NEUROTICS

WAY TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO IL 55-1009

E-40 040 What brought on juvenile delinquency was parent delinquency, the parent failing to take care of the children. You remember a few years ago, when my boy was born; that has been about, I think he's about nineteen now. I remember the doctor told my wife, said, "Just let that kid squall." Said, "It ain't going to hurt him. And if grandma comes along to pick him up," said, "tell her keep her hands off of him." Said, "He ought to be crib broke at six months old."

Now, you know better than that. Sounds like a talking of a witch doctor instead of a real doctor. And then you know what it hatched out? It hatched out a bunch of neurotics and a bunch of gangsters. Listen. God gave you that baby to love. I don't care how bad you spoil it; love it anyhow. That's right. Love it. If you don't love it now, it'll grow up in a cold home and indifferent, and it'll seek love somewhere, or something. It'll make an out-light for somewhere. Mother, take that baby and give it fellowship and love now. Make it a part of you, which it is, and act like it, and hug it, and kiss it, and--and love it. Don't be too cold with the things of the world. God gave you that as a treasure; raise it right. Amen.

Notice, that's what's the matter; we got away from the things of God. You get away from nature, and then you're out of the will of God.

JUNCTION OF TIME JEFF IN 56-0115

E-7 007 Now, let's go back for a little while in our minds and study just a few minutes, for the past few years what's been taking place.

I believe as a minister of the Gospel that we are living just at the near appearing of the second time of the coming of the Lord Jesus. The second return, or second coming. The first time He came as a baby. This time He's coming as King of glory to take vengeance upon all who obey not the Word of God. And we are believing with this great turmoil that we're living in today, as we look around on every hand, and pick up the newspapers, and just stand still, and drop our everyday hustle and bustle of this neurotic age, and look out and face facts, we see beyond any shadow of doubt that something's just about to happen.

FIVE JUNCTIONS OF TIME STURGIS MI 56-0122

E-95 095 And if they have been through all of these things, when all the world history is climaxing in this great drama... What's the matter? What makes people so nervous? Why is it even psychiatrist are coming to be prayed for? Why is it the world's in a nervous age, a neurotic age. When people can't wait. "Thrrrrp [Brother Branham makes a speeding noise--Ed.]," down the street ninety miles an hour, stop at the beer joint, two hours 'fore they go home, run over people. What's the matter?

What's everybody in such a hurry, you can't visit your neighbor? You don't have no friends. You don't know who lives next door to you. You ain't got time to do this. You're in a hurry. What's the matter?

There's a great drama being set. That's right. And the lion-hungered nation are ravishing in. But just before he gets able to take it, God will take His Church.

HEAR YE HIM OAKLAND CA 57-0322

E-23 023 Then while thinking on this, I thought, "Look at the--our lovely land of America, represented in the Bible in Revelations 13 as the lamb, and how that it has become so nervous." Everybody's in a hurry. They're honking their horns, turning the corners; speak a word to them they're short and cut you off. And they'll go down the street paying fines for breaking speed limits just to get to a beer joint to drink a little while before they get home. What's the hurry? It used to be we had time to fellowship and to talk with each other. But now you haven't got time even to meet your neighbor. One doesn't know the other. Even to psychiatrist are breaking up and going to the insane institution. So many nervous, upset neurotics, I often wonder, "What does this?"

THEN JESUS CAME JEFF IN 57-0407E

E-48 048 There you are. There you are. What is it? It's neurotics; it's mentally. And the doctors claim that nine out of every ten Americans is suffering with mental deficiency. Even the psychiatrists that's supposed to be mental interpreters, they are going wild and insane. They're hooking them by the great cuffs in the insane institution. Insanity is on the move. Rape is on the move. Whiskey is on the move. Sin is on the move. Debauchery is on the move. There's no way to stop it. Communism is sweeping in like a flood. There's no way to stop it because they're in the government and everywhere else.

STAND STILL SASKATOON SK 57-0518

E-17 017 It's a nervous age. What is it? Then I give this solemn warning to the Church: Stand still. God always commands to stand still before He does anything.

The churches is in a neurotic stage. Every church is a proselyting, and pulling, and fussing, and stewing. It's a neurotic age. But stand still. Now, that's the message.

Notice, Caleb here. The people had just come back, the spies, from over into the promised land. They was at Kadesh-barnea. And they had been brought through many trials and had seen the hand of God: A very beautiful picture of the Full Gospel church. And many of them had become discouraged, discouraged and upset because so many different isms and things has happened in the church. But that don't take away the real thing. God's calling His Church to halt. Stand still, don't be jumping and running, not knowing what you're doing. Come back to the Word. Come back to Christ.

MESSAGE TO THE LOADICEAN CHURCH DALLAS TX 58-0609

E-11 011 And I'm kindly thinking this, that many times the church in it's looseness gets to doing things, and thinking things, and taking things just as they are, when we ought to weigh what we do and say. We ought to think it over before we speak it.

My old southern mammy used to tell me, "Think twice and speak once." It's the little things, sometimes, that we leave undone, that means so much to us. We get in such a hurry to race over things in this neurotic age that we live in. It would behoove us, as the church of God tonight, to stop and wait a minute, see where we're at.

MOTHER'S DAY JEFF IN 59-0510M

41 019 But I might pass this on to the young people. Do you know Abraham Lincoln never owned a book in his life, until he was after twenty-one years old but the Bible and the Foxe "Book Of The Martyrs." See? what you read molds the character that you are. No wonder we got a bunch of neurotics today. Little old fiction magazines, and vulgar, and nonsense is placed upon our newsstands. He owned the Bible and the Foxe "Book Of The Martyrs." Look what it made him.

But in the face of all that, one day he made a statement like this. He said, "If there could be any good thing found in me, it's because of a godly mother," that reared him to serve the Lord.

WHAT HEAREST THOU ELIJAH CHICAGO IL 59-0609

E-12 012 But it goes to show that when God's doing something, Satan's always present to block it, or to tear it down, or do what he can to interrupt it.

And he was worn out. His nerves were all on the edge, and... And--and just like the people today. We need a juniper tree. I preached to tired people, nervous people; pray for nervous people. And it's a nervous, neurotic, upset world right now that we're living in. Everybody's just on the edge, as to say, or to speak. Like it's just any little thing so upsets them.

God's people is that way. The world is that way. We all need a juniper tree, a place to rest. I trust that this convention will be a juniper tree

LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE JEFF IN 62-0513E

35 015 We are living in a neurotic age, nervous tension. Everybody's racing here and going there, and going nowhere. It's just at that kind of an age. And I know this church would be plagued with it as everywhere's plagued with it. Tabernacle's plagued with it, everywhere, the whole world.

It's a day of pressure. Hurry, hurry; hurry, hurry; hurry up and wait. Drive ninety miles an hour and then--to get home for supper and wait two hours till it gets ready. That's right. It's--it's the time. And in that rushing and speeding it gets you to a nervous tension; the wife say something a little contrary, you want to fly off: temper. Husband say something, you'll pat your foot and tell him to get in the room. See? "Well, now husband, I don't want no words with you; go out there."

"Wife, oh, I'm so nervous." See? Why? What's the matter? See?

LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE JEFF IN 62-0513E

45 021 Everybody... It's just becoming a--a neurotic age. Everybody's all built up, haven't got no time. And that builds up to a place that it breaks up things, it causes people to have hard feelings when they snap them off and--and say things you don't mean to say.

Now, everybody's guilty of it. I'm guilty; you're all guilty, We--we do things under pressure that we wouldn't do otherwise. So they's a--they's an excess pressure built up today. I believe, before I go any farther I might say this: I believe it's the enemy coming down and pressing. I believe it's the devil.

And we know the coming of the Lord is at hand, and the Bible said in the last days that the devil would go about like a roaring lion. And if he could get you under pressure, hurrying, running over something, you'll make decisions that you wouldn't make if you'd set down and think it over.

END TIME EVANGELISM JEFF IN 62-0603

43 027 And the--the world is such in a neurotic shape right now that they'll drive down the street ninety miles an hour to set in a beer joint and drink two hours before they go home. And it's a onslaught of...

Speak to someone, oh, my, they blow up. Like I was speaking the other night at a tabernacle, and about going to a hospital out here to try to take some of Brother Neville's calls. And every time I'd speak to a nurse or a doctor, they'd snap you, "I don't know nothing about it."

Well, I thought, "What's the matter? Everybody just letting off pressure, I guess." So... But the doctor, the psychiatrists are doctoring the psychiatrists. So--but there is a way out; that's Christ.

LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE S PINES NC 62-0609E

E-28 028 Now, we don't have to hurry, and scuffle, and act like the rest of the world. Quieten down. What's the matter with the Christian? The spirit of the world today is neurotic. But that's not the Spirit of Christ. Did you ever see Him get excited about something? Just as calm as He could be. He knowed exactly where He was standing.

Oh, what a blessed assurance is. Just like a baby, to lay your trust upon Him, and let Him take all your cares; for He cares for you. Don't try to do anything about it. He will do it already. He's promised He would do it. It's His business. As long as you're fooling with it, well, then, He can't have it. But when you turn it loose and let Him have it, He will take care of it for you. Yes, sir. Oh, I like that. What a perfect calmness the Christian ought to have.

IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY JEFF IN 63-0630E

215 103 I hear some say, "But Brother Branham, you better back up on that statement saying... The people are not neurotics. This people is not neurotics; they are only educated." They're educated neurotics. That's right. Yeah. "They're not neurotics; they're educated." Then I want to ask you a question. See, you understand? I want to ask you a question then. Please explain their actions of today if they're not neurotics. Tell me what makes them act like they do if they're not neurotics? See? Every fellow pulling for his denomination, greedy... Jesus wasn't like that. He wasn't in no hurry about nothing. See? He wasn't greedy, He was our Example.

INFLUENCE CHICAGO IL 63-0803E

21 014 And if our American people are setting the pace today before our children of smoking cigarettes, the women and the men drinking, and cards in the house, and--and dice, what kind of a--of a people will we have in the next race that is to come, or the next generation, rather, that is to come? It'll be a bunch of neurotics. And which I think the whole world is just about in that condition now. Then if this race, or this generation, rather, is like this, what will the next one produce? Then if there would be another, why, the whole human race, if it keeps going in the way it is, will become extinct altogether, because were killing ourselves and setting examples for others.