God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 6
Wednesday evening
Sunday School?
15 GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP - SHP.LA - V-7
N-4 - 65-1128.1M
Now, I haven't got too much
time for this Sunday school lesson,
and I'm hoarse. Say, Brother Pearry Green done a noble thing. He heard me say, last
night, "I missed my little piece of hair to keep me..." He called out
there and tried to get somebody fly it in for me. I said, "You're too
late, I'm already hoarse." I tried for years to find some accomplishment,
but when I got that, it cured it. But I forgot it this time, so I'm a little
bit hoarse. So you bear with me, if you will, in speaking.
17 GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP - SHP.LA - V-7
N-4 - 65-1128.1M
Now, how many likes Sunday
school? Oh, my, that's right. It's a good thing to send your children to. No,
let me correct that, a good thing to
bring your children to. That's right, to bring your children; you come
also. How many knows how our Sunday school was first originated? Where was it
originated?
I am not so sure that
brother Branham is giving his full hearted approval of Sunday School here. At least not in the way in
which Sunday school is being conducted by most churches. Let me read to
you some of his thoughts on this subject. Because you will see by what he says
that he is not at all for Sunday school in the way that most conduct it. And
toward the end of these comments you will see how it should be conducted if it
is conducted at all.
37 REDEMPTION.BY.POWER --
LVL.KY -- V-25 N-7 -- 54-0329
Then at the last plague that
struck the earth there, or struck
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
Here the other day, me and my
buddy back there was going squirrel hunting, and we got out... And I've used
guns all my life. And we put up a great barricade of steel and everything else
and shot a couple of bullets in there to see if our sights
was in up there in a yard. And they called the police. And they come up
there and said it was dangerous to live in the neighborhood. I said, "I ought to call the police then
and tell them, 'It's dangerous to have them naked women laying out there in
that yard, the people driving up and down the street.'" They know better
than that. Nature itself will tell you better than that. But it's got to a day, they ignore every law of God. They make up their own
man-made fences and serve that way. Brother, we've got nothing in the world but
another
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
There's only one thing and only
one place in the Bible that has ever acted that made a person take off their
clothes and they were devil-possessed. That's right. It's the truth, and it's
no compliment on that--compromising. It's the truth. It's the devil that gets
into those people that makes them strip their clothes off. It's the devil. You
don't mean to be wrong, but woman, it's the devil doing that. It used to be wrong for holiness women to
wear paint on their face. And now, they just gob it in on any way and sing and
shout and praise the Lord like there was nothing to it.
Oh, brother, do you realize
that that's the devil that's a doing that? Purpose in your
heart that you'll live. If it's old-fashion, live old-fashion and serve
the Lord God of the heavens and earth. Purpose in your heart.
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
Notice, how
they'd got away. It used to be wrong for man to drink. Why, that's
popular now. Everywhere you go. In the rooms... I was
in a Sunday school convention not long ago. In the room, the hotel room where
we was staying, the awfullest drunken bunch I ever
got into in my life. And they were riding up and down on the elevators in a
Sunday school convention. And little boys and girls going in the same room
together and staying all night. And their archbishop setting there
permitting it. Brother, they're willfully ignorant. God's Word said
separate yourself from such chaos and muck. In our American nation, it's higher
rate in the...?... than all the rest of the world put
together. No now, we're--we're getting ripe for judgment. You can preach the Bible, and the power of
the Holy Ghost, and the resurrection of Christ, and the signs and wonders will
follow the believer, speak the gifts coming back into the church, the
restoration of all things; and preachers will even laugh at you and say you've
lost your mind. Brother, I've purposed in my heart, regardless of where on
earth has got to stand, if I have to be excommunicated, I'd preach the whole
Bible or none of it at all...?... Certainly. Purpose in your heart to do that which is right, think that which
is holy.
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
I had a little cross hanging
down in front of my car, coming down Sellersburg, the other day. There's was a
man got in the car. He said, "Billy, I want to ask you a question."
He said, "Did you know that's Catholic?" I said, "What?" Said, "The cross."
I said, "Oh, no. When did the Catholics ever have the option on the
cross?"Amen. I said, "That's an emblem of
Christian faith." I said, "Catholicism is worshipping dead people,
such as Mary and--and Saint Cecelia, and all those other little, ten thousand
little saints they got. That's Catholicism. But Protestantism,
is the cross and the Christ Who rose from the dead and is alive tonight
forevermore, and the only Mediator between God and man." Amen. I said,
"I will tell you why I hang it there." I said, "It's because I
might move some of these days. They tell me that the mayor of
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
Now, in the day that we're
living and the things that... Notice, in all that chaos, they went and got the
holy vessels of the Lord, and came out and drinking wine in them, and made
mockery, and made fun of the holy things of God. That's just what they're doing
today. That's just what they've done for fifty years. That's just what they've
done since
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THE.HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL -- JEFF.IN -- 56-0902
Brother, we're sure to sink. I
don't mean the church, I mean the nation. It's just as sure to sink as it's a
nation. It's got to sink, because the whole thing has become stink
in God's face. And the so-called religionists has
become worse than the communists, 'cause they do know to do better and won't do
it. Just think of the day, just think.
The backbone of this nation is those good, old mothers and dads out yonder, and
at their prayer meeting on their knees praying. It's the people who serve God
that's the backbone of any nation. And yet, they're made fun of, made fun of,
called everything there is, there is under sun to call them that. And they make
fun. Remember, after while the handwriting come on the wall, "MENE, MENE,
TEKEL, UPHARSIN," Which means, "thou art weighed in the balance and
found wanting."
E-89 REJECTED.KING --
CHATUAQUA.OH -- 60-0610
Brother, if I had a
congregation like that I'd sure tear them to pieces, brother, it sure would be.
Yes, sir. Oh, they wasn't going to stay and listen to
that Holy-roller preacher. And then claim to be Pentecost. When
I got up there, and the Sunday school teacher come out, she said, "Good
morning, Rev. Branham." And all the--that red stuff on the face and
this black pencil over their eyes and all the--and dress so sexy like. And they say, "Well, now wait a minute.
Brother Branham, that's the only kind of clothes you can buy." They still
sell goods and sewing machines. So
they're not of any excuse for you. That's right. If you're led by the Holy
Spirit, straighten up. They don't want the Holy Spirit to judge them. They
don't want... There's no excuses. God won't listen to your excuses. He wouldn't
listen to Saul's and He won't listen to you. You've got to compare with what
the Bible said.
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KLAMATH.FALLS.OR -- 60-0717
And listen. As David duPlessis once said, God has no grandchildren. That's
right. We getting too many grandchildren in Pentecost.
That's right. God doesn't have a grandchild. No where in the Bible says God has
a grandchild. God has sons and daughters,
but not grandchildren. Now, what it is, now the first Methodist revival,
they were sons and daughters of God. Then their...
They, the old-timers, brought in their children then just put them in the
Methodist church. That's exactly what the Pentecostals done. I went to one of the great Pentecostal
churches not long ago, frankly, about three months ago and was invited down. And they knowed how I preach holiness.
And every one of their women, pretty near, in the building wearing manicure and
their men with flat top haircuts and down... And as soon Sunday school was
over, each one walking out of the building and get away from there. They knowed they'd had a skinning coming, so they just didn't
stay. That's all. They wouldn't stay and take it. That didn't help none,
because they're going to have to need at the day of judgment.
You might as well face it right now and get it over with when there's mercy.
But there, that's where Pentecost...
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KLAMATH.FALLS.OR -- 60-0717
What is it? The old-timers that
used pray all night long, the old-timers that had real, real genuine salvation.
They come into Pentecost. They got the Holy Ghost. They brought their children
and put them on the cradle roll down there. And the first thing you know, we've
got grandchildren in Pentecost. But God don't have grandchildren. They're all,
every one, borned in His Kingdom sons and daughters
of God (Amen.), sons and daughters. Not grandchildren, God
don't have any. They're all sons and daughters. That's why today, the Message blinds the
people so much is because they're not used to seeing the supernatural. We need
the power of God. We need back to real Pentecost. As Billy Graham said
recently, you can't ignore the Pentecostal church, because it's the fastest
growing church in the world today.
33-4 SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS
- JEFF.IN - V-3 N-23 - 61-1224
Large Sunday
schools. Sure! Each church trying to outdo another one
in Sunday school. And Sunday school is not even spoke
of in the Bible. That's a Methodist dogma. It was first called "ragged
school." Everybody now goes to Sunday school that can't stay for church,
because they took something besides what God said. That's right.
E-6 PRESUMING --
CLEVELAND.TN -- 62-0408 Well, usually Sunday school lasts four or
five hours at home, so... We can't do that because we just got about
forty-five, fifty minutes here that we'd like to speak just a little this
morning on the Word.
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-- 62-0726 I believe Him. Do you believe Him? Now, each
one that raised your hand... Now, I believe in making altar calls. Certainly I
do. But the real... that isn't apostolic. The Bible said,
"As many as believed was baptized." See? Prayer
meetings has been sure. We started making altar calls, coming up and
praying, in the days of the Methodist, early church in England, when they
organized Sunday school, and so forth. But that's--that's fine. I believe in
Christians coming around the altar praying, sinners and what more. But right
now, see, there's not any room--instruments and everything here. But I believe that you meant that. And if you
didn't mean it, it wouldn't help you anyhow. See? But if you did mean it, you
have passed from death unto Life. That's exactly what He said. That's right, if
you meant it. There's thirty, forty hands.
52 PROVING.HIS.WORD -- JEFF.IN -- V-9 N-6 --
64-0816 Now, but for the stranger that might be
within our gates, this, we put our Sunday School in
one great class. And that's this class here, because the rooms are all packed
out with the people and we can't have regular separate classes, and we study a
little on the Word, have fellowship together. We don't... We are not any
denomination. We have no denomination. We are just free in the Lord, and we not
mean a bunch of fanaticism. We just teach the Bible, and That alone. And the
Lord is so good to us, till He backs it up and shows that that is true. And It gives us great consolation.