Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Malachi 2:17)
42 We find out when Uzziah got lifted up in his heart, we find out that God smote him. What did he do? He tried so much to try to take a minister’s place. He thought because he got lifted up, God had blessed him, made him a great man, he could just do anything he wanted to.
43 I heard a young man tell me not long ago, he said, “You know, God loves me so much, Brother Branham, He just lets me do anything I want to. He don’t care.”
44 I hear so much today about God being a good God. He is. I’m not disputing that. He is a good God. But He is also a God of wrath. His Holiness requires righteousness. His law requires judgment. If there is no judgment to law, law is of non-effect. What good would it do to say, “It’s against the law to run this redlight down here,” without being a penalty behind it? See, it would be no law. They couldn’t do nothing about it; there isn’t a penalty. There is a penalty for transgressing God’s laws, and, it will, you’ll have to pay to the utmost farthings before you’re brought out.
45 Now many man today makes that sad mistake like this fellow did, when he got exalted, got big, got so he had everything in his own hands, he felt secure, “God loves me so much, till there is nothing can bother me now.” When he did that, he throwed hisself in the same shape that Nebuchadnezzar did one time, as you Bible readers know. Then we find out that he was smitten with leprosy because he tried to take a minister’s place.
46 Not long ago, I speak international for the Full Gospel Business Men. Sometime ago, I was sitting in a place, it was over in Jamaica, we was having a meeting.
47 I love them, because it’s people out of all the churches. It gives me a chance to—to speak. Sometime the churches won’t cooperate, but their businessmen are cooperating, they—they’ll have to kind of hold their face for the businessmen’s sake.
48 So now we find out, that in there, I was having a meeting. That night when we come back over to the Flamingo Motel, I said, “I’m ashamed of you fellows.” I said, “It’s a disgrace. All you talked about, before all the political leaders and things, and businessmen up-and-down here, was about, ‘I had a little bitty business down here, and I got sixteen Cadillacs,’ or whatever more.” I said, “Them man, you can’t compare with them.”
49 That’s what’s the trouble with the church today, you are trying to compare with Hollywood. You’re trying to make it like Hollywood. Remember, Hollywood glares; the Gospel glows. You can’t go over on their ground; you’ve got to bring them on our ground. That’s where we’ve got to get them. Got to get them over here, not us go out there. We could never compare with them. We don’t want to. They shine and glitter; the Gospel glows with meekness and humility. That’s just the difference between a glow and a glare.
64-0215 - "Influences"
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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