WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #120

Establishing a Godly Home

April 21, 2002

PROVERBS 22:6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it

MALACHI 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

DEUTERONOMY 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deuteronomy 6 From the Amplified version, with a little Message of the Hour wording added to help make this word more personal to you. "Hear O Royal Seed of God, the Lord God is One Lord, - the Only Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and heart, and with your entire being, and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you this day, shall be first in your mind and heart; then you shall whet and sharpen them, so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the minds and hearts of your children, and you shall talk of them (1) when you sit in your house, and (2)when you drive down the road, and (3)when you lie down and (4)when you rise up. And you shall tie them as a symbol on your hands ( In other words, they are tied to your actions, what you do) and you shall bind them upon your forehead." ( which means that they encompass your mind or mindset). And, remember, your forehead is where your frontal lobe is and that is where your memory is resident. When a person has a lobotomy they lose there memory. But here we see that they are to take the preeminent place of our thinking. Even as frontlets between our eyes, that all we see is the word of God. As phylacteries that go "boing, boing, boing" as we walk along, and they bounce off our head. A constant reminder. And then He continues, " "And you shall write them upon the door posts of your house and on your gates." Why? So that whether you are coming or whether you are going, there will always be a constant reminder set before you of God's promises to you in this hour. The scripture is speaking of actually doing things that would create an atmosphere of Christ centered-ness in our homes.

This Morning I want to speak on a subject that is dear to my heart, but it seems that every time I do we loose a family in here, and for what reason, Only God knows. But I want to talk to you about "Establishing the Family Altar" again in our homes, or we can call this, "Establishing a Godly Home". Now, the reason that I bring this up is because as we progress in the study of Who is This Melchisedec, we see brother Branham speak of Andrew, and Peter and how they were taught by their Godly Father to be aware of the signs of Messiah. And I realized in reading this just how important it is for us to teach our children the things we know. For without planting the seed in their minds, they will not have anything to base experience on.

You see, the role of a true Five-Fold minister is to do one thing, and that is to teach the people the Word. Then the Holy Spirit will come and anoint what has been taught and retained in their inner conscience and when that Word is anointed, it will come to life in the individual making that portion of the Word to come alive. That is called revelation. As long as it just sits there as an unrevealed word, it is not understood, nor is it a reality. And that is why so many people have a problem with understanding the Word, because they don't meditate upon it and ask God to reveal it to you.

BLASPHEMOUS NAMES 62-1104M 22-1 The biggest part of our faith is mental faith. By hearing the Word it brings us to a mental recognition of God. But if this coming from above, oh, brother, if it ever strikes this, there is a godly, spiritual faith. Then what does that faith do? That faith recognizes only the Word. No matter what anything else says, it only recognizes the Word, because "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (And the Word's still God.) And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." And when the word Itself is pouring into our faith, our mental faith becomes a spiritual revelation. "And upon this foundation I'll build My Church," (See?), not upon a mental conception of church joining, a mental conception of that, but upon the revelation. When them streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that you've got, then upon this, a spiritual revelation, "I'll build My Church and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." See? That shows they would be against it, but it'll never prevail. Oh, what a glorious thing.

BLASPHEMOUS NAMES 62-1104M 23-4 And then, that was number one. Number one, coming to you, your mental faith, right here, comes the Holy Spirit, coming down into your mental faith making it a spiritual faith. Then the spiritual faith only recognizes the Word. Now, and Number two--three: Then you'll have spiritual, you'll have the Holy Spirit, and will seal all these things into you, as that Holy Spirit covers this. From your faith up to the Holy Spirit seals you in with Christ; then you become one. Amen. You become one. See, you and Christ live together. "At that day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." See? Then that's a sealed unit of the Lord God. Now, and then they are vindicated and placed. When that time takes place, they become vindicated sons and daughters of God.

Now, God promised in the Book of PHILIPPIANS 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 ¶ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. (In other words, where we have already come to an understanding, then let us walk in that understanding, because righteousness is doing right). Now this brings us to the message Who is This Melchisedec, again and we will read from paragraph 125.

WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 125 Now, when He was here and was made flesh, He was called the Son of man. Now, how did He make Himself known to the world as Son of man, the Prophet? One day... I was telling a story of Peter and Andrew his brother. They were fishermen, and their father Jonas was a great old believer. One day they said he set down on the side of the boat. He said, "Sons, you know how we prayed when we needed fish." (They was commercial fishermen.) He said, "We've trusted God, Jehovah, for our living. And I'm getting old now; I can't stay with you boys much longer. And I've always--with all the true believers--have looked for the time when that Messiah will come. We've had all kinds of false ones, but there's coming a real One someday." And he said, "When this Messiah comes, I don't want you boys to be deceived. This Messiah will not be just a theologian; He will be a Prophet. For our prophet Moses, of who we follow, he said..." Now, any Jew will believe his prophet. He's taught to know that. And if the prophet says anything that's so, then that's truth. But God said, "If there be one among you spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him. And what he says comes to pass then hear him and fear him. But if it don't, then don't hear him at all." See? So that was a--the vindication of the prophet.

127 "So Moses was truly a vindicated prophet, and he said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up among you, out of your brethren a Prophet like unto me. And all that won't hear him will be cut off from the people.'" He said, "Now, children, remember, that as Hebrews we believe God's vindicated prophets." Now, listen close; don't miss it. And he said, "When the Messiah comes, you'll know Him, for He will be a prophet Messiah. Now, I said, it's been four hundred years; we haven't had a prophet since Malachi. But He'll be." And one day after his death, few years, his son Andrew was strolling along down the bank, and he heard a wild man out of the wilderness saying, "That Messiah is standing among you now." That big eagle that raised up over the wilderness and flew over there, said, "The Messiah's among you right now. We don't know Him yet, but He's standing among you. I'll know Him, because I'll see a sign coming from heaven." One day He said, "There, behold, is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." Away he went, this man, to find his brother; he said, "Simon, I want you come over here; we've done found the Messiah." "Oh, go on, Andrew, you know better than that." "Oh I know, but this Man is different." "Where is he? Where'd he come from?" "Jesus of Nazareth." "That little wicked city? Why, he couldn't come from a wicked, dirty place like that." "You just come and see." Finally he persuaded him to come down one day. So when he come in the front of this Messiah, Jesus, standing there speaking to the people, when he walked up in front of Him, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That did it. He got the keys to the Kingdom. Why? He knowed that that Man did not know him. And how did He know him and that godly old father who'd taught him how to believe the Messiah?

Now, I want you to notice the importance that brother Branham placed on Peter and Andrew's father having taught them the Word and what to look for. I really like that, because most people just don't teach their children to be God Wise. Oh, they might teach them hold to be street wise, and how to make money, or how to cheat and steal, but that is because that is their treasure. But Jesus said, "where your treasure is, their will your heart be also". And if our hearts are in this message, we will truly give it all the preeminence in our thinking, and in our speech and in our actions. Then when we talk to the children about the things of the Lord, they will believe us because they know the Word is a reality to us, and it is our ultimate and our absolute.

I will never forget that dream I had a couple years ago where I was with brother Vayle, and we were walking in a very desert-like place looking for the greatest treasure in earth. I remember it so vividly as though I were actually there, and as we walked over this small hill, a man dressed like an Arabian came running toward us with a long curved saber and as he swung it toward me, I just reached out and grabbed his arm, and through him in the direction he was already running, and he went flying through the air and landed on the ground behind us. We did not stop walking, we just kept on going forward, not even looking back, but kept on walking. Then as we crested the top of the hill, we looked down and could see a small foundation about 20 feet by 20 feet and it stood about 18 inches in height. We walked to a small opening and something said, walk twenty more paces, and you will find the treasure. I looked in the opening and thought do we do straight and to the other wall and then turn, and when I walked to the other wall I noticed another opening , and as I looked through it, I saw another foundation with dimension of 12 x 12 and so we kept walking until we came to that smaller foundation standing also about 18 inches above ground. But as we approached this foundation, I saw a small hole just below the ground level right into the side of the foundation, and when I looked into that small hole, I saw a table and a mother there with her children reading a book. The I looked around and saw a wall that had a bookshelf, and it was filled with the Red covered Spoken Word Messages of William Branham. I looked again and noticed this is what the family was reading. And Some thing spoke and said to me this is the greatest treasure on earth. Then I awoke out of my sleep.

Now, in Who is this Melchisedec, Brother Branham had been talking about Peter and Andrew and how their father had taught them to be aware of the signs of Messiah. And this reminded me of another father who did not teach his children so well. That father was Lot, and he sat in the gate, and I know that means in judgment, but it also tells us he was not in or out, and that he really was living a double sort of life. Whereas Abraham lived outside the city, showing he had chosen not to be a partaker of the world or the things of the world, but we find that Lot just hung between both worlds, and when it came time for him to choose, he did choose to come out, but his son in laws who had watched his life said, "he seemed as one who mocks." In other words, he seemed as though he was just kidding, because a mocking bird is an imitator, and you can't believe its call because it is a bird, but will sound like other animals. And that is the testimony Lot had on his son in laws.

GENESIS 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. 15 ¶ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, (NOTICE, HE DID NOT DO AS THE ANGELS TOLD HIM, BUT HE HESITATED, NOT FULLY CONVINCED HIMSELF) the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

So Lot's son in Laws were lost, because of his own weak testimony. You see how important your life is before others. If you profess one thing and live another, others will not believe your testimony. They will reject it because of your sincerity.

FAITH OF ABRAHAM 55-1118 E-20 Therefore He, by election, He chose Abraham, for He knew what Abraham would do. You remember when He called him out there and said He'd not keep the thing a secret from him? When He was going down to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He said, "For I know that Abraham will teach his children; I know it," God Himself. "I know that Abraham will send this message on down from one to the other generation." But God foreknowing that, and knowing that Abraham would do it, then He told Abraham in the beginning that He would save him and save his Seed after him, and would give him the--the unconditional covenant that He made with Abraham. Not because Abraham was good, but because God was good.

FAITH OF ABRAHAM 55-1118 E-21 And every believer in here is a Christian tonight, because, not that you're good, but because God was good to call you. You couldn't come yourself; your--your nature's against you. You just couldn't, as I said the other night, make a pig believe he's wrong eating slop, because it's his nature. See? Now, the only... A leopard could not change his spots. No matter how bad he would lick, he'd only brighten it. And you don't want reformation; you don't want to try to reform, or do a little better, you've got to be changed completely inside, and the nature come from within, and it'll work out. But get it right inside at the beginning. And you begin with a soul before the world was ever formed, when God created man in His own image. Now, you got to get that right, and that's what has to be borned-again, not your thinking. It takes care... It moves with this. But get this right, and this will be all right too. If you just get your heart right, your intellectuals will move right with it.

DEUTERONOMY 11:18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

INFLUENCE 63-1114 27 I'll tell you. I think today, we have such a juvenile crime wave across the nation, but really, I think it started in the home. I--I think the parents begin to let go. And if the child had been raised up in a good, old fashion, godly home, I don't say it would be all over, certainly not, but it would certainly give that child the right kind of influence. I think, many times, that, homes that children has been brought up wrong, turned loose on the street, and just lived for themself while the mother stays in a barroom, or the--and the father, and so forth. They don't take care of this child. Another thing, they don't love it and give it the affections, to take it up. It's young. You've got to teach it to love and respect, and to read the Bible.

28 I think of Susan Wesley. I think she had seventeen children. I think that's right. But she found two hours or more, every day to pray. Down at the--the end of her dress, where the little boys knelt around, out of there produced a John and a Charles that changed the course of the world, saved the world in that day. And she didn't have a washing machine and a dryer, as we have today, and a dishwasher, and so forth, or a maid. The thing that... She did it all herself, but yet she could find time because she was putting an influence to some children that finally changed the course of the world. I think that's the old fashion mother, the old fashion home, where prayer and the understanding of the Bible.

29 I believe it was Abraham Lincoln never owned a book in his life, till he was of age, but the Bible and... I think it was either the Foxe's "Book Of Martyrs"... I might not; it might've been another book. I think it was "Pilgrim's Progress," to be right. It was "Pilgrim's Progress," and--and the Bible. You see what kind of a character that molded? Just let me go in your house and see what kind of pictures you got on your wall. Let me go to your home or your office, and let's see what kind of music's playing. See? What you read, what you look at, I can pretty well tell you what's on the inside of you (See?), because it feeds on that. See? And, oh, to a home, if we made a home more lovely, children wouldn't want to run away. Make things more for them, where they feel welcome and nice and comfortable at home; where, home, they can't hardly wait till they get there. And that's the way home should be.

31 And I think that's the kind of a home that Uzziah must've been raised in, because of the influence of his godly parents. And as soon as he become king, he ignored all popular opinions and all political differences, and he set his mind for one thing: he'd serve God, regardless. We need some more politicians like that. He--he was determined that he was going to serve God, because that's the way he was raised, and his father give him the right influence, that he--he could serve God and live. And his kingdom was so great till, I believe, it was next to Solomon's kingdom. I believe it's noted about next to Solomon's kingdom. How God blessed him. And this was a great influence upon this young prophet Isaiah, who was at the temple at the time, or in the land. And how he was seen, and how God would bless a man that taken the right stand, done the right thing, had the right motive and the right objective, and he done right.

34 Sometimes you may think that it doesn't pay off. But it certainly does pay off. It's got to pay off. You cannot be going east and west at the same time. You can't be going right and left at the same time. You may think you're going the other way, but you're not. So if you'll set your--your mind and eyes, and motives and objectives and life on the right thing, you've got to come out on the right thing. You can't fail. See? That's the only way. No matter how much you're tempted to do the other side, turn your head from it and do what's right. And you're--you know you're right; you feel better, and you are better. And that's just all there is to it, you got... You're going to come out right. You start going west, you're not--you're not going to be going north; you're going to be going--you're going to be going west. And that's the same way it is in right and wrong.

35 And Isaiah saw this, and he saw that God blessed him. And how he... All the nations, around about, his fame went plumb into Egypt. And how the nations didn't want war with him, they--they seen that God was with him. So he just... They sent him peace offerings and herds of sheep, and things, and--and give it to him, to cause peace. And he was a good man. And I believe if a nation, or a people, or a church, or an individual, no matter how much the critics criticize you, just do the right thing. They have a respect for you, way down in their heart. I found that to be the truth. See? And be honest and be upright. People will respect that. And even though they're wrong, they still respect it (You see?), because it's--it's just the human being. We're all human, and we--we know that there's a right and wrong, and we must take that

EXPECTATION 55-1001 E-29 The first preacher that ever gets a child is a mother. There's four, five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and mother. And a mother should be a Spirit filled woman, who can teach her children, and teach them to pray and to know about God, and so forth. Instead of that, they give them to a babysitter and run all night long. And then go to Sunday school on Sunday morning and call themselves Christians. I better get off of that, hadn't I? 'Cause I just an old sassafras type that believes the truth about these things. That's right. And I'd rather scorch you now than have you be burnt after while, so that--that's true. So you just remember; it's the truth; it's the Gospel truth.

BLIND BARTIMAEUS 59-1127 E-10 But alas, that was long ago. And how he used to go and run, and heard his mother set out on the front porch and call his name, sweetly and softly, "Bartimaeus, it's nap time for my little boy." And he would rush up to his mother, as she set on the front porch, and sang the hymns of the Psalms to him, and tell him Bible stories until he would fall asleep in her arms. How, setting there now, as an old man, withered, hunched in the cold, he'd think of that pretty Jewish mother, her eyes just as sparkly. How she used to brush the hair back from his little baby forehead, and say, "Oh, you have such pretty little brown eyes, my boy." And he remembered some of the Bible stories then, that she used to tell him. I tell you, the thoughts of a good Christian mother, is a treasure to a human heart that's never forgotten. God, give us more mothers that'll take their children, and instead of trying to teach them tap-dancing, and something to ruin and wreck their life, will read the stories of the Bible to them and tell of them of the God of heaven and peace. God knows that we need that above all things now for motherhood.

PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH.AGE 60-1210 35 Now, I got just a short piece of history here on the messenger for tonight, of the John Wesley. John Wesley was the star of the age. And he was borned on June the 17th, 1703, in Epworth rectory, England. He was the fifteenth child of nineteen. John and Susanna Wesley, father and mother... Father, a preacher; mother, a consecrated saint; although with nineteen children to take care of, she found much time through her busy day to teach her children Bible lessons, and Bible stories, and pray for them. That's what made the boys what they were. The great song writer, Charles, his brother, who gave the world some of the most inspiring songs we've ever had...

BE NOT AFRAID 61-0224 E-19 That's a good thing for a dad to do, or mother. Wonder today if we put more time on instructing our children in the things of the Lord, than we do about hot rods and other things, and we wouldn't have so much juvenile delinquency. That is true. Susanna Wesley was the mother of seventeen children. She didn't have no push button dishwashers, and--and spigots to turn on to get water, and yet with all those children she could spend two to three hours a day in prayer around those seventeen children. From that little nest of little birds came forth a John and a Charles who stirred the world. We need more mothers like that with time to teach their children about God.

INFLUENCE OF ANOTHER 62-1013 37 You know what I think? Everybody has their own opinion. But one of the greatest, and to my opinion, the greatest president that we ever had in this nation was Abraham Lincoln. Now, not because he was a Republican, but because he was what he was, a godly man. And he was raised, and he--to serve God. And he said, "If there's anything that I want to give praise to," he said, "or my life was influenced by, was a godly mother who taught me to pray and to know Jesus as my Saviour." Oh, your family's what you are. You raise your child in a certain environment; it's got a ninety-eight percent better chance to go right than it has to if you bring it up in the wrong way. "Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when it's old it'll not depart from it." Be brought up right, teach your children to do right, to be honest, to be square and fair even when they're in school. 39 Now, many times children are prone to copy off of one another, and--and try to press their way through school. But you know, I think if you'll just get it yourself, then it's something that you--you can appreciate your good graded paper. You know, if you're going to have a test the next day, instead of running around all night, getting up the next morning, and think, "Well, I'll set next to So-and-so; they're smart. And then they'll--I can copy off of them," if you'll just before dad returns thanks at the breakfast table, if you'll just say, "Dad, remember me today; I got to take a test in chemistry," or whatever it is. Then you, when you pray, dad, say, "God, bless John, Mary in their test today." I tell you; it'll turn the tide.41 Remember, we can have what we want if we will ask in faith believing. Jesus said, "All things are possible to them that will believe. You have not because you ask not, and you ask not because you believe not." He said, "Ask abundance that your joy may be full." I like that. Our teaching right: say the right thing; do the right thing; think the right thing; always be thinking right. And I have a little slogan: Do right, that's your duty to God. Think right, that's your duty to yourself; And you're bound to come out right. You can't be going east and west at the same time, nor you can't be going right and wrong at the same time. No matter how much you think you're going the other way, if you're not traveling directly west... You're not going east if you're going west.

INFLUENCE OF ANOTHER 62-1013 83 About five years ago I was in Ohio, and I was having a meeting up there at the (What is the name of that place where I had it out there on that?) [Someone says, "Chatauqua"--Ed.]--Chatauqua. And I was listening to a newscast in the hotel, and it said, "The flower of freedom died this afternoon in a court here in Ohio. The Amish people, they don't believe in sending their children to these public schools. They have their own schools. And in this certain neighborhood where these were at, they didn't have any high schools. It's the law of Ohio and Indiana (I think a national law) that all children must go to school till they're sixteen. And this man had a couple of children, boy and girl, that wasn't sixteen; and they refused to send them to the public schools where they teach the ethics of Darwin (that man descended from a single cell, be a monkey; that's all he is, just a glorified monkey and...). And so, they didn't agree with that, and they won't let their children hear it. And so the courts pulled them in. And this little smart-aleck judge said to the old aged father and mother, with his crock haircut and his overalls on; he said, "Sir, this state of Ohio has a law that says that the child must attend school till it's sixteen," and said; "you refuse to send your children. What do you answer?" 84 He said, "Honorable sir, I respect the laws of this lovely state in which I am a native." He said, "But we come here years ago, our forefathers, for freedom of religion, and that's why we are here for freedom of religion. Our religion teaches us that we don't believe that we come from animals to be man that... We believe that we were created in the image of God. Therefore, it's against our religious beliefs to send our children to a school that teaches such. Therefore, we don't have any high school here for our children to go. And it's not because we don't respect you; we respect what you believe; but for us, we don't believe that, and we don't want it taught to our children." He said, "You'll either send your children to school or you and your wife will spend two years in the state penitentiary." Said, "What's your decision?" He said, "Mother and I will spend the two years." And they turned and started to walk out. The old judge must've felt a little bit condemned, so he said, "Remember, don't your Bible say, 'Give Caesar what's Caesar's'?" And the father turned around, and he said, "And to God?" The man on the news said, "Well, then the freedom..." And the judge said, "I sentence you to two years." He said, "Then the freedom--the flower of freedom died in that courtroom this afternoon." 86 After all, the Dunkards--or the Amish, rather, no matter how peculiar they are, they believe in holy living. And there's not one record nowhere in the United States to where they ever had any juvenile delinquency. Not one person, one child, from their religion was ever a juvenile delinquent. Let them be peculiar whatever they want; they're raised right. I don't blame them. But listen, the flower died there right then, but about ten minutes it revived again. The prosecuting attorney, all of them, pushed back their books, and said, "Then we resign from our job, for if you break that Constitutional right, they'll break the rest of them."

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 64-0823E 1028-Q-298 298. Let me say this: I believe, if I was a--a woman and I knowed that my husband was healthy and had a good job, working, I believe it would be a--a great pleasure to me to stay home, take care of my children and make the--and--and--and take care of my children and raise them up, and to love the Lord. And if I had any time from my washing and things that I was going to do, I think I would teach my children how to serve the Lord.

MAN RUNNING FROM PRESENCE 65-0217 48 We got so many things we have to do, so much responsibility that we have to face. Everybody's got to face a certain responsibility. When you come to choose your wife, to get married, or choose your husband, you've got to take a responsibility. And then you must remember... Maybe you build a home; it's a nice pretty home. And then remember, as a married woman you got to think of the responsibility of raising children. And you got to think that them pretty slick walls is going to have little, dirty hand prints all over them. Then you got the responsibility of educating your children. You got the responsibility of clothing and feeding. Everything is a responsibility. And so easy when responsibilities face us to shirk from them. And we find out that marriage is a responsibility in all manners.

EXPECTATIONS 61-0308 E-80 Clergymen, could you mark out on your hands ten people tonight in this city that's sighing and crying, day and night, for the wickedness and things that's done in the city? Does anybody in this audience know where you could put your fingers on five people that sigh and cry day and night for the sins and things of the city? Well now, the Bible said set a mark upon those who sigh and cry for the abomination did in the city. That's right. That's it. See? No more burden for lost souls; it's all gone. We've--we've joined church and settled down. "That's all that's necessary." See? That's how we get... It's so... Sin is so sneaky, and it sneaks right up on you before you know it. See? That's the way it does. It just grabs you like the old toboggan slide used to be, and it's got you. The devil does that. Now, brother, let's get plumb back off of his territory; let's come back to God; come back to the altar; rebuild the altar again that's been torn down. And build up your home. Take them cards off the table, and all of them old love story magazines. And open up the Bible, and read the Bible, and pray. And just don't get down and say, "Bless my family, Mary, and Joe, and John, and all of them," get in the bed. No, sir. Stay there with God. Oh, my. E-81 You know that song you used to sing: There are times I'd like to be all alone with Christ my Lord. I can tell Him all my troubles all alone. That's what we need again. That's what... Them kind of a meetings, that kind of a church, that's the kind of church that prays down the blessings of God. I'm sure your pastor would appreciate every member becoming like that. How that he'd... And how it would be if the church could just be like that.

GOD TESTIFYING OF HIS GIFTS 52-0713E E-11 And I will just... I have to get this Scripture reading, because I want to read a Scripture every night, because I hope that you in your home, will read at least one chapter in the Bible every day and pray. See? Always do that. That's the old- fashion Christian home, and God knows that we need more of that, more than we need atomic bombs, in America. That would be the best thing that we could have, was a fortress of God's love and power around us. It'd beat all atomic powers, don't you think so? A praying...

GOD KEEPS HIS WORD 57-0306 E-47 Mix up yourselves together, and have union revivals; get preachers who stays with God's Word, and not scattered about here. Read the Word. Some of you don't read the Word once a week. You ought to read chapter after chapter every day. Mediate; if you'd get your head out of them old magazines and things you're reading, and out of this old, so many papers, and so called religious literature that oughtn't to never be on the market... That's just as bad as reading some of the other magazines, stuff that's false doctrine, and all kinds of dogma, and basing it upon the--on truth. Why, doctrine can't be based upon some experience. Doctrine is based on God's Word, not on experience. People can have experiences of everything.

JUST ONE MORE TIME LORD 63-0120E 133 You fathers, you mothers, are you ready to establish an altar in your house, and take that television out? Are you ready to take that deck of cards off the table? Them comic books that your children's reading, preparing their little mind for a blast that the devil's going to give them. Are you ready to establish the old family altar again? Or do you just want to continue on the way you are? If you want to continue on, you're not in condition of coming yet; but I pray that you're like Samson, you see the price and you're ready, "Lord, let me die with them." He knowed if God answered his prayer, what was going to cost. Many people, I've seen them right since I've been here, come up to the altar, and the Holy Spirit come to them, and they don't want to die. They want to stay alive in the world. You can't serve two gods at the same time. Are you ready to forsake everything to serve God? Listen at him cry, "Lord, only this once more."