any strings. The son couldn’t pull any strings with the tutor, because the tutor, or the teacher, had to tell the father just exactly the conduct of the son. And how the tutor must’ve bowed his head in shame when he went before the father to say, “Your boy is not obedient. He’s so loosely.” How he must’ve hid his face… And I wonder how the Holy Spirit is, how It must, as a prophet of old, blushed when He stood in the Presence of God, when He brings the character and the conduct of the church in this day. How He must blush when He stands before the Father and says, “Oh, they’re all separated; they’re acting like the world. They’re marrying and giving in marriage. The women are dressing and acting just like almost harlots on the street. How the men are smoking cigarettes, and telling dirty jokes, and staying home at night and listening to Who Loves Susie, and all those things on television, and neglecting the church…How the pastor is leaving his post of duty for more money somewhere else… How the deacon board is running the bookies and so forth…” How it must make the Holy Spirit blush in the Presence of God. Let me say this. You say, “Brother Branham, every time you come here you beat down on the people.” Well, if you…Maybe you need it. We’ve got to tally up with this Book. Let me say something, sister. What’s happened to the holiness church? What’s happened to our people? I appreciate the decency that you do show. But did you know, years ago it was wrong for you to cut your hair? The Bible says it was. Well, why do we have so many bobbed haired women today? It used to be wrong for you to wear that manicure, ever, how that’s the wrong name for it, but that stuff you put on your face, paint.

4. THE LAMB AND THE DOVE — 1957-03-25

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• ¶39b–¶41 And you preacher, you ain’t got no…” Yes, but if you’re a lamb, you’ll forfeit it. The Bible said, “Let the women dress in modest apparel as may become holiness.” That’s right. Well, you say, “If I don’t cut my hair, it gives me a headache.” Get it all off then; that’s what the Bible said; shave it. You wouldn’t have a headache much more if that was it. That’s true. Well, you say, “You’re a burning the women up.” Yeah, and I’m going to tell you men something too. Any man that’ll let his wife act like that, and smoke cigarettes, and act the way she does, that shows what you’re made out of. That’s a very little thing for a man. That’s…God gave you the rulership over her and what are you doing? She’s ruling you, and that shows what you’re made out of. That’s right. True. Oh, brother, no wonder the holiness church is gone to the dogs. That’s right. Now, if you seen a pig out rooting in manure pile, you wouldn’t think nothing, because he’s a pig. But I’ll tell you one thing; you’ll never find a lamb coming over and eating with him. That’s right. That’s right. And you people, you know that’s true. And you find a man that calls hisself a Christian, out indulging in the things of the world, telling old dirty jokes, and listening to Arthur Godfrey, and them kind of dirty things on the radio, and tell me you’re a Christian? You act like a pig in the stead of a lamb. That’s right. Come into your house and on the wall’s old pinup, dirty pictures, in your office boogie-woogie music going on, and tell me you’re a Christian? That shows what’s on the inside of you. Yes, sir. Then you wonder why we haven’t got the victory. That’s right.

• ¶42–¶43 Here the other night I went to a Pentecostal meeting, and the women out on the platform with earrings, looked like the devil had done put a saddle on them and used them for a stirrup, hanging up and down the place, and dancing, their little old dress on that looked like she’d been poured in there, so tight the skin was on the outside; and you mean to tell me that’s Christianity? Not according to the Bible it isn’t. That’s right. Now, you know that’s right. That’s exactly right. Something’s happened. Here not long ago, a man come to me…I had a man to drive a truck over here, right to California too. And I hope that person’s setting here again. I really…Not to be smart…If I do, if I say it that way, I ought to be down here repenting. But I’m only saying it so that you can see what God’s Word says about it. I hired an old sinner to bring my truck over here with some books and things in it, and the man happened to find him out there behind the truck smoking a cigarette. He said, “Brother Branham, do you know that that man smoked a cigarette?” I said, “He’s a sinner. I had to pick him up just in a few minutes to drive it over here.” He said, “Well, I’ll tell you, don’t you never do that again. Our people are holiness people.” I said, “I know it, brother.” And I said, “I’m going to get rid of him right now, just as soon as I get somebody to take the truck for me.” He said, “Well, don’t you never do that again.” I said, “I know it.” But I knowed right then he was gagging at a gnat and swallowing a camel. That’s right.

5. IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL? — 1963-06-30

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• ¶19c–¶23 Bring them in, bring them in, Bring the little ones to Jesus. I don’t know better hands to put them in. Do you? The hands of the Lord Jesus! Now, I know it’s hot out there. I want to say to the janitor, my brother, Doc, or other, them takes care of it. Some of the sisters are ruining their skirts on the—on the grease that’s on the chair. How many got some of it on them? I know, there’s my wife, my two daughters, little Betty Collins, Mrs. Beeler, some of them. It’s something, grease on there. If you take a look at it, Doc, when you can. It’s, I believe, it’s where they…It’s grease or paint, or something, right where they work up and down, the seats. And it isn’t? [Brother Edgar “Doc” Branham says, “There’s no grease on them, to get it off from.”—Ed.] Well, I—I don’t know what it is, then. Something I just…Is mentioned to me, and I said I’ll mention it to—to Doc. All right. Now, Wednesday night prayer meeting. Is any other? You’ve announced? You got your announcements in, Brother Neville? Announcements all in. Now, if the Lord willing, next Sunday morning, I want to speak on the subject of indicting this generation for crucifying Christ. You say, “This generation couldn’t have done it.” We’ll find out whether they did, or not, according to the Word. Now, next Sunday morning, if the Lord is willing. If, now, if—if—if something occurs… I’m supposed to be in Houston this week, also, in a convention, that take me through Sunday, so I don’t know whether I’ll be able or not. But we got a couple more Sundays to play on, before it, anyhow. Then we go to Chicago for the convention, or meeting in Chicago, the last week in this month. And then I have to take the family back to Arizona, for—for their vacation is over and the kiddies has to go back to school.

• ¶230–¶232 Look at their congregation of bobbed-haired women, and they know the Bible condemns it. Look going down the street, at their own church members going down the street, with shorts on, and they know the Word is against it. But they haven’t got the nerve to call out against it. But, yet, the man professing to be a Christian, his soul within him cries out against it, but he hasn’t got the nerve. If that ain’t modern Sodom, where is it at? God, give us somebody that’ll cry out against it. That’s right. Like John the Baptist said, “The ax is laid to the root of the tree.” That’s what we need today. Watch. They’re a modern Sodom. Remember. See? The whole land has become a modern Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot again living on over. No…Living it all over, for his honest convictions tells him by the Word that he’s wrong. Look in Chicago, greater Chicago, when them three hundred preachers setting there. And the Lord told me that night what they was going to do. They had a trap set for me. Me, go on over there. I went and told Brother Carlson. I said, “You’ll not have it in that hotel. You’ll have to take it to another place, and it’ll be a green room. And they got a trap set for me, haven’t they, Brother Carlson?” He dropped his head. He set there in my office, few days ago, for me come, Chicago meeting. Said, “I’ll never forget that, Brother Branham.” And I said, “They got a trap set for me. Why, Brother Carlson? Are you afraid to tell me why, you and Tommy Hicks?” They dropped their head. I said, “Tommy, why don’t you go speak?” Said, “I couldn’t do it.” I said, “I thought you said you’d do me a favor.”

6. WHY? — 1961-01-28

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• ¶65–¶66 Women, stop cutting your hair; start living like Christian women. Men, quit the things that you’re doing. The Christian Church should conduct itself like sons and daughters of the King, living godly in this present world. Do you believe that? Let us bow our heads just a moment, now. Would there be someone here that does not know Christ as their Saviour, and would like to be a…to receive this balm in Gilead? Now, I will tell you, doctors’ medicines, sometimes, if—if you fail to take it, you might die. And again, you might get well. But there’s one thing sure. If you refuse this balm of Gilead, God’s medicine for sin, you’re sure to die. You’re just going to die. And remember, it’s not just for one, and then not for the other. It’s for “whosoever will may come and drink from the waters…the fountains of the waters of life freely.” If you’d like to be remembered in closing prayer, would you raise up your hand, say, “Remember me, Brother Branham. I want to be remembered.” God bless you, God bless you, and you, you, you, many around here. Now that’s fine. That’s good. Now, sister, to you with this little boy here, you believe with all your heart, and he will never have another one. All right. You believe. He snapped out of it just that second, you see. God took it off of him, when he was beating his little face, and trying to get him to wake up. Feel better, sonny? Sure. Now you’ll be all right. Just believe and it’ll never come again. God, what can wash away my sins? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. Christ, the great Healer, the great Physician is near. See, it’s…There is a balm in Gilead for the sin-sick soul. There’s a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.

7. GOD PERFECTING HIS CHURCH — 1954-12-04

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• ¶29–¶30 Here not long ago, I was in a meeting where there’s supposed to be holiness people, sanctified holiness people. And a minister come along, he said, “I want to introduce you to my wife.” I said, “Thank you.” And he give me that woman, and she…I shook her hand. She had great big long things hanging down like this, come plumb to her shoulders. A little old…About enough clothes on to wad a musket shotgun, and all kinds of paint all over her face. That’s right. He said, “This is my wife.” I said, “Is she a Christian?” “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, she’s a saint.” You know what I said? Not for a joke, I said, “She looks like a haint to me, instead of a saint.” I said, “But I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but what she need is a good old fashion Calvary’s washing.” Hallelujah. That’s what the Church needs today. Yes, sir. That might make you a little bit sick, but it won’t do you no good if it don’t. See? I was a little boy, lived out on a farm. We didn’t have much to eat. We’d bake our corn pone in a—up in the south there, and black-eyed peas and—and would use bacon grease, where you just rendered out the lard out of the bacon grease, and skins, where they’d give us at the grocery store. A big bunch of little children, ten of them, we had a hard time. And every Saturday night, we’d have to take a bath in the old washtub, and take a dose of castor oil. And my mother…I just—I can’t even stand the stuff yet. So, I’d have to hold my nose. And I’d say, “Mama, it just makes me so sick I can’t stand it.” She said, “Honey, if it doesn’t make you sick, it doesn’t do you any good.” So, maybe I’ll tie that to this tonight. If it doesn’t make you right good and sick, it won’t do you any good. It’ll help your spiritual digesting, give you an old fashioned cleaning up, so you can have a spiritual, gastronomical jubilee some of these times. Amen. And you know that’s the Gospel truth.

8. THE FAITH THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS — 1953-11-29

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• ¶95–¶99 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. That’s right. A real true-blooded man won’t permit such stuff as that. That’s right. Brother, that may be hard to digest, but if it is, take it, ’cause it’s good for you. Amen. That’s exactly right. I tell you, a real red-blooded man… My wife may do it sometime. When she does, that’s the day she leaves the Branham home. That’s exactly right. I wouldn’t permit it. By the grace of God, I couldn’t permit it. That’s right. And when men will stand up… Excuse me. That thing’s got more voice than I have. But look. I’m not excited. I know where I am. I know what I’m talking about too. Now, look. That’s right. This little ol’ girl started across the floor hollering, “Tootle-dee, doodle-dee,” and when this…she said…They was going to have some kind of old barn swing dance, or something or other, and she got down there to—to the radio, and she throwed a kiss to that guy through the radio. So excited she didn’t even know I was at the door. She said, “Tootle-loo, honey. I’ll see you out there tonight.” And I thought, “Yeah, it’s true, you’ll be there. No doubt at all. You’ll be there.” And she walked over, she kept going around the floor hollering, you know, like she was dancing. She said, “Oh, excuse me.” She said, “I just love to donce so well.” I said, “I noticed it.” And—and she said—she said, “Oh, I just love it.” I said, “I—I believe that.” I said, “Here’s your change.” And—and I went on back, and I was coming down a pole.

9. THE LAMB AND THE DOVE — 1956-09-17

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• ¶18–¶19 They were sad, but they noticed this one young man how he walked with his chest out and his chin up. You didn’t have to whip him. He was up and doing, and the broker said, “I’d like to buy that slave.” The plantation owner said, “He’s not for sale.” He said, “Why, have you…What makes him so much different than the other slaves?” And he said, “Is he the boss over them?” The owner said, “No, he’s just a slave.” Said, “Perhaps you feed him better than you do the others.” He said, “No, he eats out in the galley with the rest of them.” Said, “What makes him so much different?” Said, “I didn’t know myself till one day I learned, that over in the homelands where he came from, his father is the king of the tribe. And though he’s an alien and a pilgrim, he keeps the morale of the rest of them up, because he knows that he’s the son of the king though he is an alien. What kind of people should we be, Holy-Ghost filled, though we are, pilgrims and strangers. How ought we to conduct our lives and selves, not like the rest of the world, but separate ourselves from the things of the world. Keep our chin up, as it was, because there’s one thing we know: We are sons and daughters of the King. Now, a king’s daughter doesn’t act immorally, and she doesn’t dress that way. She represents herself to the public in her dignity, because she’s a king’s daughter. Amen. So there’s a man when he is the king’s son…There’s the way back to the Azusa Street experience: Conduct ourselves as sons and daughters of God, not dress like the world, act like the world, and talk like the world, stay home on Wednesday night to see the—all these programs and so forth that Hollywood’s putting on. We have nothing to do with Hollywood. We are borned again Pentecostal experience. Hollywood has its place of entertainment. We have our place of entertainment. Theirs is in the world and ours is in Christ. But we can’t pattern after them; let’s pattern after Christ, and act like Him and love Him.

10. A TESTIMONY ON THE SEA — 1962-07-20

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• ¶38–¶40 Now, simple, trying to make it simple, keep it that way. Here not long ago, a very fine religious man, with a great standing in this nation, and he called me into his room, and he said, “Reverend Branham, I want to say something to you.” And I said, “Yes, sir. Say on.” And he said, “I admire you as a servant of Christ, and that I believe you are.” A TESTIMON Y ON THE SEA I said, “Thank you, sir. I can pay the compliments to you.” We were two different ideas, but yet we recognize one another as servants of Christ. He said, “I brought you in here to pray for you.” “Thank you, sir.” I said, “I certainly need it.” And he said, “I want to ask you something.” Said, “Why don’t you quit picking on them people?” I said, “What do you mean, sir?” Said, “You’re going on to them women about bobbing off their hair, wearing immoral clothes, and their husbands, how little they are to let their wo-…wives do such things, and carrying on like that.” Said, “The people regard you as a prophet.” I said, “Did you ever hear me say I was?” He said, “No, but the people regard you as that.” Said, “You see, you ought to be teaching those people how to receive great spiritual gifts, and be lifted up, and have heavenly things like that, and great manifestations of the Spirit. You ought to be teaching that, instead about their bobbed hair, and wearing clothes the way they do.”

11. FAITH — 1958-03-15

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• ¶35–¶36 And, brother, if we’re living in the end time, we’re alien here to this formalism and all kinds of things that’s in the world, and we’re in a world’s slavery and darkness. The Christian church should conduct itself like real genuine borned again sons and daughters of God. We should have that characteristic about us, for our Father is the King of glory, and we are His subjects though we are in a sinful world. He is the King of glory. Let us bow our heads just a moment. Blessed Lord, oh, we see the shadows falling, the hour is swiftly approaching. Yonder in Russia tonight is a bunch of missiles hanging. Only just one drink of vodka and we would go into powder. And it’s in the hands of sinful men. And You said in the Bible, “As it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man. They were eating, marrying, building, drinking, giving in marriage, building houses, marrying wives,” and a very day like this. And we see the shadows hanging yonder. It could happen before morning. Just one touch of a trigger and we would be no more. And it wouldn’t, not in any way, take the Scriptures out of order. And then if that is so close, yet, we know that before the rain could ever fall, Noah went in the ark. And before fire ever fell in Sodom, Lot went out. And if the end time is so close to destruction, how close is the coming of the Son of God for His church? How should we conduct ourselves, Lord? As slothful, educated, scholarly, or should we be men and women of faith with the attributes of our Father?

12. THINGS THAT ARE TO BE — 1965-12-05

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• ¶73–¶74 Someone got after me; a great, noted minister, not long ago. Said, “Brother Branham, come. I want to lay hands on you.” Said, “You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “What?” Said, “Bawling them people out like that.” I said, “I’m telling the…” Said, “I believe that.” Said, “I’m a Pentecostal, too. I believe that women shouldn’t wear short hair, shouldn’t wear paints, and these things like that the way they do, paint their faces up.” Said, “They shouldn’t do that. But,” said, “God called you to pray for the sick.” I said, “He called me to preach the Gospel.” Yeah. And he said, “I believe in that. But,” said, “you think that?” I said, “Yeah. Look what you got, all these big programs, televisions, and everything else. I ain’t got nothing but God to answer to.” That’s right. I said, “I don’t have nothing but God to answer to.” He said, “I—I—I…You’re going to ruin your ministry.” I said, “Any ministry that the Word of God will ruin, ought to be ruined.” That’s right. Certainly. That’s exactly. He said, “Well, you’re going to ruin it.” I said, “Who is going to tell It then? See? Somebody has got to say It. Somebody has got to stand for that what’s Truth, no matter what It hurts.” And friends, as Christian, as people that believe we’re going to Heaven, the Holy Spirit Itself will type us in the Word of God. He said, “You know what you ought to do?” Said, “People believe you to be a prophet.” Said, “You ought to be teaching these women how to get gifts of prophecy and things like that, and great, higher things instead of little thing.”

13. BE NOT AFRAID — 1961-03-11

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• ¶206–¶209 The owner said, “I wondered for a long time, too. But one day I found out that his father, over in the homeland, is the king of the tribe, and though he’s an alien, away from home, he still knows he’s the son of a king, and he conducts himself like one.” If that would make a Negro, knowing his father is a king in Africa, to conduct himself among his people as a king’s son, what ought it to do to you and I that’s borned again of the Spirit of God? What kind of a life ought we to be? What kind of a way should we conduct ourselves? Not as a weakling, and back off, and be tossed about by everything, and halfway believing, and things of the world and galloping in. Stick up our heads towards Calvary, and believe every Word God said and every promise, and conduct ourselves like men and women of God. Don’t dress like these Jezebels, and act like them here. That’s right. Don’t you do that, it’s pitiful. There’s only one woman ever painted herself to meet God, uh, to, never to meet God, in the Bible there’s only one woman ever used paint, and that was Jezebel, God fed her to the dogs. So, you see, she’s just dog meat to begin with, so that—that, in the sight of God, so just remember, brother. Oh, women, men, straighten up! You men, how can you stand it? How would you let your wife smoke cigarettes, and get out on the street and act like that? What’s the matter? You’ve gone off with the church.

14. GOD MAKING HIS PROMISE — 1956-12-09

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• ¶61–¶62 “What can we do, Brother Branham?” Just become a lamb again. When you become a lamb, the dove will come right down and live with you. She hasn’t gone very far, friend. She just took her flight and flew up there on the roost somewhere. She’s ready to come back if you’re ready to come back. You say, “Well, Brother Branham, I remember when John Wesley meetings, I’ve read of it, when he first come over here…” Now, this is to you Methodists. What do think John Wesley would do today if he knowed you Methodists was acting the way you’re doing? When in the church, the way you do… When John Smith, when he was preaching one of his last sermons, he said, “Oh, I don’t know…” He only preached a short one, four hours. And they had to pack him to the pulpit. And he said, “I don’t know what’s going to happen.” Said, “You know the daughters of the Methodist church is even wearing rings on their fingers.” What would he say today to see the choir members in shorts? See? There you are. And you Baptists, my own church, shame on you, out here running around with the rest of the world: dress, act, look and dog with the world just like the rest of them, like dog-eat-dog. And John Smith when he prayed and cried until his wife would have come get him to the room and feed him his breakfast from the swelling of his eyes…What do you think he’d do if he could look at a Baptist church today? My, what a disgrace.

15. STRAIT IS THE GATE — 1959-03-01

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• ¶154b–¶156 You’re making yourself a more a candidate for it, when you do that. That’s true. “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there will be that will find it.” Let’s pray. Lord, oh, search me, Lord. Try my case right now, Lord. Don’t let me have to come before judgment before You, after preaching this way. Oh, if there be any unclean thing in me, Lord, take it away, please! We see a day that we’re living in, when men and women are becoming so starchy. They’re shamed. You said one time, “There’s no even blush amongst the daughters of Zion.” Their modesty has been so taken away till they don’t even blush no more. O Lord, think of it! And know that the timepiece yonder is beating away, just a minute or two more, and the great destruction will come, then let him that’s filthy be filthy still. God, wake us all up this morning. Shake us, Lord! We see the signs appearing. We got our eyes open to know that. We see millions, millions, Lord, that’s turned their back and gone away. I wonder, what can I do, what can I do, O Lord? Is there anything, Lord? If it takes more preaching, more prayer, more anything, help me, Lord, that I might bring the Message to the people. What can I do? But they continually turn It down. You do Your great signs and perform Your wonders, and yet the people march right on. Is it Your Scripture must be fulfilled, is it the time that “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him, and all that the Father has given Me will come to Me”? Lord God, grant this morning that people will wake up and see this last sign of the earth. I pray, God, that You’ll grant something to the people.

16. BELIEVEST THOU THIS? — 1951-10-03

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• ¶46b–¶47 And she turned around and she said, “Are you Brother Branham?” I said, “Brother, did you say that was a saint?” Said, “Yes, Brother Branham.” I said, “She looks like a haint to me instead of a saint.” ’Course she could’ve. I said…Oh, what we need today is a cleaning up in the church. Hallelujah. Old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost back in the church, instead of so much of this creed and carrying on we have. Amen. Walked down on the beach there and there laid them women professed to have the Holy Ghost, laying out there, stretched out before men in bathing suits. Hmm. Brother, this might make you vomit, but let me tell you something. I’ve got a girl coming on myself. I said, “What are you doing, lady.” I said, “Isn’t that—your father a minister?” Said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well…” Said, “I’m getting a suntan.” I said, “If my girl ever stretches herself out like that, she’s going to get a sun tanning, but it is going to be Charlie Branham’s son, give her a tan with a barrel slat and bring her home.” That’s right. I’d tan her. She’d…Well, she’d remember it a long time too. Amen. Going down like that…Oh, it’s just how they got. You let down the bars. An old Methodist preacher was preaching not long ago, he sang this song. He said: We let down the bars; We let down the bars; We compromise with sin; We let down the bars; The sheep got out, But how did the goats get in? You let down the bars, that’s what was the matter. Amen.

17. DEDICATION OF BUILDING, TO THE LORD — 1959-07-08

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• ¶53–¶56 And then cedar wood speaks of the cross, the cross, cedar wood, is white and got red streaks in it, and the white speaks of the righteousness of the cross, and the red speaks of the Blood that made it righteous. The cross was a curse, “Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree.” The cross was a curse until the Blood of Jesus Christ poured down it, then we embrace it to our hearts, for it’s the righteousness of God. It was the red that’s in the cedar wood that makes the white righteous. Cedar wood should be burnt with it. Then hyssop would be throwed in with the scarlet, cedar wood, and hyssop. Hyssop is nothing but common weeds, meaning that the Gospel must never be taught by doctor, Ph.D.’s, it must be taught in humility, just as humble as the weeds is before you. The Gospel is never to be made complicated to the people, it’s to be humble. It was the hyssop that they dipped in the lamb’s blood that went over the lintel of the doorpost in Israel. Hyssop, weeds, just common weeds, making the humility of the Gospel of the Waters of Separation, because the Waters of Separation is the Word of the living God. They were to be burned together: the heifer, the scarlet, the cedar wood, and the hyssop, all burnt together. And the ashes was to be kept in the outer court by…in a holy place. God, let this sink deep in the hearts: The Word of God has no right to be preached out of an unholy mouth. It should not be preached out of a mouth of a man that would say that Jesus Christ was once one thing, and now something else. It must be preached by a power of the living God through sanctified lips that’s dedicated to the service of the Lord.

18. THIRSTING FOR LIFE — 1957-07-28

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• ¶47–¶48a Someone else would say, “Remember me, Brother Branham, in prayer. God, I’m a—I want to accept You just now, accept Your Son as my personal Saviour.” Would you put up your hand, someone else on the bottom floor? God bless you back there, my brother. Somebody… God bless you over here, my brother. God bless you down here, brother. God bless you back there, brother. That’s good. Back over to my right, the Lord bless you, back here. Somebody else now would raise your hand and say, “Brother Branham, remember me in prayer just now”? As we’re just about to close the service, say, “Remember me, I want to here accept Christ as my personal Saviour.” Would you raise your hand, saying, “Remember me, Brother Branham”? That’s right. God bless you, sister. God bless you, sister. I know there’s plenty of them in here. Would you just put up your hand? You can do that much. On the bottom floor now, will you do it before we go to the balconies? Been about fifteen. God bless you back there. I see your hand. God bless you. God bless you, my brother back there. That’s good. “Oh, Brother Branham, I know I go to church, but I—I…” God bless you, sister here. God bless you here, lady. “I go to church, but I—I know—I know I’m not right. And I want to be right. God knows I want to be right.” Will you put up your hand? The balconies to my right, someone up there say, “Brother Branham, remember me”? God bless you, young man. God bless you, lady. Someone else say…God—God bless you, lady. That’s good. “Remember me, Brother Branham, just now in prayer, as you go to prayer. I believe in you.” God bless you, brother. I now want to raise my hand and say, “I believe in Jesus Christ, and, Brother Branham, remember me in prayer. Just before you leave this building tonight, won’t you do it?” Put up your hand, and I’ll certainly do it, that God will see you. Won’t you do it? Up here’s the balcony to the right. Just one more time across. God bless you, sir, right here. I see your hand.

19. HEAR YE HIM — 1960-08-06

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• ¶120–¶123 Said, “What makes him so much different from the rest of them? My, he’s just up and at it! You don’t have to whip him, he’s right at the job all the time.” Said, “Why is it?” He said, “I wondered, too, till I found out.” Said, “Over in the homeland his father is the king of the tribe, and yet he’s an alien away from home, but he still knows he’s the son of a king, and he conducts himself like one.” Hallelujah! That’s what the Pentecostal church ought to do, yet, we are made fun of and called every kind of a name that could be, we ought to conduct ourselves like sons and daughters of God, because God is our King. Women ought to dress and act like ladies, men ought to be men, ought to be sons and daughters of God, our character, our testimony ought to stand high in the city. Bible said that “You are the salt of the earth.” The salt is the savour if it contacts. Put salt here, and meat there, will never save the meat, you’ve got to put the salt and meat together. And salt creates a thirst, I tell you what we need tonight is to be so salty, till we make men and women thirst to be like you. Go on, say, “There, if there ever was a Christian, I don’t go to her church, but she’s really a Christian. There is a man, I don’t go to his church, I go to another church, but if there ever was a Christian, there’s one of them.”

20. THIRST — 1965-09-19

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• ¶255–¶256 [Brother Branham hums Jesus, the Light of the World—Ed.] Worship God with everything you have. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all. Oh, when the sun refuse to shine, When the sun refuse to shine, Lord, I want to be in that number When the sun refuse to shine. Do you love that? Now I wonder if you got your feet converted, you don’t dance anymore, out there for the world? See? Let’s pat our feet, to the Lord, to the Lord. You, is your hands converted, you don’t steal anymore? Your lips are converted, you don’t lie anymore? Just don’t get religion in your head, get it all over you. That’s it. It takes the whole man. That’s right. Now let’s pat our feet. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh, when the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Now let’s just raise our hands. When the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, O Lord, I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. When they crown Him Lord of all, When they crown Him Lord of all, Lord, I want to be in that number When they crown Him Lord of all.

21. THE SEAL OF THE ANTICHRIST — 1955-03-11

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• ¶62–¶63 We have time for everything else, no time for prayer meetings. The home’s all butchered up, and the girls and boys are out going around, larking around over the country, and mother’s and father’s unconcerned, and yet Pentecostal. What we need tonight, is a home altar in the house, a place where God where the Bible’s read and children are taught the Word of the living God. Yes, sir. Run up-and-down the platform in little dresses that looks like there’s so tight, the skin’s on the outside, running up and down. I’m not saying that for a joke. I’m not joking; this is the Gospel truth. That’s right. Yes, sir. Run up-and-down the platforms like that, and dancing in the spirit, and speaking in tongues, and earrings and paint all over their faces, their hair all manicured and bobbed up like that, and then call themselves Christians… Here not long ago, a man wanted to introduce me to his wife, a great holiness organization. Said, “My wife is going to play the piano tonight, Brother Branham.” And I looked at her, and the woman…I ain’t making fun of the woman; I don’t believe in doing that. I’m only telling what’s the truth. And I want you to receive it in the same way of love. I have to be stern once in a while. Yes, sir. And the woman had a dress on, and if I’d see my wife like that, I’d divorce her. And that’s exactly the truth. I wouldn’t…I’d put her away, out there like that, and paint all over her face, and I said, “Is she a Christian?” Oh, said, “She’s a saint.” I said, “She looks a haint to me.” That’s right, to see something like that. I don’t mean it joking. But that’s the truth. A little old Jezebel, painted up… Only woman ever painted her face to meet men was—was Jezebel, and God fed her to the dogs. That’s right. So it’s just a dog meat to begin with; so forget it. Come back to the altar, and God will make you wash your face and get right.

22. EXPECTATION — 1961-02-05

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• ¶102–¶106 Let’s conduct ourselves: Women, don’t be like the world, don’t dress like the world, don’t be these modern things, and all this stuff that they’re doing, keep away from it, you’re a daughter of a King. Gentlemen, you brethren, you don’t have to be beat down and pushed off to the corner, you’re sons of King. Yes, stand up, throw your chest out, meet it. Certainly it is. We are expecting God to do something for us. He can’t do nothing for us when we’re just all drooping around like we, something about half dead. He wants a lively church. He wants the—the members in there to be lively stones built up in the house of faith. Believe Him, accept Him, taking His Word. Now, you say, “Well, I have a great reputation, Brother Branham. I’m a businessman. I play cards at my society.” I don’t care what you have, brother, there’s not a greater society in the world than the society of Jesus Christ, and you’ll never join into it. You say, “Well, I’m a member of a church.” There’s only one Church, only one Way, one Gate, that’s Jesus Christ. He that enters any other way is same as a thief and a robber. And by one Spirit we’re all baptized into that Body. That’s right and we’re brethren. Yes, sir. And we are sons and daughters of the King; we ought to conduct ourselves. Our reputations is nothing on the earth; what it wants to be: in Heaven, where we want our—our stand to be, before God.

23. PRESUMING — 1962-01-17

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• ¶77–¶80 And you, we look down upon them, and we think they ought to be taught different. But we in America are just as bad, and, if anything, worse off. It’s true. We presume. We take it for granted. We venture anywhere without the actual authority of doing it. There’s no authority in the Bible for a Christian to drink, gamble, lie, carouse. People join these churches and go right on just the same. They join these churches. Women cut their hair, wear shorts, smoke cigarettes, sure, go right on. They think that’s all right. They presume it’s all right. But it’s not all right. It’s not all right. By a million miles, it’s not right. God’s Word don’t support it. It’s contrary to it, but they presume it’s all right. Somewhere out here at the West Coast. Now, this isn’t over on the Presbyterians now. This is the Pentecostals, and a great fine church, wonderful organization, but they’ve so got away from the Word. This lady wore long hair. She had it done in a little round thing on the back of her head. And, they, they’d go around to her, say, “Hey, your tire is flat, in the back.” They…And all of them made fun of her. Even the pastor told her she should have her hair cut because it was different. She asked me. She said, “Brother Branham, what about it?” I said, “He told you something wrong.” Our Pentecostal sisters does the same thing, like the world. Someone said, other day, said, “Brother Branham, people regard you as a prophet. Why in the world don’t you teach those people how to get spiritual gifts? Leave off of the way them women dress and those men act. Leave off of it. You got no business saying it. Teach them great, deep, spiritual things.”

24. HEBREWS, CHAPTER SEVEN 1 — 1957-09-15

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• ¶34–¶36 He was with the children in the wilderness, coming out of Egypt, in the form of a Light. He spoke to Abraham in the form of a Man. He spoke to Moses in the form of a Man. He spoke to the Church in the form of a Man, His Son, Christ Jesus. And He is speaking through His Church today, through the anointed Church of the living God, through vessels of clay. “Ye are the branches. I am the Vine.” God is still speaking, and the world sees Jesus as you present Him. That’s how the world see…“You are written epistles, read of all men.” Your life tells what you are. Now, this Abraham on his road, returning back. We’re going to go back and read about him just a few moments, in the Book of Genesis. In the 14th chapter of Genesis, I believe it is. Oh, how beautiful the story is here! Now, we all know of Abraham, how that God called him out of the land of Chaldea and the city of Ur, and told him to separate himself from his associates. God calls men or women, He calls a separation. Now, that’s what’s the trouble with the churches today, they don’t want to separate themselves from the old carnal belie-…unbelievers. That’s why we can’t go any further. We just get in that one carnal flow, and we—we say, “Oh, Jim is a good guy, if he does drink. If he…And I go with him to the poolroom, but I don’t play pool. I—I—I go with her over to the party. They tell dirty jokes, and so forth, but I don’t tell any.”

25. THY LOVINGKINDNESS — 1958-02-28

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• ¶45–¶50 That’s the way the preaching of the Gospel is, if it don’t stir up your innermost being, it don’t do you much good. Pentecostal Christian women out on the street with slacks on! Do you know, lady, that the Bible said that a woman that will put on any garment that pertains to a man, it’s an abomination? And little ol’ clothes on, shorts, and you get out in the yard just when the men are coming home from work. Do you realize that’s devil possession? Listen, lady, you wear these little ol’ dirty clothes that they sell in these stores, sexy-looking, you might be as pure as a lily to your husband, but if you dress like that, and get on the street, and a sinner looks at you, you are guilty of committing adultery with that sinner, and at the Judgment Bar you’ll answer for it. Jesus Christ the blessed Son of the living God said, “Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her in his heart.” When that sinner answers for committing adultery, you are the one he committed it with. “Why,” you say, “that’s his fault.” It’s your fault for presenting yourself like that. “Oh,” you say, “but, Brother Branham, they don’t sell no other kind of clothes but them.” Well, they still sell sewing machines and goods. I know that’s old- fashioned, but it’s what the world needs today. God hates sin, but He loves the sinner. People just can’t take it, that’s all. You say, “What about the men?”

26. BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE — 1962-06-12

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• ¶22–¶24 I was in a—a Lutheran college, Bethany, where I’d been called on the carpet, oh, my, just digging me up, he’s the one, called me a polished-up soothsayer, and then the Lord kind of got after him about it a little bit, you know, and so he called me up to apologize. We went down into a basement where they set a nice big dinner, and he said to me, he said, “Brother Branham, I just want to ask you some questions. First, I’m sorry I said what I said in that letter.” I said, “That’s all right, I never even thought no more about it.” He said, “I want you to tell me, what in the world…? Are we Lutherans in the race?” I said, “Sure.” He said, “What—what—what have we got?” I said, “You got the Spirit of God.” And I said, “You know…” They, for the students who couldn’t pay their way through, so, they had about a thousand acres there of corn, so they just worked their way through. So they…He said…I said, “A man one time planted a corn crop, and he went out, and the next morning there was two little leaves sticking up, he said, ‘Praise the Lord for my crop of corn!’” I said, “Now, Brother Hegre, did he have a crop of corn?” He said, “Well, not yet.” I said, “Potentially he did, didn’t he?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “That was you Lutherans.” I said, “By and by, them two little blades growed up, and after while it made a tassel, that was the Methodist. They looked back down and said, ‘There’s no more use for you, you’re just a leaf, I’m a tassel.’

27. COUNTDOWN — 1962-09-09

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• ¶65–¶67 But there was a people who achieved it. Hallelujah! You see where I’m getting to. There was somebody knowed what “justified” meant in the sight of God, “having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” There was some of those Lutherans who were loyal. They believed It. No matter what the Catholic church said, they believed God’s Word and stood on It because the messenger of that age preached “the just shall live by faith,” and they believed in a justified state. And they was able by the grace of God to achieve justification, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, we notice again, along came the Methodists with sanctification. There was many of those Methodists was actually sanctified. Now, there’s a lot of them claimed it and know nothing about it. The Methodist church taught sanctification. They said they got down and cried and got back up, said, “Glory to God, I’m sanctified!” And they went right on living like they always did. But some of those man and women was actually sanctified from the things of the world, and live a consecrated, set-aside life. Why? That was the automobile age which took in more horsepower. Automobile, the old T-model was probably fifteen or twenty horsepower. See, had fifteen or twenty horses bottled up in a little engine like that. Sanctification! When science achieved something by—by—by the natural, God is achieving something by the spiritual. See, something’s going on all the time. And then after the sanctified age… Now, we take man like old Bevington. Man, who would have been a greater man than old Brother Bevington? And look at John Wesley, George Whitefield, Finney, Knox, many of those old Methodists who sweated it out. They went through hell on earth, torment, because they believed that God’s Word taught sanctification, the second step of grace, and they stayed with it, and they believed it, and they done wonders with it. Just the same as Henry Ford and them done with the transportation of the old model-T Ford up the side of the horse, he moved on and above the horse day. And Wesley moved on in above the Lutheran day.

28. THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL — 1956-09-02

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• ¶146–¶151 God help us to have men that’s free from every bondage, free from everything, that they could preach the Word without compromising, and call black “black,” and white “white.” My, friend, are you a Christian, tonight? Are you saved? Do you know you’re saved? We’re at the end of the road. And some of these nights, it’s going to be too late. He’ll come. And the Rapture might be at any time. While we have our heads bowed, is there someone would raise up your hand and say, “Brother Branham, remember me in prayer tonight. I want to purpose in my heart, from this night on, I’ll never serve the world no more”? Would you raise your hand? “I’ll quit my smoking. I’ll quit my dancing. I’ll quit my meanness of the world.” God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady. Someone else? God bless you, sir. God bless you, buddy. Bless you, here on the end, brother. Bless you back there, little lady. Someone else raise your hand, say, “By God’s grace, tonight, I realize I’m in Babylon. I realize that the condition that we’re in. I hear it blasted everywhere, Brother Branham, and I know we’re at the end of the road. I now raise my hand to Christ Jesus, and ask Him to be merciful to me. And I purpose in my heart, from this night on, to stop all the filthy things that I have been doing, and serve the Lord.” God bless you, lady. God bless you, sir. God bless you. Someone else, raise your hand, say, “I now refrain from all the things of the world. And I now serve the Lord, from tonight on.”

29. FIVE DEFINITE IDENTIFICATIONS OF THE TRUE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD — 1960-09-11

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• ¶23–¶29 Jesus knowed He’d fall heir to them, in the Millennium, so He said, “Get thee hence, Satan.” He knew that God would give Him all of the kingdoms, and they would be His, and they’ll all be one Kingdom. When you go into Germany, you find a German spirit. You go into England, you find an English spirit. You go into Sweden, you find a Swedish spirit. You go into France, you find a French spirit. You come into America, you find American spirit. I stopped at Sant’Angelo, at Rome, some time ago, and wanted to see the catacomb. And to my surprise, and to a rebuke, as an American, standing before the catacomb gate where you entered in, said, “To the American women: Please put on clothes and honor the dead before entering here.” When a nation sinks that low, it’s terrible, when we get to that place. So you see, because… I asked a woman one time, “Are you a Christian?” She said, “I’m an American. Of course, I am.” That has nothing to do with it. Brother Bosworth asked one, one night, said, “Are you a Christian, sister?” Said, “I’ll give you to understand, I burn a candle every night.” Like that had anything to do with Christianity, burning a candle. Christianity doesn’t consist of such things as that. And the Church of God doesn’t consist of such makeup as that. Now, what makes the women…We never compel them women to do that. We never compel our men not to drink, not to swear. We just preach the Gospel, and lay down the pattern of the Bible. Many men that comes to the Pentecostal faiths and the holiness faiths, come in and profess to be, when they’re not, in their heart. Many women does the same thing. We don’t tell them they have to do it. We just give them the pattern. Tell them what the Bible says, and if they are born of a Heavenly Spirit, then their spirit is no more Americanized, it’s no more Germanized. It’s Heavenly-ized, where, the Kingdom of God. Because, we are in another Kingdom, a Kingdom of God, where decency, holiness, and power exists.

30. COMMUNION — 1965-12-12

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• ¶45–¶47 I was saying this, taking for myself, like you was going to say, “William Branham, well, forty years ago, the William Branham, it isn’t the same one tonight.” If somebody back there would say, “William Branham, he was a rank rascal,” see, because I was born of Charles and Ella Branham. In their nature I was a sinner, I came to the world, a liar, and all the habits of the world laid right in me. But down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated, was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there. Well, I only catered to one. As it growed, I gooed as a baby, “Dad- da.” First thing you know, I become a liar, become everything else that’s a sinner, because I raised up that way. But down in there was a little speck of Life all the time. I used to remember, as a little boy…(I hope I’m not holding you too long. But knowing…) Sitting out in the…on—on the creek bank, and I’d sit there and look around at nighttime. Pop and mom, they’re gone on now to their rest. And them days they were sinners, there was no Christianity in our homes at all. And, oh, my, drinking, and parties, and carrying on; it made me sick, I’d take my—my lantern and my dog and go to the woods, to stay all night. In the wintertime I’d hunt till the party was over, maybe daylight in the morning. Come home, wouldn’t be over, I’ve laid on top of a shed and sleep, waiting for daylight to break.

31. INVESTMENTS — 1963-11-16

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• ¶63–¶66 What a rash thing this young man did when he—he wasn’t interested in such an investment. He had great wealth, we’re told. But the wealth of the world has to perish. What about the young man’s condition today, wonder where he is at? He turned down the opportunity he had. Yet, he was a Christian believer, or a believer, we would say, to be more fundamentally. He was a believer, he was walking in all the light that the law had, and probably a loyal member of some great congregation, but yet knew that he lacked Eternal Life. Now, he had seen something in Jesus that he never saw in other men. He had saw his priests, seen his people, he had seen good men, but there was something special about Jesus Christ. They seen, even the scribes and the soldiers that was sent, and from the temple, to arrest Him, they said, “Never a man spake like this.” He not only spoke as a priest or a—a layman, but He—He had…God backed up what He said. He was… He never wrote no books. We don’t have anything that Jesus ever written, in His life. Only thing we know, He wrote one time on the sand, when a—a little lady in ill fame was brought to Him, then He erased that back out. Why didn’t He write? He was the Word. He was the living proof that there is a living God, His very Life within Him. He said, “If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. Though you cannot believe Me,” ’cause Him being a man, “yet believe the works. Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are that that testifies of Me. They tell you Who I am.” That was a foreign language to many of those clergymen of that day.

32. THE KINSMAN REDEEMER — 1960-10-02

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• ¶1–¶2 Thank you, Brother Neville. The Lord bless you. So good to be back again, this morning, back in the house of the Lord. I believe it was said, one time, “I was happy when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” Charlie, come out behind that post, and come up here and get you a chair. Come on up here. Sister, is there a chair back in there, somewhere, we could squeeze in? Here’s a place right up here, lady. Come right up here. Here, Charlie, come here and sit down by Banks up here, so you won’t have to stand up. Every time that boy comes from way down in Kentucky, gets up here, he stands up every morning. And we’ll get him right up here. Here’s a place here, on the end of the seat here, for someone else. [Brother Neville says, “There’s a lady back here, too.”—Ed.] There’s a lady standing up in the back, back there. Come right up here. Here’s a seat right here, sister, right up close. Come right ahead. And I suppose somebody is in the wheel chair there. Are they? [A sister says, “Brother Branham?”] Yes. [“There’s a seat right here.”] There’s another seat right over here. If someone wants one, back there in the back, right here is a seat right here. [A brother says, “And here is one, Brother Branham.”] Here’s one right up here, also, just suit yourself. [“Another one, over here.”] Yes. You can have one right here. Now, come right on, take your seats. And just feel real…

33. UNITED UNDER ONE HEAD

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• ¶36b–¶39 There’s only one way to endure, that is to put the original Thing that God made that compartment in your heart to be filled with, and that was the Holy Ghost. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] The disciples said one day, said, “Will You at this time restore the Kingdom?” He said, “It is not for you to know the hour the Father has put in His Own mind. But you shall be filled with the Holy Ghost then you will be (not until then), then you’ll be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judaea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world.” My loving friends, may I say this to you tonight? God wants us one, but He wants us one, not under the foolishness of man-head, but He wants us one united under the holy Godhead. United as one person, one man, one woman, one church, one people, one view, one purpose, one motive, one objective, that’s Jesus Christ. One thing, to serve Him, one love, the love of God, one brotherhood, brotherhood of man, one fellowship of the Holy Ghost, then we’re united. That’s where God is building this day, regardless of what the devil does. He’s building a tower, and that tower is made out of a united people, made out of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness. It’s made out of all the born-again people that’s got the baptism of the Holy Ghost in their heart, filling that little apartment, and looking straight to God for deliverance. We’re united then as one. We won’t fuss no more then, we won’t argue no more. We’ll act like men, we’ll dress like men. We’ll dress like women. Sons and daughters of God, our character, our conduct, our faith will prove when God says anything we’ll say amen to it. If the Bible says for us to do certain things we’ll do it. We won’t argue back, we’ll just go and do it. That’s what God wants us united under. Oh, how we ought to act in this present day.

34. THE MARK OF THE BEAST — 1956-07-15

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• ¶209–¶211 And now, upon the sovereign grace of God, upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, and upon the vindication of a worldwide ministry that You have granted to Your unprofitable servant, as an unworthy person, and one who is unable, but a believer, I now challenge this mute spirit in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And with a sincere heart, I say, come out of the man. For I adjure thee, by the living God, that you depart from him that he’ll be well. In Christ’s Name, I challenge thee to come out of the man, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Every eye closed, every head bowed. [Brother Branham claps his hands—Ed.] Hear me? Hear me? You hear me? He’s hearing. Now just keep your head bowed. Say, “Praise God.” [The brother says, “Praise God.”—Ed.] Say, “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Praise God.” [“Praise God.”] Now, you can raise your head. [The brother says, “Raise head.”—Ed.] Raise your head now. “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “I love Jesus.” [“I love Jesus.”] “Hallelujah!” [“Hallelujah!”] Let us say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Let’s give God praise. Let’s stand up to our feet just a minute. Almighty God, Author of Everlasting Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this children. I pray that You’ll anoint them. Give them the desire of their hearts by filling them with the Holy Ghost. Great signs and wonders might be done for the glory of God, through Jesus’ Name. Amen. Now, you be seated. He—he says, through the microphone, he can hear me a little through the microphone.

35. DOOR TO THE HEART — 1958-03-02

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• ¶26–¶27 So, you say, “Now, my private life, now I’ve got own little clique that I hang with, and that’s us and the Joneses, and we just don’t want anybody else fooling with our lives. We have our little bridge party, and—and we, Suzy and I, we showcase shop every Tuesday afternoon and Thursday, and I just don’t want You fooling with that.” “Oh,” you say, “I—I wouldn’t say that, Brother Branham.” But you do it anyhow. “Now, we’ve got our little society down at our church. And we stitch and sew, and sew and stitch, and stitch and sew, and talk about Miss So-and-so, and I—I—I just wouldn’t have anything to interrupt that.” No wonder we can’t have a revival, professed Christians without possessing Christ. “Oh well, I tell you, I’ve thought it all over, but I do smoke cigarettes. I know I oughtn’t to do it.” Well then, stop it! If there’s a question in your mind on anything, don’t do it. Any time there’s a question, you’re wrong. Stop it! Causes more death than anything I know of, cigarettes. “Oh,” you say, “they sell them on the television.” What else do they do on the television? Let me say this with a good, sweet, humble feeling in my heart: A real borned-again Christian knows better than to do it. When I was a little boy, when I first was ordained in the Missionary Baptist Church, I got a little Bible. And people kept saying to me, “Brother Branham, is it wrong to smoke? Is it wrong to drink?” And I was looking at that little Bible the other day, I wrote a little thing in the back, I said, “Don’t ask me foolish questions. Make this up in your mind: If you love the Lord with all your heart, you won’t smoke, chew, or drink any shine.” And I think that’s pretty good to stay by. Questionable…

36. LEADERSHIP — 1965-12-07

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• ¶176–¶179 What if it was that way with the church today, one out of a million? See where it would be? “Strait is the gate and narrow is the Way, and few there’ll be that’ll find It; because broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there’ll be that go in thereat.” “Is that truth, Brother Branham?” I don’t know, but I’m just quoting Scripture. See? Now, you’re ordained to Life. You see It if you’re ordained to see It. If you’re not ordained to see It, you won’t see It. Said, “They have eyes but they can’t see, ears and can’t hear.” How thankful you should be, church! How you should straighten yourself up from these things! How you should be on fire for God! That your eyes beholds what you see, your ears hears the things you see. Leadership! Why did you come here tonight to hear a Message like This? I’m branded across the world, by the churches, as a “fanatic.” Why did you come? The Holy Spirit led you here (see? see?) to listen. Circumcise! Cut away the things of the world, accept the leadership of Jesus Christ, or you’ll perish as sure as the world. You have a choice of conduct. How you conduct yourself, that’s up to you. You have a choice of wife. You go out and take your wife. You want to take a wife, you want to take one that’s complementary to your…to what you want your…plan your future home to be. Could you imagine a man, a Christian man, going out and taking one of these modern Rickettas for a wife? Huh? Could you imagine? What’s the man thinking about? What kind of a home is he going to have if he takes a striptease, a burlesque off of the street out here, a street prostitute? “Oh,” you say, “now, wait a minute.” How does she dress herself? See? See? Wear shorts and things, she’s a street prostitute. “Oh,” you say, “now, Brother Branham!” Oh, them little ol’ tight skirts, look like you’re poured into, street prostitute.

37. HEARING, RECEIVING, AND ACTING — 1960-06-07

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• ¶225–¶230 He said, “Beyond that setting of the sun, there’s a certain state, in the New England states,” and said, “in that certain state is a certain city, and in that certain city, is a certain house, and in that certain house, is a girl, and that girl, I vowed before I come here, to be true to her, that when we…I return, we’re going to be married. She made a vow to me, a promise. Therefore, sir, all of my attention is attracted, as far as it comes to women, towards that girl at that place.” And he said, “I live today, for tomorrow to come.” What a testimony! What a Christian can say: “Why don’t you smoke? Why don’t you have a little fun? Why don’t you do this like the rest of them doing?” Oh, you can say, “Beyond a certain star, there’s a certain City, and in that certain City is a certain Person. Hallelujah! Oh, I live for Him, for He died for me, and someday He’s coming. And I live for that Life that is to come.” Oh, brother, believe me, I tell you the truth, I tell you what is the truth. God knows that I’m telling you the truth. You just believe me with all your heart. Maybe you can’t understand this about the Coming of the Lord, and the carnal church, and so forth. And some of you, right from this state, wrote me a letter and said, “When the anointing is on you, you can discern spirits,” said, “then, course, we, then we believe you’re a prophet.” Now, I never said I was a prophet, you said so. See? But you say, but then you say, “But in your teaching, Brother Branham, about all that fanaticism about receiving the Holy Ghost, and all this stuff, and living, we can’t believe that. And all this other stuff about you were Eternally, before the world, elected, and…”

38. LIFE — 1958-05-19

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• ¶109–¶112 It’s time the church took its position and come out of the things of the world, you know it. It used to be it was wrong for Christian women in the holiness groups to wear short hair. What happened? I can remember when you couldn’t be taken into the church with short hair; it was wrong in the first place, it’s wrong yet. The Bible said that if a woman cuts her hair, her husband has a right to divorce her and get away from her. That’s exactly right. What do you do it for? To follow fashions. Now, you’re not going to like me after this, but at the Judgment Bar, you’re going to find out something: The Bible said if a woman cuts her hair, she dishonors her head, which is her husband, if she’s a dishonorable person, she should be put away. It used to be wrong, but something happened. Holiness women wearing these little bitty ol’ clothes and getting out here in the yards, mowing their yards, walking up and down the streets with shorts on, letting your children do it! Then you say, “God, send us a revival.” How would God ever put a revival on a bunch of filth? Can’t do it. Now you’re going to find out why we haven’t got a revival. Why did you do it? You see, the world begin to seep in. Many people that call themselves Christians will stay home on Wednesday night from prayer meeting to hear this ol’ We Love Susie, or all kind of nonsense like that, instead of going to a church, shows what’s on the inside of you. What you’re thirsting, that’s your character, your conduct.

39. FROM THAT TIME — 1960-07-16

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• ¶83–¶86 And we could go, tonight, into the city, here, and find the most degraded and immoral woman that walks the streets of your lovely little city, here in the valley. And I would set down by her, and I’d say, “Lady, I wish you to tell me your story.” And she would start off; she might say something like this: “Brother Branham, there was a day when I was as pure as a lily. And I could hold my head up amongst the people of renown status; and I could go to church, and feel just fine. But there come a time that one night I was out with a certain boy, and he spiked the—the Coke for me, and from that time…” Or it might be that some other girl friend that was not a believer, that got with her and persuaded her off to a certain dance. And she got in the arms of some boy, and from that time. It’s always marking from a time. Or I might go out here into your city tonight, and find the worst alcoholic that you have. And I would set down by the side of that man, young or old, and I would say to him, “Friend, I would like to ask you something: Why do you throw your life away like this? What makes you drink and do the way you do? when you could be a—a great worker here in the city. You could be a worker in some church, or you could be a real husband to some woman, a father to some children;” or, some drunken woman that could be a—a real mother to some children, a sweet, loving wife to some husband.

40. HEAR YE HIM — 1957-03-22

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• ¶34–¶36 Now, I might hurt you, but I don’t want to. A little while ago among you people, especially you women, it was wrong for you to bob your hair. The Bible teaches that it is absolutely wrong to do it. The Bible said so, and that is the Word. Now, preacher, if you don’t stay with that as God’s son, what does the Holy Spirit say about you before the Father? And it was wrong for you women to wear that manicure, or whatever it is you put on your face. It was wrong for you to do it. So has your pastor backslid or what’s happened to you? The Bible said that they would heap for themselves teachers having itching ears and would be turned from the truth to fables. And I wonder if it hasn’t been just because of a little selfish motive to make our churches bigger, or something and other, or some great big shot come to our church that talk to the pastor and the deacon board, and the preacher didn’t have the real old fashioned experience of the living God, that the deacon board told him they would excommunicate him if he taught against such. And the church now plays the bookie boards, smoke cigarettes, run around; women wear dresses that’s scandalous in the sight of God. Do you know, women, if you dress yourself in a sexy way, and you go on the street with these old dirty Hollywood dresses on, and you go out there; and a sinner looks at you, upon you to lust after you, he has committed adultery with you in his heart. And at the day of judgment when he asked to be—brought the adultery before, who’s going to answer for causing him to commit adultery, but the way you presented yourself to him. That’s right. You dress yourself in these little old tight, dirty clothes. You say, “Well, Brother Branham, they don’t sell nothing else but them.” Well, sister, they sell sewing machines yet, and they got goods. The thing of it is, you’ve let down the bars from the old fashion Gospel that was laid down, the foundations by our Lord Jesus.

41. ELIJAH — 1953-10-18

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• ¶83–¶84 Let me tell you something today, brother, America’s loaded down with that tommyrot. And all they got on the programs, and the radio time, and everything sold as such as that, because they got the sway of the world. That’s right. Why, the Gospel of Jesus Christ ought to be preached in its power; and men and women born again, and come away from such stuff as that, and live for God. Let me tell you something, brother, you say, “Now, Brother Branham, you’re going to teaching about morals.” You just get the old-fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost and you’ll find out what God will do for you. You say, “Will I have to quit smoking, Brother Branham, to get the baptism of the Holy Ghost?” Listen, when springtime comes, we live, here in this country, there’s a lot of little ol’ scrub oak. You know what it is around here. It’s got its leaves all year around. They’re hanging on right now. They’ll hang on till next spring. Now, when springtime comes, you don’t have to go out and pick all the old leaves off. My, just let the new life come up and the old leaf drops off. Just get down here at the altar and stay, Tuesday, until God fills your heart with the Holy Ghost, and you won’t have any more time for that kind of stuff. You won’t have to preach against it or nothing. It’ll take care of itself. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] “I’m…I don’t know what to do.” He said, “I just don’t know what to do.” I said, “What’s the matter, Brother Reidhead?” A man of his position.

42. SPIRIT OF TRUTH — 1963-01-18

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• ¶65–¶67 “When He, the Holy Ghost is come, He will reveal these things that I’ve talked to you about.” Now, there’s no need of trying to figure it out, any other way. He is the Author. He surely ought to know what He wrote. See? The Bible said He wrote It. “Even men of old, moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Word.” And if the Holy Ghost is the Author of the Word, surely He knows how to interpret It better than we do. Let Him do the interpreting of It. And you know how, the way He interprets It? Now, don’t miss these things if you’re coming to a healing service. Look. Don’t miss this. How does He interpret It? By this, by vindicating It, see, making It so. That’s what Jesus said. “Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are the Ones that says Who I am. They are the Ones that speak of Me. And who can condemn Me? Who can accuse Me of sin?” Sin is “unbelief.” “If I don’t do the works that was written of Me, then don’t believe Me. But if I do the works, and you can’t believe Me, then believe the works, because the—the Word spoke of it.” See? That’s just common, everyday sense. Now, God, “Gifts and callings are without repentance.” We know the Bible says that. They do it. It’s been about, almost two years now. I was…One morning I was walking in the—the house, and had set down in a chair. Now, this seems very strange, that God would include an animal. Like some precious brother, on that vision of Heaven, of that little carrying-up I had; I believe I told you about it, once, or some meeting. He wrote me a letter the other day, and said…Business Men’s Voice packed it. Said, “It was…your vision was all right, Brother Branham, your translation. But, listen, it was all right till you said your horse, that you once rode, come put his head on your shoulder.” He said, “There is no horses in Heaven, Brother Branham. Heaven was made for human beings, not horses.” Well, I thought…

43. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 1964-08-30

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• ¶134–¶138 I got that one even this morning. See? It’s one thousand years. All right. Brother Branham, the problem of what… Yeah, I got that. The wheat and the tares, you remember we got that. I believe we’re coming right down now. I may have throwed a bunch of these back. Let’s see. Same thing. Brother Branham, I am a mother of six wonderful children and my husband wants me to go to work for a while to help finance. Should I? Also want to pray to God to grant me faith that… to give me…Abraham and—and…like faith…like Abraham and Daniel and the Hebrew children. Should a Christian raise tobacco? I’ve just went through that. And… 416. Brother Branham, is it wrong for a woman to shave her legs? Am I seeing things? Does that say that? I can’t…I don’t know. I’m going to leave that with you. Is—is this day wrong to limit your family? Did it mean practice complete birth control? I answered that, of course, to the…each individual. Let’s see. If a woman while in sin gets a divorce and remarries and… I answered that. You remember I said, “Leave the divorce cases till…” 417. I have a friend who I love very much. She has had some tapes and letters that I believe that have…never talked to her. Really, I guess I am afraid of destroying her and losing her as a friendship. What should I do? Speak to her in love. I don’t…I believe I answered that, but I— I’d…Don’t—don’t try to push anything on anybody. Just be salty; they’ll long to be like you. Brother, sister, I believe I’ve answered these. Brother Branham, please explain about the five foolish virgins. I—I know I got that one. It’s wrote, and it’s red paper. I believe we’re…I got that one. I believe I have answered all of these. Praise the Lord. Let’s see. Excuse me just a minute. 418. Dear prophet of God, Saint Mark 16:18, I…part of laying hands on the sick…I’m around snake handlers. What about it?

44. THE MESSAGE TO THE LAODICEAN CHURCH — 1958-06-09

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• ¶78–¶83 Now, you say, “Brother Branham, you’re picking on the women.” All right, you men: And any man that’ll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear those kind of clothes, it shows what you’re made out of. You’re supposed to be the ruler of the house. What’s happened? You can’t make American homes…No wonder we got juvenile delinquency! We got parent delinquency, we got church delinquency. Certainly we have. That’s true. Not to hurt you, but to tell you the truth, we got to clean up. Got to have a—a revival and get all the bugs out of the thing before we…God will ever come in. Stand at the door… You say, “You’re interfering with my private life.” There it is. See? Well then, you have a little, another little door called Pride. Oh, my! “Don’t you tamper with that. Now look, Brother Branham, I think it’s so much today.” All right. It’s your private life. You say, “You got no business busting in on my private life.” That’s what you’re telling Christ. I’m talking from the Word, the Word speaks for Itself. That’s right. Private life, “Just me and the Joneses, ” you know, “me and my denomination.” You’ve got no right to draw denominational lines in brotherhood. That’s right. That’s right. You might different on doctrines, and so forth, which is all right. I eat cherry pie, somebody else eats a apple, but we’re eating pie just the same. We got no rights to—to draw lines just because a fellow don’t believe with you, or think, church or denomination with you, so “I’ll pass this. I tell you, I don’t go for them holy-rollers.” If you ever go to heaven you’re going to go with them. That’s right. Sure, there’s going to be plenty of them there.

45. THE CRUELTY OF SIN, AND THE PENALTY THAT IT COST TO RID SIN FROM OUR LIVES — 1953-04-03

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• ¶221–¶221 [Brother Branham continues to quietly pray for the people for two minutes and forty-seven seconds, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.]…?…