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''Someone said to me, long, not long ago, "You condemned those Pentecostal people so much, why do you stay with them?" I love them. That's the reason. '''Love is corrective.''' If it doesn't… What if a junior stands out here in the street, and—and he's out there making a mud pile in the middle of the street, where them cars are passing by? You say, "Junior, bless your little heart, honey. You shouldn't be setting out there. When you get ready, come in." That's not love. You don't love your child. And you'd take him out there, and '''jerk him out of that street. And get you a stick''' and teach him he shouldn't go out there again, if you really love him.<ref>William Branham, 63-0412M - The World Is Falling Apart, para. 66-67</ref> | |||
''Thank you, people, this hot night, setting here. I trust that there'll not be one of you lost, at that Day. I—I—I trust that you and I, together, will find grace before God, that I'll be able to always stand for that which is Truth, never to hurt you, but '''never to pull a punch from you.''' See? If I would, I wouldn't be the right kind of a daddy, if I let my kid just do anything. I'll correct them. Any love will do that. '''Love is corrective.''' I remember you writing me that note, that day, Pat. I've still got it. And '''love is corrective.''' The Bible said so. And if it isn't correct… That's the reason God corrects us. He loves us.<ref>William Branham, 63-0630E - Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?, para. 279</ref> | |||
'''''Love is corrective.''' If love doesn't correct, then it's not love. You see your child down on the street, and don't '''give him a little bit of posterior protoplasm stimulation''', you—you're not a good dad. But a real mother or dad will turn him up and spank him, let him know he's got to get out of the street, or perish. That's genuine love. But to say, "Junior, dear, I don't know. You, maybe you shouldn't be out there at this time of day, the end time, when the cars are going pretty fast." Oh, nonsense, you sissified preacher, not the audacity to take God's Word and call white white and black black, right right and wrong wrong. But they do it.<ref>William Branham, 63-0804A - Once More, para. 106</ref> | |||
And now I have a Message that I'm responsible for. And many times I've been considered, amongst the people, well, maybe someone who just didn't sit down and think a minute, that I was a—a, oh, an awful person, I didn't like people, and I was always cutting them. And that's not so. That isn't so. I love people. But, you know, '''love is corrective.''' If your little boy was sitting in the street out there, and you said, "Junior, dear, I don't want you out there, but…" And cars buzzing by him, and you brought him in. He run back out again. Why, you should correct him. If you love him, you will. You have to. 24 If you seen a man floating down a river, towards a falls, in a little boat, that you knowed that boat was going to sink when he hit the falls, would you say, "John, you, maybe you ought to think a while, maybe you might not make it"? If I know he's not going to make it, I'm going to almost jerk him out of the boat, if I can, because it's love that does that.<ref>William Branham, 65-0429E - The Choosing Of A Bride, para. 22-23</ref> | ''You say, "What do you scold them for?" '''Genuine love is corrective.''' If your child is sitting out on the street; you say, "Well, there sits Junior. He oughtn't to do that, but I don't want to hurt his little feelings." You don't love him. He'll get killed there. '''If you love him, you'll bring him in and give him a spanking.''' You'll make him obey. That's the way God does. '''Love is corrective''', and that's genuine love. When a preacher stand and lets you women bob your hair, and wear paint and stuff, and don't correct you, there is no genuine love there; and won't call it out. And let you man marry three or four times, and all of these other things, and get by with it, there is no genuine love there. Let you join a church, and pat you on the back, and smother you with some creed, saying, "That's all you have to do, is join the holy church," there is no love there. Or, either, the man is so totally lost, himself, he don't see. '''Genuine love is corrective''', and brings you back to the Word of God.<ref>William Branham, 64-0322 - Possessing The Gate Of The Enemy After Trial, para. 144</ref> | ||
''And now I have a Message that I'm responsible for. And many times I've been considered, amongst the people, well, maybe someone who just didn't sit down and think a minute, that I was a—a, oh, an awful person, I didn't like people, and I was always cutting them. And that's not so. That isn't so. I love people. But, you know, '''love is corrective.''' If your little boy was sitting in the street out there, and you said, "Junior, dear, I don't want you out there, but…" And cars buzzing by him, and you brought him in. He run back out again. Why, you should correct him. If you love him, you will. You have to. 24 If you seen a man floating down a river, towards a falls, in a little boat, that you knowed that boat was going to sink when he hit the falls, would you say, "John, you, maybe you ought to think a while, maybe you might not make it"? If I know he's not going to make it, I'm going to almost jerk him out of the boat, if I can, because it's love that does that.<ref>William Branham, 65-0429E - The Choosing Of A Bride, para. 22-23</ref> | |||
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