It’s not the people

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And there’s nothing wrong. There was nothing wrong with any of the members. They’re every one fine men and women. If they could just realize that that’s the devil, gets between the people. That’s exactly right. It’s not the people. If you can let a brother see that, then he won’t hold enmity against the other fellow. He has…He’ll—he’ll feel bad. He’ll feel like, “Well, that’s…I feel sorry for my brother.” See, if he did do wrong, why, it wasn’t the brother. It was the devil that did that.
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You say, “Well, this guy did a certain, certain thing.” Your brother didn’t do that; your sister didn’t do that; that was the devil got into them, that did it. So don’t blame the brother, the sister; blame the devil, that’s the one who caused it.

The Baptist Of The Holy Ghost - 58-0928E - William Branham

God dwells in human heart

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No matter how much teaching you got, you can drum that into you. God is not in big words. God is in an honest heart. You might stand here, speak big words, like I don’t know what, that doesn’t bring you closer to God. You can stand and practice how to repeat your sermon and say these things, that don’t get you closer to God. You can learn dictionary till you sleep with one, and it still wouldn’t get you closer to God. A humble, submitted heart, in the simplicity, is what brings you to God. And that’s true. Amen! A humble heart, God loves. Now, no matter if you don’t know your ABC’s, that don’t make any difference. Just a humble heart! God dwells in a humble heart; not in education, it’s not in schools, not in theology, seminaries, not in all these other different places; not in big words, or not in classical places. God dwells in human heart. And the lower you can break yourself down, the more simple, you can become greater in the sight of God.

Let me give you something. I see your fields are full of wheat out here. A full head of wheat always bows. A little old sprig sticks up there, and flopping around like it knows everything, it ain’t got it in the head. That’s the way with a lot of these guys that think they got a whole lot in their head, and nothing in their heart, though. A holy head will bow to the Power, recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and believe His works.

Demonology, Religious Realm - 53-0609a - William Branham

I think that that's the way God feels

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And I think it’s when we can get together with this type of fellowship, it does something to us, that draws us closer to each other. And as we get closer to each other, we also get closer to God, for Jesus said, “Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these My little ones, you have done it to Me.”

I’ve got a little boy in here somewhere, I suppose, Joseph. I got Billy setting here. Two daughters setting back there, and a wife. Now if anybody had something that was…you wanted to do real nice, I would much rather you would do it to my children than to do it to me. And so I feel maybe, as a parent…And He’s the source of parenthood. I think that that’s the way God feels. If we should…We serve Him as we serve each other. That’s how we serve God.

The Identified Masterpiece Of God - 64-1205 - William Branham

Then our thoughts are His thoughts

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He will do it if we’ll completely surrender ourselves to Him. If we will completely deliver ourselves into His hand, then God can live in us. Christ, the Hope of Glory, He can reflect Himself from us as we get ourselves out of the way. Then our thoughts are His thoughts. Could you imagine Christ smoking a cigar? Could you imagine Christ drinking, or playing cards? Then if your spirit is part of His Spirit, He wants it to be upon your confession. But you permit the devil to come in and take over. And all the time, in your heart, way down deep, you know you’re wrong when you do those things.

And when a one member would talk against the other member, you know that’s wrong. You are commanded to pray for one another, not to talk against one another, but to love one another. And if someone is down, let’s pick him up, help him. Now, that makes us a—a—a unified group of believers. Now, when we don’t obey that, then we don’t obey God and we displease God. And therefore, our church, our people cannot prosper, the church cannot go on, is because we are disunified, together. As Jesus said, “A little leaven leavens the lump.”

A Total Deliverance - 59-0712 - William Branham

Where art thou?

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When God knew that—that shocking state of emergency… I suppose the first-ever came to heaven, was when He heard that His children was lost. And He came frantically; up-and-down through the garden He went, looking under every bush.

“Adam! Oh, My son Adam, where art thou?”

There stood Adam and Eve with their fig leaves sewed together, behind a bush. Father going back and forth, screaming, “Where are you? Where are you?”… That same God goes up-and-down the aisles night after night, screaming the same thing. “Where art thou? Where art thou?” And He finds Adam and Eve the same way, with some sort of a creed that they have, or denomination they’re—they are depending on to save them, hiding yet behind some man-made theology, when God made a preparation for you when He gave His Son to die in your stead. You must—got to be borned again. Creeds won’t work; that conference is held at some society. But God’s conference is held in Eden to take care of your sins. And there was one held at Calvary (that we’ll get to later) to take care of your sins, and the sin problem, your sickness and all that will ever happen to you, the… It’s already been studied out; preparations have been made. Just the only thing we have to do is come to God, and reason it out, and say, “Lord, I—I didn’t mean to do it.” Provision’s already made for it.

Having Conferences - 60-0608 - William Branham

Reverence

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Reverence! We ought to honor one another, respect one another, as brother, sister. And love one another, with undying love. You say, “Well, I just can’t.” Well, just stay here a little longer, and then you will like people, too. You’ll love those who doesn’t love you. That’s really a good sign of Christianity: when you can, from your heart, love those who does not love you. Love the unloveable.

Jesus said, “If you just do favors for those that do favors for you, well, the publicans do the same thing.” But, see, you must be kind to those who are unkind to you. Do good for those that would do evil to you. Always remember that. Keep that before you, that God is watching you. Remember, God was good to you when you were evil to Him. “While you were yet sinners, Christ died for you.”

Influence - 63-1114 - William Branham

How true it is

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But when you'll come together, oh, my, that's it, when you'll fully obey God. "This will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for the other." When you get part of the theology out and get a little love in there, it'll do works, and wonders, and--and miracles. But we got to have that. For who? For everybody. "Oh, for that old bunch of Assemblies of God, or that old bunch of Church of God, or old Oneness, or Threeness, or Fiveness, or whatever they are? Me love them? I couldn't love them; they're antichrist." You're lost yourself, brother, when you think that. That's right. You're not right with God. If you can't raise out a hand to the bitterest enemy you got and try to win him to Christ, then the Spirit of Christ isn't in you. "For he come to his own, and his own received him not." Yet He gave His life for His enemy. He did. How true it is. And that Spirit of God in you makes you feel the same way about everybody.

Expectation - 61-0207 - William Branham