Here not long ago, I was preaching in a Methodist church, one night, and I thought the Lord was firing me up good. And I was just a preaching away, and I said, “You don’t go to hell because you get drunk. You don’t go to hell because you commit adultery. You don’t go to hell because you smoke cigarettes, things like that.” Some little old Methodist mother had just as much as she could stand, you know. She was setting there. And jumps up to her feet (a great nice church) and said, “Reverend Branham, I resent that. What do you go to hell for?” I said, “Because you believe not.” That’s right. The Bible said, “He that believeth not is condemned already.” Jesus said, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall not come into condemnation, but’s already passed from death to Life.”

Faith in the Son of God, 1952-07-15, Hammond, IN, §22