You be sweet and kind

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And if you want to get somewhere with God, never let an arrogant spirit ever come around you. Don’t let no malice come in. No matter what anybody does, if they are wrong, don’t you never build up a complex against that person. See? You be sweet and kind. Remember, God loved you when you were in sin. And if the Spirit of God is in you, you love the other person when he’s in wrong. See, just pray for them, and love one another. Above everything, love God and love one another.

Humble Thyself - 63-0714E - William Branham

Would you like to receive Him, then?

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If there be such a one that would like to swap a carnal life of ordinances, of baptisms, of sensations, of little carnal things like that, for a real heart full of real love, that—that you could walk up to your bitterest enemy, put your arms around him and say, “Brother, I’ll pray for you. I love you.” If you’d like to swap that experience of carnal things for a real experience of love, would you raise your hand to God? And say, “God, take me tonight, and make me what I should be.” I’ll pray for you, right from the pulpit here. Would you desire prayer? Raise your hands.

God bless you back there, sir. God bless you, brother. Someone else? God bless you, sir. “I have been in the church for years.” God bless you, sir. God bless you here, brother. God bless you back there, little lady. “I will ask God to make me peaceful.” Do you…Are you real raging? Are you out of sorts? Do you doubt? Do you toss about? Do you wonder whether It’s really right or not? When you come to Christ, do you come with a full assurance, a heart full of love? Do you walk up to Him without one fear, saying, “I know He’s my Father”?

And there’s no condemnation, you’ve passed from death unto Life. You know it. And you notice your life: you’re loving, you’re forgiving, you’re gentle, you’re peaceful, you’re meek. All these fruits of the Spirit accompany your life, day by day. And as soon as you do anything wrong, “Oh, my.” Just as soon as it come to your mind, “you’ve done wrong,” quickly you make it right, right then. Don’t wait another minute, go right then and make it right. If you don’t, well, you don’t have the Spirit of Christ. You might be a good woman, you might be a good man, you might be well thought of in the church, you might be well thought of in the neighborhood, but have you went on to that perfection, to that place to where you’re wholly trusting in Christ? And by this, give you the seal. “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteous. Then God give him the seal of circumcision, as a confirmation.”

Now you say, “I believe God. I made a confession.” But did God give you the seal of the Holy Spirit, back on your life, of love, joy, fruits of the Spirit, to prove that you’ve been saved? If He hasn’t done that, then He hasn’t recognized your faith yet. You’ve just made a confession. He hasn’t accepted it, there is something wrong. Would you like to receive Him, then? Raise your hand, if there’s someone else, before we pray.

Hebrews, Chapter Six #2 - 57-0908e - William Branham

Lord, make me that

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With our heads bowed just a moment, I wonder if there’s someone here this morning would say, “Brother Branham, I am sick and tired of these little old things. I got petty things that’s hung on me so long. I—I’m always talking out of turn. I—I’m doing things I shouldn’t do, and I know it. It’s not becoming to a Christian. I don’t want to do that; God knows I don’t. And I don’t want to listen to that old spirit anymore. It’s the thing that’s kept me down all my life, from having real love and freedom in Christ. I want you to pray for me, Brother Branham, that it’ll—it’ll leave me this day.” Will you raise your hand? Every head bowed. God bless you. Oh, my, dozens of hands! Little old petty things, little old things that makes you talk or start some kind of a little fussing in the church, make you take sides with something another like that. Oh, that’s ungodly. That’s discord among brethren. And don’t do that. You don’t want that. You don’t want that and little old things, little old tempers and everything else, to keep you down.

Say, “God, I don’t want that thing no more. I’m sick and tired of it. I’m ready today to discard it. I’m coming now, Lord, and I want to get away from all my selfishness. If my brother doesn’t treat me right, I’ll pray for him anyhow. If my daddy doesn’t treat me right, I’ll love him anyhow. If my wife doesn’t treat me right, or my husband, I’ll go about, humble, before God. Lord, I look only to Your Kingdom. I want my mind straight. I want my heart full of joy. I want to go about, when trouble is really buzzing around me, I still want to stay with my hands up and my heart pure before You, Lord, knowing this, that someday I’ll meet You. I want that kind of experience. Lord, make me that, from this day.”

Would you raise your hand, somebody that didn’t raise their hand a while ago. God bless you.

Enticing Spirits - 55-0724 - William Branham

Salt creates a thirst

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It’s time for the Church today to be manifested. Instead of that we draw little lines like this, and we have these little campaigns, and these little doctrines, and these little denominations that separates us. How can God ever pour His Spirit on such as that, when He loves the Methodists the same as He does you Baptists, or you Pentecostals, or all of His children bought with the same Blood. See? But we draw lines.

And now, if the other fellow draws the line, you just live right along his line, and he will be so… You be the salt, God will make him thirsty, if you’ll be the salt. You are the salt of the earth. And salt, if it contacts, saves. And salt creates a thirst. And people will thirst when they see you living the life that you should live as a son and daughter of God.

Hear Ye Him - 56-0930 - William Branham

We still have the same God

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That’s what the people are today. They try to say, “Oh, they make too much noise, and they do this and that. That’s the trouble of it.” Listen, it’s not the—the doctor; it’s the disease that causes the trouble. That’s right. It’s the disease; it’s the sin that cut off their blessing. That’s the sin that’s in… Not because you haven’t got good pastors, not because you haven’t got fine churches, not because you haven’t got this, that or the other, sure, you have. But it’s the sin that’s cutting you away from these—these things that you ought to have. It’s sin that’s keeping the church from that raptured condition all the time. It’s sin, not the building, not the church, but the sin that’s in the church.

45 So then He said, “Call them up on Mount Carmel here and we’ll find out who’s God. Let the God that answers by fire be God. Let’s prove and see who’s God.” Oh, I—I’m so happy to know that we still have the same God, that the God that is God still answers like God, talks like God, walks like God, heals like God, saves like God, and cleans up like God. Amen. Still the same God…

It’s proved; God is a visiting the people today. God is in His Church, trying to purge the thing, take out the leaven out of it. He’s sending messengers, signs, and wonders, and miracles, and everything, trying to prove that He loves them and He wants them to clean up.

Painted-Face Jezebel - 56-1003 - William Branham

That's His Love to you

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And that’s the way it is. If God, when I was an alien from Him, so loved me till He stooped down to get me and pick me up, that gives me confidence that He wants to use me. He’s got a purpose in doing it. He seen something in me. He seen something in you. He had a reason to save you, look at the people that’s unsaved today. Look at the millions He could have took beside you, but He took you. Amen! No one can take your place. Amen! You’re in God’s economy. No one can do it. That’s His Love to you. Then, won’t your love reach right back to Him? And there’s a love affair. No matter what the situation is, its circumstances is governed by this Love that creates Faith: that God loves you and you love God, and you love one another, and—and that brings the Faith. All right. Then it can’t—it can’t keep from bringing out just exactly what God promised it would do.

Perfect Faith - 63-0825E - William Branham