DEMON COMES BY IMPERSONATING YET WITH BLESSING 65 If I look out here and go to get wheat, I get wheat, but the weeds is all bound up, and they live on the same rain that fell for the wheat. And the rain was not sent for the weeds; it was sent for the wheat. But the rain being in the field, the wheat being—weeds being in the wheat field, got just as much benefit out of the rain as the rest of them did. And the same rain that made the wheat live, made the weed live.
All things in the natural types the spiritual as we're teaching. There it is, demonology, demons impersonating Christianity, yet with the blessing. That's not skim milk, brethren, if you can take it. See, see? Now, it's—it's truth.
53-0609A - Demonology, Religious Realm
Rev. William Marrion Branham 79 Now, we've got a deep something coming here, and I hope it's not too deep. Now, over in First Samuel 28, I want to read some Scripture here right at this time. I want you to listen closely. And I want to bring demons, show you how they work right in the church, and how Satan has a counterfeit for every real there is. Now, you can see according to the Bible, that demons come among Christians and they impersonate.
And many times we have declared people to be Christians when they said, "I believe in Jesus Christ." Why, the devils believe the same thing and tremble. That's no sign you're saved.
One of these nights I want to get on election, and then you'll see what salvation means. See? It's nothing you had to do with it in the first place or the last place, or nothing you can do about it. God saves a man, unconditionally. Boy that sunk deep, didn't it? I just might as well get that out of your system while we're at it. All right.
53-0609A - Demonology, Religious Realm
Rev. William Marrion Branham
2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. DEMON IMPERSONATING CHRISTIANITY YET GETTING BLESSING
65 If I look out here and go to get wheat, I get wheat, but the weeds is all bound up, and they live on the same rain that fell for the wheat. And the rain was not sent for the weeds; it was sent for the wheat. But the rain being in the field, the wheat being—weeds being in the wheat field, got just as much benefit out of the rain as the rest of them did. And the same rain that made the wheat live, made the weed live.
All things in the natural types the spiritual as we're teaching. There it is, demonology, demons impersonating Christianity, yet with the blessing. That's not skim milk, brethren, if you can take it. See, see? Now, it's—it's truth
53-0609A - Demonology, Religious Realm
Rev. William Marrion Branham
CARNAL IMPERSONATIONS IS EVIL IN THE SIGTH OF GOD 23 And today if God sends something and the Church turns it down, how can we expect anything else but confusion? How can we expect anything else but denominations, and barriers, and setups, and all kinds of impersonations, and everything today, because we turn it down. When God starts to do something the—in some, maybe a realm of people, the others will say, "Well, that isn't our denomination. Well, we'll just get our own man to do that."
And you cause carnal impersonations, which is evil in the sight of God, and takes away from the real thing. That's right.
58-0107 - The Queen Of Sheba
Rev. William Marrion Branham CARNAL COMPARISON CAUSES HINDERER TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, IT CAUSES CONFLICT 163 Now, I'm past my time of speaking with you, 'cause you've got to hurry back just in a little bit. But how many loves a heart-to-heart talk? You seem that you—you understand it. We could talk hours after hours. And now, it's… To say, "Brother Branham, could you explain this to me?"
I can't; I wished I could, but I can't. It's impossible. You can't explain supernatural things. And when you try to do it, it's just as He told me: you cause carnal comparison to rise. See, you do it. It's just actual, it'll do that, and it's—it's a hindrance to the body of Christ. Do you know what I mean? It—it—it causes conflict.
56-0408A - What Is A Vision?
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATING SPIRIT WILL DROWN YOU AS IT DID PHARAOH AND HIS ARMY 69 Now Pharaoh's army tried to impersonate, because they wasn't called and they had not that Life. Into the… The promise wasn't given to Pharaoh. The promise wasn't give him for a promised land.
70 And an impersonator, trying to follow a real believer who is called to such, only makes a mockery out of it. That's what's the matter with our religious system today, is too many people trying to impersonate the Holy Spirit, too many people trying to impersonate the baptism, too many people trying to impersonate the apostolic age. It's for believers, and that alone. God has made a way, rich in mercy, that His children would not perish. He has made a way for them.
71 Now, Pharaoh trying to pursue on, he drowned in the very waters that saved Moses and his group. Now, Moses did not drown, because God is rich in mercy to them who are following His provided way. Amen.
65-0119 - The God Who Is Rich In Mercy
Rev. William Marrion Branham
144 Oh, that's what caused the trouble. Every one of them perished right in the wil… or right—right in the sea, Pharaoh and his army. They seen human beings walking by supernatural Power, so they come back around and tried to impersonate that, without being included in the blessing. And when they did, they perished. It's carnal comparison.
145 A man that tries to do that, try to impersonate something, then he is making a carnal comparison of a real Christian.
65-0123 - Broken Cisterns
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION WORKS IS THE MARK OF DEVIL 121 Notice, the mark of the beast is the mark of an apostasy, the devil, the works of the devil. Jesus said, "By their church membership, by their theology, by their seminary experience? By their fruit you shall know them."
Now, so the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness. That's the fruit of the Spirit. And the fruit, that's the mark of the Holy Spirit, showing that Divine love has anchored in the heart and the things of the world is dead.
Now, the mark of the devil is impersonation: works, not grace. The works shadow things to come. Hypocrisy, going to church, pretending to be a Christian, living like the world, having affairs with the world, going out and acting like the world. And so very close till both sides will be looking exactly, deceive the very elect.
Here's a church member, goes to church regular, a very fine person, goes to church, good person, morally good; but yet, right down in the depths of their innermost being there's never experience of Jesus abiding.
Look at Esau and Jacob. Why, Esau was twice as good a guy as Jacob; sure he was. But Jacob had one thing. He had recompense to the reward. He seen that birthright and counted it the greatest thing on earth.
56-0603 - The Lamb's Book Of Life
Rev. William Marrion Branham COMPARISON, IMPERSONATION GOT THE CHURCH INTO MESS 93 Look at the little form, not long ago, when the "little David" system come out. See? And every church had to have a little David, little girl preachers and boy preachers. And what was it? Comparing, comparison, trying to impersonate. That's what got us into the mess that we're in now. That's exactly.
63-0412M - The World Is Falling Apart
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERNATING MAKES YOU MISERABLE, TRY TO BE SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT 30 Now, I want to say something. You can never make yourself something that you're not. If you're just impersonating Christianity, no matter if you're preaching the Gospel, you need an altar call in your soul. That's right. If you're just trying to act like that person that's a Christian, you're miserable yourself, knowing in your heart that you're not.
54-0306 - The Unconditional Covenant That God Made With His People
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATING SPIRIT IS TO THROW THE PEOPLE OFF THE TRACK 114 And no doubt Pharaoh said, "A cheap magician trick." So he goes and gets his Jannes and Jambres, said, "We can do those things, too." And they threw down their stick, and they become serpents. Now, what could Moses do? What was it? It was to show him that every genuine thing of God, the devil's got an impersonator for it. He impersonates to throw the people off the track.
What did Moses do? He said, "Well, I guess I made a mistake; I better go back." He just stood still for he'd carried out his commission to the letter. Then the first thing you know Moses' serpent eat up the other one. See?
Did you ever think what become of that other serpent? Where did he go to? Moses picked up the stick and went on out with it. He worked miracles with it. And that serpent was on the inside of the other stick. That's wonderful, isn't it? Yes, sir.
63-0319 - The Second Seal
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION SPIRIT PUT YOU IN TROUBLE 17 Here would be a type of the natural and spiritual, meeting. And when the natural and spiritual meets, there is always a collision, because they run right head-on into each other. And Israel here, would, I want to represent it as a spiritual Church; and Moab as the natural church, just the church, what we call, church natural.
18 And we're all sure that there is a—a church, and there is a Bride coming out of that church. We know that, that that is true.
19 And they clash here. And we notice that when they clashed here, it come under something that I would like to speak a moment on. As soon as they clashed, and one seen what the other one was doing, there was a great impersonation, one of the other.
20 And that's where we find it today, that we do get too much impersonations. And when you do that, you're always in trouble. You cannot live the other fellow's life. We cannot impersonate something. We must be just what we are. You mustn't (never) try to. If this fellow does something; because he does it, you think you have to, too. You don't do that. You're an individual, to God. And we mustn't try to impersonate each other.
65-0427 - Does God Change His Mind?
Rev. William Marrion Branham 12 Now, if I tried to impersonate Mr. Graham, I'd find myself in trouble right quick, 'cause he's smart, shrewd, educated, a real preacher. Well, I'm not. Well, maybe, if Mr. Graham tried to find himself impersonating me, he'd be in trouble too.
So there you are. So we can't do that. We have got to do what God has revealed to us to do. Brother Graham is doing that; God has revealed to him a world wide revival, and he's making a good show of it too. And I appreciate him. And I'm trying my best by the revelation that God has given me to minister to the sick people, to what He told me to do
55-0116A - The Believer's Position In Christ
Rev. William Marrion Branham SATAN IMPERSONATING CHRIST IN HIS RIDING 287 And notice, Christ is not seen any more (See?) from the time there. But He is on a white horse; so if this guy is riding a white horse, he's only an impersonator of Christ. See? Get that? Notice, the rider on the white horse don't have any name. He might use two or three titles, but he hasn't got any name. But Christ has a Name. What is it? The Word of God. That's what it is. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word made flesh. See?
289 The rider has no name, but Christ is called the Word of God. That's what He is. He's called that. Now, He's got a Name that no man knows, but He's called the Word of God. This guy isn't called nothing (See?), but he's on a white horse.
The rider has no arrows for his bow. Did you notice? He had a bow, but there's nothing said about having any arrows; so he must be a bluffer. That's right. Maybe he's got a lot of thunder and no lightning, but you find out Christ had both lightning and thunder; for out of His mouth goes a sharp two-edged Sword, and He smites the nations. And this guy can't smite nothing (See?), but he's playing the part of a hypocrite. He's going forth riding on a white horse, going out to conquer.
63-0318 - The First Seal
Rev. William Marrion Branham ALL IMPERSONATORS WILL COMES TO NOTHING 70 Unbelief. And men who mock and scoff and make fun of the anointed Church of the living God shall perish someday in a hell. Won't only be burning for a few minutes; it might be a long time.
So it's holy grounds, God's anointed stands on there. No uncircumcised or unclean thing can enter that spot. That is true. If the impersonators try to act like that they're doing it. You'll find out they'll soon come to naught.
59-1004E - Why Cry? Speak!
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMITATION CAUSES CONFUSION 135 Now you say, "Brother Branham, do we, should we speak with tongues?" Absolutely. That's gifts of God. But those gifts of God, without these virtues in them, makes a stumble block to the unbeliever. It's not accepted by God.
136 This has to be first. And when you have faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly love, then the Holy Ghost comes down and seals you as a unit, the same as He seals the church ages as a unit. The way He makes His Bride is the way He makes His individual; made out of same material, like Eve was made out of Adam, a rib from the side. Here is the things that you have to have first. You can't impersonate them. You can't imitate them. They've got to be God-sent and God-born. Imitation only causes confusion.
62-1104M - Blasphemous Names
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION OF CHRISTIANITY TAKES YOU AWAY FROM GOD 25 Don't try to make yourself odd to be a Christian, because (You see?), you take yourself away from God and you—you—you… If you can understand it, this is that third pull. You should've caught that the other day. See. So then just…
You remember, there'll be no impersonation like there was of the other two. See? So that's as far as you—you should know. Now just—just remember that you see now there's something taking place in this room, and there's something here, there's… There's actual in this room, Angels, voice of God (See?), but how do you… You can't… If you can't hear the natural voice without something to send it out, how are you going to hear the spiritual voice?
63-0324M - Questions And Answers On The Seals
Rev. William Marrion Branham
74 Now, just look here. You see how perfect everywhere you go. If I could stand here and talk the things that's revealed in that room, I tell you, it'd swing your heads around; but how you going to do it when you got a whole thing here.
And then you, somehow or other, when you get away from people, there it begins to open up, mysteries; then you see things that you're daresn't to say to the people too, 'cause (You see?), if they would they'd start little isms.
And then just look what this little gift of healing has done, how it confused the church. Everybody had a sensation; everybody had this. And right down in my heart, God knows it's the truth, I knowed it wasn't right 'cause He told me so. See? But it's a false impersonation; it's only, throw the people off. Now, that's right.
63-0324M - Questions And Answers On The Seals
Rev. William Marrion Branham
IMPERSONATION SPIRIT UPSET PEOPLE'S MIND 50 But then when the real true servant comes on, with all the impersonation to it, it's to upset the peoples' mind. Satan does that. And those who can't discern right from wrong, they just tumble over; but the elected won't do it. The Bible said he wouldn't be able to deceive the elected.
And now, just before the coming of Christ, the Bible said there would be false christs arise and would claim to be Christ, and would say, "Lo," the people say, "He's in the desert." Don't believe it. "Lo, He's in the secret chamber." Don't believe it. "For as the sun shineth from the east unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be." See? Yes, He'll—He'll—He'll appear, and it'll be a universal thing. And now, that will…
63-0319 - The Second Seal
Rev. William Marrion Branham 34 When Moses went down into Egypt, to deliver the children of Israel, with only a stick in his hand for vindication, with the God of Heaven behind him, he performed a miracle. There come impersonators behind him, and doing the same thing he did. See? Now, they come second, after he did it first. Then they come around, because they were copying after what he did, impersonating the original. We find that.
And now you say, "Well, that was in the days of Moses."
But the same Scripture says that they'll come again in the last days. "A Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these men of reprobate mind concerning Truth." See? Impersonations, all kinds of things to upset people. And then if…
35 This Rapture which is coming to pass, and anything that God has in the line of His Word, there's always something to come out to upset That if they can. It's—it's—it's Satan's purpose to do that.
36 As the brother here, from the meeting up there at Las Vegas, said, "Satan said the world was his dominion, and—and that being his headquarters up there."
I know that Satan is the god of this world. Every nation under heaven is controlled by him. Exactly. This world belongs to Satan, but Jesus will take it over. He offered it to Him one day. And He refused it, but, He said, 'cause He knowed He'd be Heir to it in the times to come.
65-1204 - The Rapture
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION IS BLASPHEMY BEFORE GOD 91 Christ, look how they hated Him. But He come exactly the way the Word said He would come. But being that He was a prophet, they blasphemed themselves away from the Kingdom of God by calling the Spirit of God, which was discerning and so forth, an unclean spirit. Said He was a—He was a fortuneteller or a devil… That is a… Fortuneteller is a devil (See?), devil spirit. Certainly. Did you know that? Absolutely. Fortunetelling is an impersonation of a prophet, which is absolutely blasphemy before God.
63-0324E - The Seventh Seal
Rev. William Marrion Branham DEVIL COMES WITH IMPERSONATION TO BLIND YOUR EYES 73 I'm closing right now. I got several more here I want to talk about, but I'm going to talk about you and I for a few minutes.
What about us? Here we are celebrating the fiftieth year of Pentecost in Louisiana. And actually, signs that never happened at the beginning is greater than the… They're greater now. That was the breaking of the fallow ground, getting ready for the real truth to be sowed into it. And when someone come along sowing the seed, you organized it and drowned the thing out. Carnal impersonations come up to impersonate.
Don't you know that's the work of the devil to try to blind your eyes? Don't you know there was false Jesuses rose up before the real Christ came? It's only to take away. It's the devil trying to get the thing away. That's the same thing it's been today, trying to draw you away. Men with wrong forms, and creeds, and things, trying to impersonate, how can they do it? The Bible said they would, as Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses. But said, "Their folly will be made manifest."
Moses had one thing to do: stand true to his commission. And finally the time come when they throwed down their sticks and tried to do the same thing. Then Moses' stick swallowed them up. Did you ever think where them sticks went? All right.
62-1125M - Convinced And Then Concerned
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION CAUSES FAILURE 29 Now, this man that we're going to speak of for just a few moments, then I want to give you a testimony… This man Elijah, the great prophet, was a man who lived in that constant atmosphere. He was a called man of Nazarite birth. "All gifts and callings are without repentance." It's nothing. You can't make one hair black or white; you can't add one cubic to your stature. We only have carnal impersonations when we try to impersonate something that God hasn't made us. If we try to do something that God hasn't called us to do, we'll be a total failure doing it. If man would try to make himself woman, woman man, how would you do it?
I met that woman that they supposed to have a surgical test and be made a man, made a woman whatever it was, in Italy, in Rome. There she was, a disgrace to being a woman, drunk as she could be, walking up-and-down the streets and, and, oh, a horriblest sight you ever seen.
30 Notice, you can't make yourself anything different from what God intended you to be. Anything else is an impersonation. Therefore if your conversion is only because you're trying to hide behind something, or trying to make yourself a better person, you're only playing the part of a hypocrite. Until Christ has actually come to your life, and changed you, and brought you into an atmosphere, that's the difference of it. That's the reason we go through so many different forms and saying they have to do this. Jesus said, "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life."
56-0129 - The Supernatural
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATING SPIRIT MAKES YOU TRY TO DRESS LIKE OTHER 66 Today is the day, as I said about the prophets packing their Bibles and impersonations. It's a great day of impersonations. Paint your steps red next week and find out what your neighbor will do. He will paint his red, too. Wear a little black hat to church and find out what your neighbor will do. They'll wear a black hat, too. They want… Get a new suit of clothes and see how nice it is, and watch your neighbor will ask where you got it. It's an impersonation. They want to match. Want to be matched.
And, brother, I don't care if my trousers match with my coat or my shirt matches my tie. I want my experience to match God's Bible. That's the kind of matching that the church ought to do. It's exactly right. My Lord raised from the dead, and He's alive tonight. He's your Lord, also. And He's here to bless you and to help you.
56-1206 - A Secondhanded Robe
Rev. William Marrion Branham 34 Now, listen. Anything's hybrid is no good. You've got to take the original, the way God made it, then you've got something that's real.
Now, we find out then that this church of Israel, as they passed on, God had fed them, and taken care of them, and done everything for them. And finally they looked over to the Philistines, and the Amorites, and the… and different ones, and said, "We want a king! They got something we ain't got."
That's the same thing the people does today. One of these, our sisters, will look over at the television and see Gloria Swanson, or whoever they… some of them women with a certain kind of a dress on, and they just can't stand it till they get one. See? You see some woman downtown, "Oh, isn't that darling?" What do you care what she ate and could wear? People, they're just that way, I said it's the day of—of impersonation, somebody wants to impersonate the other. You take the… There's so many Elvis Presley's now, I—I tell you, you couldn't stack them up in boxcars, because he become popular in carnal comp-… impersonations!
60-1206 - The Smyrnaean Church Age
Rev. William Marrion Branham
86 We swing with our community. It's just a natural. Paint your steps red, and watch what your neighbor does. They'll do it, too. Uh-huh. One of you sisters get a certain kind of a dress, or a hat, and watch what your neighbors does. See? It's a—it's an impersonation. It's a matching time.
87 We don't care whether our trousers match our coats. We want our experience to match the Word, see, and God.
64-0206B - Paradox
Rev. William Marrion Branham IMPERSONATION ALWAYS FOLLOW SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE 48 Moses done the phenomena. And there it went into the wilderness, Korah tried to say, "Well, now, you try to say you're the only one that can do this. There is more holy man besides you."
49 You know what taken place, don't you? God said, "Just separate yourself from them." See?
50 See, we always had that. When the supernatural is done, the impersonators follows It. It's got to be that way. And that impersonation is what brings in, if…
51 Like Congressman Upshaw. His widow flew in, last night, to be in the meeting here. He was healed in the services. You all understand. He always had this expression, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." That's exactly right. You can't be nothing that you—you're not.
64-0206B - Paradox
Rev. William Marrion Branham CARNAL IMPERSONATION CORRUPT AND BRINGS REPROACH ON GOD CAUSE What if your little boy seen you shaving with—with your straight razor, and he'd say, "Daddy, I want that razor"? You know better than to give that child that razor. Well, what if he'd say, "Daddy, I seen you do it"? Well, that's different. You're an adult. You know how to use the razor. You're an adult. You—you—you accumulated the intelligence, to know how to use the razor.
91 And then, lot of times, we see Pentecostal people see someone speak in tongues, or something does a healing service, and then our whole system becomes corrupt with a bunch of carnal impersonations going out. They see others doing it, but God might not have called you to do such a thing. And what does it do? It brings carnal impersonations, which brings reproach upon the very cause that God sent. What does it? Systems.
92 If the Assemblies of God has got a man out doing something, and God is with him, and proven, we see it like that, then the other groups has got to have one, too.
63-0412M - The World Is Falling Apart
Rev. William Marrion Branham
IMPERSONATION SPIRIT WILL FIND YOU OUT That's the reason, the very purpose that Jesus came to the earth, was to save those that God, through His foreknowledge, seen that wanted to be saved, see, because the whole world was condemned. And I don't see how we could teach it any other way than the foreknowledge of God, and the Bible plainly says that He "knows the end from the beginning," and can tell it.
32 Therefore, when a—a person tries to be something that they are not, they are only making an impersonation, and sooner or later it'll find you out. Your sins find you out. You cannot cover them. There is only one covering for sin, that's the Blood of Jesus Christ, and It cannot be applied unless God has called you from the foundation of the world. That's what that Blood was shed for; not to be tramped upon, and made fun of, and—and jobbed at, and—and evilly spoke of, and—and so forth. It was for a direct purpose. That's right. Not to be played with, not to be impersonated, by saying that the sins are covered when they're not. And no man can have his sins covered lest his name was put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. Jesus said, Himself, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that the Father hath," past tense, "given Me, will come to Me." That's right. So you can't make the Words lie. They are there for Truth and for a correction.
63-0714M - Why Cry? Speak!
Rev. William Marrion Branham
IMPERSONATION SPIRIT CANNOT GET SOUL SAVED 249 You say, "How? That sounds very…" Well, how about Jesus telling where that fish had the coin in his mouth? How about the prophet telling the man that the mules had returned back? Just, see, you just… The devil has an impersonation, yes. But you never hear of one of them preaching the Gospel and getting souls saved, see, by it. See? See? You ought to know better.
250 So then we find out, told her that, said, "Take that handkerchief and lay it upon your sister, for, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she'll live."
64-0418B - A Paradox
Rev. William Marrion Branham
CARNAL IMPERSONATION GIVES UNCERTAIN SOUND OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES 48 Then we got carnal impersonations of It. Oh, my! It's just pitiful. Look, I want to…
How many Pentecostals are in here? Raise up your hand. All right. Look, you Pentecostals, a few years ago God really fell upon you and you begin to speak with tongues. That's right. But what did the devil do? He come around and give a carnal impersonation of that. He made out something that wasn't right, got the people down and speaking in tongues, and making them say certain words and things to make them speak in tongues, and so forth; and man living with another man's wife, and all kinds of things, and all kinds, some of them drinking, smoking, and everything, still speaking with tongues. What did he do that for? To make the real trumpet give an uncertain sound to the people. Then who can prepare himself for battle? See?
61-0618 - Revelation, Chapter Five #2
Rev. William Marrion Branham PEOPLE WANT TO IMPERSONATE ELIJAH 27 And then, as we see the pattern of our lesson today, of Elijah during his reign, he—or his pilgrimage on earth, why, he was a great, mighty man. God was using him in mighty ways, with mighty power. And we find out that during this time, there was a group of impersonators who tried to impersonate Elijah, who tried to do the same things Elijah done. And so we find the same thing today: impersonation of Christianity, people who try to act like Christians, who try to make themselves Christians. You can't do that. God has to do that. See? He's the only One Who can do it.
So they formed a school and called it the school of the prophets. And they all went up to the school of the prophets and they educated them. And I could imagine all those preachers up there wearing the same kind of coat that Elijah wore. I can imagine trying to impersonate him on his voice, the way he spoke, and—and way he presented himself, everyone trying to do the same thing, because Elijah was a great man used of God.
And we find the same thing today. I was listening to the radio broadcast not long ago; they got Billy Grahams all over this country since Billy was in Louisville, everybody trying to impersonate the same thing almost: comb their hair the same way, and—and wear the same thing, and same kind of voice and so forth. But you can't do that. You just got to be who you are and what God made you to be. That's right. And so we find how that perhaps in them days the same things took place.
56-1125M - A Secondhanded Robe
Rev. William Marrion Branham
WHEN YOU BECOME IMPERSONATOR DOWN IN YOUR HEART THERE WILL BE NO PEACE 30 And therefore, when people claim to be Christians, or impersonate Christianity, or try to act like they're a Christian, when down in their heart they don't have the peace of God, you only become an actor. And, you know, people really know that. Your neighbor knows that you're just acting that way. Certainly. She see you get mad, and fly loose, and beat the dog around the house, and holler at your husband, and scat him under the bed when he comes in. And you do the same to… Why, they know that's not Christianity acting. Certainly.
When you really get saved, He changes you. You don't have to act; you just act natural. You're just yourself.
55-1111 - Where I Think Pentecost Failed
Rev. William Marrion Branham
IMPERSONATION MAKES YOU A MISERABLE PERSON
10 And now, I'm sure that in this we have found lots of impersonations. And an impersonation, friend… A person that would impersonate something is the most miserable person that I would know of. Isn't it much better just to be yourself? As Congressman Upshaw used to say, "Don't try to be nothing that you hain't." Well, that's pretty good. Don't try to be nothing that you are not. Just be yourself. And then, if you want to be a Christian, just ask Christ. He will take your old nature out, put a new nature in; then you don't have to impersonate anything; it's just your normal life that you're living.
57-0325 - The Lamb And The Dove
Rev. William Marrion Branham
