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The church, yet, has growed in numbers, and it has growed in power; it's growed in finance; but it has fallen from what it was at that day, spiritually. There has... The greatest thing that could've happened to them, whether they become great in finance, great in numbers, or whether they had to stay in the minority, the greatest thing they could've held to would been that Holy Spirit that God, by His marvelous grace, had poured out upon them to lead them and guide them.
I believe that they have lost, and a--a great deal of that zeal that they had, that burning fire that fell and caught their souls aflame, that went into the street corners, to the byways, and to the highways. In the... Not through the easy way that we travel today, but through the way of persecution, through the way of sorrow, through the way of heartache, turned down by everyone.

And Brother Lyle and I, as we set out there, that's Sister Moore's father, and how he told me that in the early days, back in those days when they were persecuted and turned out from everywhere, that he was in a meeting once to where they were--had forbid them to worship the Lord in the Spirit. And a group of people come up and shot through the windows with pistols and rifles. And an old sister standing in the floor with her hands up in the air praising God while the windows was being riddled with bullets from rifles. And the bullets struck the woman's dress and fell to the floor without harming her.

We need to go back to a power of God, and a--something that can do the same thing today. Although in our numbers... Persecution always gives strength to the church. We've had it too easy. We get slothful. We get to a place where we don't want to move on, because everything's just handed to us. It takes sorrow, and tears, and sweat, and prayer, and faith, and promise to move forward in the power of the Holy Spirit. That zeal and power that they had in those days has long time vanished from our assemblies. I'm afraid if the windows would be shot out tonight, people'd run every way and never come back again.

The God that was, ever remains God, and expects His people to--to keep their vows and their promises.
But when we get everything so easy, then we just slip along. And the first thing you know, we've gone out from these things, losing our inheritance.

William Branham, Sermon "Return And Jubilee"
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/62-1122

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