Stay with the Word of God

You know what's the matter? People in these great big cold formal morgues out here pretending to be preaching the Gospel... 

A little old preacher come to me yesterday, belongs to one of the greatest denominations there is in the land today outside of Catholic.

He said, "Brother Branham, I'm sick and tired." He said, "They're going to make all the preachers put on robes, and turn their collars around, and--and preach certain things, and--and they'll tell us what to preach on each quarter." He said, "I can't stand it no longer." He said, "What must I do? Must I start preaching the Gospel?"

I said, "Brother, as long as you're with that denomination, respect it. You stay just what they are; but walk up to your presbyter or your state superintendent and say, 'Sir, I've been borned again of the Spirit of God. Here's the Word of God, if you'll let me preach that, I'll stay in your church. If you don't, I'm gone. Turn it over to somebody else.'" 

That's the way to do it. Don't beat around the bush. Don't be negative. Come out and say what it is. That's right.

He said, "Brother Branham, you think I'd have a congregation?" I said, "Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered." That's right. They'll follow.

From the sermon "Enticing Spirits" by William Branham, July 24th 1955

You are a letter read of all men

Remember the Bible said, "You are living, written epistles read of all men."

Now, many people won't read the Bible. But God has made you a living representative. You are a walking letter, should be a walking Bible, Christ in you. You should be the walking Word of God.

And if you profess to be a Christian and not that, your influence--your--what you're influencing will make you have to answer for many souls that you've turned aside, away from Christ, in that day of the judgment. I think it behooves us tonight to think about that. For every man, woman, boy, and girl, knows that you're coming to the judgment.

You might escape this, that, or the other. You might beat the income tax, and you might escape the Internal Revenue. You might do one thing or another. You might have run over the speed limit, and the cops never catch you. But one day judgment's going to get you. That's certain.

From the sermon "Influences" by William Branham, February 15th 1964 (Sound clip)

Rediscovering the Word of God

Revival is not about discovering something "new", but to rediscover the Word of God. A friend of mine told me about a book he had read discussing the reformation in Norway. In the early 1500s Norwegians for the first time were able to read the Word in their own language. What a great thing! Today Bibles are gathering dust on bookshelves... What if we could pick up our Bible with "new" eyes and read it like we had never read it before. I think it could wake us up.