HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721 77 But, and then how we say, "But we took it." And if you say you took it, and the patient shows no results, he didn't take it. That's all. How if that clock on the wall wasn't such a busybody. See? I'd like to stay here and bring down real strong for our--our people, since the Gospel has been proved these things, and they claim they take it, and they show that they don't take it. How can a person read the Scriptures upon the little thing that I talk about, about women with the bobbed hair and wearing shorts, and so forth like that, how can they call themselves Christians when the very Medicine Itself says that it's different. See? How? You say, "But I danced in the Spirit. I spoke in tongues." That don't mean one thing. Your own life proves that you didn't take it. See? You said you--you took It, but you didn't. For you still are showing all the symptoms that the Medicine is supposed to cure. And the Medicine in the Gospel line is a guaranteed cure. It's got to be. Now, you see, you got to show results.
HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721 78 You take a person says that they're, "I am. I'm a believer. I believe." Let the Gospel Light strike them, brother, they take it right now and they'll show results. Certainly. You'll not see that man in any more pool rooms; you'll not see him out here with a cigarette in his hand; you won't see him drinking. Oh, no. You won't see him flirting with other women. No, no, no. I don't care how much they throw their female flesh before him, he'll turn his head towards the skies and look towards Christ. What is it? It shows that the Remedy took effect. And if it don't take effect, you say, "Well, I know I took it," well, then where you at today then? You're dying. You show... I'm looking at you as diagnosing your case by the--by the Bible, that you're still in sin. And the wages of sin is death. Don't think it has to be made any plainer. See, your own actions prove; your own actions prove that you didn't take it. You thought you did. Amen. You--you might've been all sincere in doing it, but you didn't do it. For if you did, God promised it would take effect on you. And the old sin is still there, the old Adam nature still lingers there, the old unbelief. Yet you try to make yourself, before your fellow man, say, "Well, I'm a believer. Oh, glory to God. Yes, I'm a believer." But, you see, It didn't help you any. Maybe the patient itself wasn't even predestinated to--to the Medicine. If it did, it'll never take effect. That's right. You see?
HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721 80 But look at that little immoral woman when the Light struck her, there was something laying there to take care of her condition. See? If we believe and sincerely confess, this Remedy of God's way will takes its effect. God has a provided way for these things. Now, see, men will go, say, "Well, I joined the church. That settles it with me." That isn't God's provided way. God's provided way is repentance, confessions, and showing the results, bringing forth fruit meet for repentance, showing sincerity. If you people will just do that this morning, that's going to be prayed for... And you people that hear this tape, all over the world, and after this tape is played and the minister or the person that's playing it in congregation groups out in the jungles or wherever you are, that's playing it, will first make your confession clear, and then come with nothing in your heart at all, but faith, and be prayed for, there's the Medicine will take place.
HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721 83 Jesus said, "Repent, every one of you." I mean Peter did on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." When you thoroughly repent and believe on the Lord, and are baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, you make God a liar if you don't receive the Holy Ghost. If... Jesus said this, the last commission to His church, "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." And you see those signs following a believer, and you come up and that believer lays hands on you, and something doesn't take place, then there's something wrong with your belief. See? The believer... God promised a provided way.
HE.CARES.DO.YOU.CARE?_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-4 SUNDAY_ 63-0721 84 We try to find comfort by saying, "I don't have to listen." No, that's true; you don't have to listen. But if you are predestinated to Eternal Life, you will listen to it and you'll rejoice to It. It's your Comfort. It's the thing you've longed for all your life. It's--It's that Pearl, that you're--you're ready to forsake everything. See? You want It because you know it's God's loving care for you. It's something to settle the sin question, to settle the unbelief, to settle everything to you, if you want it. It's he that's really sick and knows he's sick, that hunts a physician. See? Not he that's not sick, doesn't need one, Jesus said. But it's those who are sick. If you can realize your condition, then you've got to do as He said do. Then it's got to take place, or God told something was wrong. See?
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 174 "Now," I said, "in this case, I--I'm giving an--a soul examination. See? And God, for the soul, only has one Instrument (That's right.); that's His Word. That's His Word." And Jesus said in St. John 5:24, 'He that heareth My Word...' Now, that hear doesn't mean just to listen at a noise. That 'hear' means 'to receive It.' 'Who can receive My Word,' (Amen.) 'he that hears It!' (Don't stand still, call It nonsense, 'Them things, there's nothing to It. I don't believe That.') 'He that hears My Word...' (Uh-huh.) That's the Word of Jesus, which, He is the Word. There you are. 'If you can hear My Word,' He said, 'and believe on Him that sent Me, he has passed from death unto Life; and shall not even come to the judgment, but's already passed from it.' Amen." I said, "How's your heart beating now?" He said, "I believe It. I have heard It. I have received It." I said, "Then according to the Head Specialist, the Chief Operator, the Chief Doctor of Eternal Life says, 'You've passed from death unto Life and shall never come to the condemnation.'"
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 176 Said, "When I heard you preach on the Name of Jesus Christ for water baptism, I walked right in behind you and you baptized me." Said, "I... The man that I once was, I'm not that man no more. Something's happened to me. I used to care nothing about It and went on the other way, but I've turned and started back this way. And my heart burns day and night to get closer to Him. Every Word of It, I believe. I say, 'Amen.' to every bit of It. I don't care how It cuts me; I want to measure right up to It. And I have as far as I know." I said, "Seems to me like your heart's beating pretty good. I--I believe you're spiritually able now." He said, "Wonder if there would be when the rapture comes, can I go in it, Brother Branham?" I said, "It's not me to say who goes in or who does not."
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 180 He said, "Well, I'd like to be living, I want--I want to see the rapture so bad." I said, "All right, let me see what the--the Science Book says here, to it, and the soul science here." I said, "Well, It says this in II Thessalonians the 5th chapter, It said, 'We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (that means "hinder") those that are (resting) asleep. For the trumpet of God shall sound, and those who are asleep (or resting) shall wake up first (take on immortality). Then we which are alive at that day (at that time after they have done raised up... See?) then we shall be changed in a moment, a twinkle of an eye, and meet with them; and then go up to meet the Lord in the air, be caught up together with them.' Whether you sleep, whether you don't, whether you do or whether you don't; wherever you're buried, if you're not even buried at all, you're coming anyhow. There's nothing can hold you. You'll be there." I said, "Brother Dauch, if Jesus doesn't come until my great-great-great-grandchildren's grandchildren, you'll still be there right on a moment just exactly, and will be there before they're ever even changed, if they go." That's right. Amen.
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 181 There is a coming blessing just as the same as there is a coming wrath. Oh, we have to be looking for one of it tonight. You have to either be looking for the wrath to fall upon you and for destruction, or either you have to be looking for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The same God that promised one... I'm so glad. I'm watching for the coming of that glad Millennium day, When our blessed Lord shall come and catch His waiting Bride away; Oh! my heart is yearning and groaning for that day of sweet release, When our Jesus shall come back to earth again. Then sin and sorrow, pain and death of this dark world shall cease, In that glorious reign with Jesus of a thousand years of peace; (Oh, my. "And shall forever be with the Lord..." See?)
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 182 What God said, it's got to come to pass. "They shall build houses; they shall inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and they shall eat the fruit of them. They shall not plant and another inherit it. They'll plant their own vineyards and stay with it." Amen. Amen. "They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain." Hallelujah. When this mortal takes on immortality, this--this death is swallowed up in victory, then we shall see Him as He is and have a body like His Own glorious body. Oh, what a time to come. WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 184 The same God and the same prophets that predicted the Word of God, or the wrath to be poured out, told--also told of these coming blessings. I'm so glad. God never does give a--a nation a--a destruction without warning. He never gives a man a destruction without warning it. And now if He does that, we have got something that's happened to us, the vindication of the signs of the last days with us, the great Holy Spirit moving among us and charging the church with His Presence, vindicating His Word. Then the Church is getting ready for a climb into the skies one of these days by the power of God. Because it's a warning to lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset us, that we might fly with patience this race that's set before us, to the Author and Finisher of our faith.
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 185 God bless you, church. Hold to God's unchanging hand. Yes, sir. If you feel His Presence, go to Him. If there's anything wrong in your heart, make it right. We ain't got much time left; the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do you believe Him? Oh, my. Won't that be wonderful there? What a time, when I see the old veterans back yonder walking down through that paradise. Oh, my. I'm looking for that hour. WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 186 I remember hearing my brother say, when coming back from across the seas, from the old battlefields and things, said, "Those old veterans, when they come in the sight of that Statue of Liberty, they rolled them cripples up there so they could see the Statue of Liberty." You see that first on a ship when you come up, 'cause it's so high. "And see that arm standing up there," said, "them men just break down and cry. And just them great big men stand there, just fall right over on the deck and start crying." What was it? A sign of liberty. Everything that they ever loved laid right behind that sign there. Oh, but what will it be when I hear the old ship of Zion blow that morning and I see the banners a-waving, when the battle's over and the victory's won (Hallelujah.), and we're coming home, where death, sin and hell is conquered; and there's no more sin, no more death, no more sorrow. I can just hear the whistle blowing. Oh, we're nearing the City. Yes, sir. The breakers are coming in; the old ship's moving into her place. God, help us to live for that hour.
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 188 Lord Jesus, we are a people who are--are trying our best, with all that's in us to walk in the Light of the Gospel of Your great Gospel that You died to make right. We are so thankful to see in this evil dark days that we're living now in this hour, that we see the signs appearing. O God, as it is the handwriting on the wall, we thank Thee, Lord, that we can see it and know that deliverance is close at hand. We preach; we cross the country; we see You work great signs, show Yourself daily, every year. There's not a year passes but what (great) His Supernatural sign is striking the earth. And we see it, knowing that the great army of God marches on. Oh, not many in number, but what a powerful group that's got Eternal Life. Said, "They shall run through a troop and leap over a wall." Yes, the troop of death will have no holders to it, She'll run right through it, leap over the wall between natural and supernatural, and go into the arms of God, into that great eternity. Lord God, we thank You for this. We know the time is approaching at hand.
WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT_ JEFF.IN V-8 N-3 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0724 190 I pray, God, that tonight if there be some here who doesn't know You, who's never made their peace... And maybe tonight, while we've been speaking, a little Voice has been speaking down in their heart, "I feel a warning that I can't be around much longer." O God, may they put their house in order right now. May everything be set. May the coldness... Maybe they're Christians, but they just haven't... They've lived under this so long and seen so many things, they--they've just lost the value of it. It's... The things, they take it lightly instead of real deeply and sincerely. O God, let us check up tonight; grant it, knowing that these great things are only warning us of the soon rapturing Church. And if we're laden with sin, with unbelief, and with slothfulness, we shall not make that rapture. We know it, Lord, so we pray that You'll burn into us the Holy Ghost, down into our hearts. O God, set our souls on fire with Your blessing. Help us to understand.
WHAT.SHALL.I.DO.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-6 SUNDAY_ 63-1124M 218 And now, as you have our heads bowed... "Faith, by faith, and God, You help me to be honest. But knowing that You promised, 'That he that will come to Me I will in no wise turn him out, and I'll give him Eternal Life and I'll raise him up at the last days. He that will confess Me before man, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels. He that heareth..." The real true interpretation of St. John 5:24, there is, "He that understandeth, that receiveth My Word. He that receiveth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and will not be called to the judgment." You won't come to the judgment bar like Oswald will; but you've passed with a free pardon from death unto Life. "Lord, I don't know how; I don't know why, but--but I believe it's happened. I believe that in my heart, my unbelief is gone. I can freely say, 'Amen,' to every Word that You say. And I accept It right now. I have believe it."
TOKEN.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-6 THURSDAY_ 63-1128E 189 And we read over there in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Word..." Now, the real translation of that is not "he that heareth." That's the King James. The real translation in the Hebrew and that, is this, "He that receiveth My Word," not he that heareth; anybody can hear It, sinners and everything else. But, "he that receiveth," can take It all, not, "he receiveth one of My Words." "He that receiveth My Word, and believeth on him that sent Me..." When you receive the Word, you receive Him. Everything He said do, that you're willing and happy to do. "He that receives My Word and believes on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall not go through the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." Oh, what a promise. "When I see this Token, I will pass over you."
TOKEN.THE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-6 THURSDAY_ 63-1128E 190 He expects us now to display His Token to all of Satan's unbelieving cults and denominations of this world, that we believe that what He has promised. Like the seed of Abraham, He's able to keep... No matter how scientific, how many astronauts, how many scientists raise up and prove this or prove that, and next year have to take it back, we don't care what they say. All of our education can never give you Life. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1122-280 Who is your little queen in the home? She ministers food to you. Is that right? (What you're late on now.) But when she--when she ministers to you, that's what... The Bride ministers to Christ, the Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but every Word." See? She ministers the Word to the King, manifesting His promise Word in the age that She's a-living in. Amen. Ah, I said something then, you didn't get it, but... Notice. Oh, my. That was a good one. See? Ministering in the age, the Word. Now, notice. And She came--He came, and ten thousands times ten thousands came to Him; and judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life; and they were judged thus. Who was this that come? The Bride which did not have to come to judgment; she's free from judgment. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1122-282 Another book was opened which was the Book of Life, and those who had their name on the Book of Life had to be judged out of that Book. And Judas Iscariot professed to be a believer, and he had his name written among them on the Book of Life. Is that right? He claimed to have Eternal Life. And his name was put on the Book of Life. So he has to... Why, he has to be judged then to see why did he condemn the Word of Life then, sell out for thirty pieces of silver. Some sells out to be a Methodist, Baptist or whatmore. Sold out his position from the Book of Life. And he'll judge--he'll have to be--stand there and judged by that, by the Word. See? That's why Judas had to do it. See? Judas has to come to the judgment. His name was on the Book of Life, but that don't mean he's saved. He has to stand the judgment. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1123-283 The sleeping virgin will stand right there under the same--same things. Notice, Jesus said in St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Word (That's he that can receive It, not he that just hears It preached and go on saying, 'Nonsense.' See?), He that receiveth My Word--He that heareth My Word and believeth (not make-believeth, but truly believe) on Him that sent Me (which was the Word) hath Everlasting Life and shall not come to the judgment; but hath (past tense) passed from death unto Life." That's it. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1123-284 So Judas had his name there on the Book of Life (That's exactly right.), but he was condemned, because what did he do? He sold out his birthrights. Esau was born in a family with the promise of God. The oldest son had the birthright. How many knows that? By a promise of God, Esau's name was on the book for the birthright (Is that right?), but he swapped it for a mess of wild gourds--or peas. Hungry to fill his belly, his meal ticket, he swapped his birthrights for a meal ticket and could find no place to repent. Those spies that went with--over to spy out the land, came and even eat the grapes that Joshua and Caleb brought back. And yet, what did they do? Sold out their birthrights.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1123-286 Jesus said--or Paul speaking with the inspiration of Christ in Hebrews the 6th chapter: "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the power of the world to come; if they shall fall away, to renew themselves again unto repentance, seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God, and count the Blood of the covenant, wherewith they were sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace..." It's impossible for that person to ever come back. Them, every one besides Joshua and Caleb, died and perished in that wilderness, yet they were believers, yet their names were on the books.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1124-288 And here, Paul speaking, if a man ever comes to a spot that he's been saved, and sanctified (The Blood sanctifies; Hebrews 13:12 and 13 says the Blood sanctifies.), and then comes right up to the gate of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and because of prestige or denomination refuses to walk in it, said, "That person is lost and can never be saved" (See?); for he's done despite even to the very works of grace that's called him up to that place and showed it to him, and then turn around, walk away from it. He counts the Blood of the covenant wherewith he was crucified--Christ was crucified as an unholy thing. Because the Blood that saved him, and justified him, and sanctified him brings him up to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And then walks away and leave it...
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1124-289 Now, watch that pattern. I'm taking a lot of time, but look. Judas Iscariot followed those same tracks. He was justified by believing on the Lord Jesus and then accept Him as his personal Saviour. He was sanctified and give power to cast out spirits; put his name on the Lamb's Book of Life. But when it come to Pentecost and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the fullness of the Word, he showed his colors. That's exactly what the Canaan spies did; that's exactly what Esau done. That's exactly what Satan done to Eve in the garden of Eden: "Surely God will not..." But she said, "God said..." He said, "Yeah, I know that says that; I know it says this, but surely..." See, the same thing all the way down through, and so is it today. QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M 1124-291 The church has fallen through justification, Martin Luther; through sanctification, Wesley. But it, when it comes to the time of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they show their colors; they want nothing to do with it. Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, Church of God, all those there who believe in sanctification, you can't lay a finger to it; it's truth. But when it comes a borderline, come right up to that spot to receive the Holy Ghost for the new birth, then what'd the devil do? Come around and try to twist it around. Oh, he's--he'll do everything that's in his known power to keep people out of there. They brought around on, and say you have to speak with tongues. or You have to have a sensation. You have to do this. You have to be borned into it. Don't let no one tell you that sanctification and the Holy Ghost is the same thing, 'cause it is not. Certainly is not. Listen at this Nazarene back here hollering, "It is not." See? He knows there's a difference in it, 'cause it certainly is--Brother Capps, our gallant brother. See? SEED.NOT.HEIR.WITH.SHUCK_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-4 THURSDAY_ 65-0218 65 There... See, here is no... There is no judgment to the royal, spiritual, predestinated Seed of Abraham, for they are predestinated to Eternal Life. They have accepted God's provided Sacrifice, and that Sacrifice which is Christ, the Word. "And there is therefore now no condemnation (St. John 5:24, if you want the Scripture)... There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)... walk not after the flesh, but the Spirit." And Romans 5:24, "He that heareth My Word (the word there is 'understandeth.' Any drunkard anything else can hear it and walk away.)... But he that heareth My Word (understands My Word) and believeth on Him that sent Me hath Everlasting Life and shall not come into the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." Yes, sir. He that this great mystery of the God made known, understand, how that God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world, how that He and the Father were One, how that the great mysteries of the fulfilling of God taking and bringing Hisself, manifested in the age of human beings, and in the strain of human beings, and in the company of human beings, to make His Word manifested in the day in the eastern rising of the sun and to do the same thing as the sun sets in the west, to make Hisself manifested in a Bride church, the Word made manifest. See? It will to... "He that understandeth (that is, to know), that's been revealed to him of Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life and will not come into the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life."
RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 24-4 The Dynamics, if It comes upon water it'll just splutter: "Days of miracles is past, putt-putt-putt; oh, I believe Divine... pomp-pomp-pomp; but they--they don't... pomp-pomp-pomp." See? but when it hits that one thousand octane, "Whrrrr" and away she goes. You see? Now. My. The Dynamics strike that... But if It strike a chicken, It won't do no good. But when It strikes a eagle he moves out (Amen.), the Dynamics with the mechanics. See what I mean? That is, if he is a true eagle now, he will understand. Let me straighten a little Scripture here for you. (I think we're off the phone, but we are still here.) St. John 5:24, Jesus said, "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on him that sent me, has Everlasting Life." RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 24-7 Now, look. I go down the street and just take that literally and what it is, without the spiritual understanding (not making it say nothing else, but just saying what it says). See? The right word there in the Greek, in the original, it says, "He that understandeth My Word..." Now, to prove that's right, I go down here, and here's a drunk coming along this street and with some other man's wife on his arms, and cussing and taking God's Name in vain, and everything else like that. "Say, did you hear what that preacher said? Did you..." "Yeah, I heard it." That don't mean He's got Eternal Life. See, see? "He that understandeth My Word," he that is an eagle. "Now, Brother Branham, I want more Scripture than that." All right. "My sheep hear My Voice. A stranger they won't follow."
RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 25-1 As in the marriage and divorce case the other day, when the Holy Spirit had told me that, I come said it just the way He told me. Some minister lady give me a right sharp, little bawling out. She said, "I guess you take the place of God." I said, "No, ma'am." Said, "Well, you told them their sins forgiven." Said, "Well," said, "only God has power to say..." Another Pharisee. See? And said...?... I said, "You see, that you might know that Jesus told Peter and the apostles, after he had the revelation of Who He was and told Him, 'Thou art Christ, the Son of God,' He said, 'Blessed art thou (See?), son of Jonas, flesh and blood never revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed It. Upon this Rock I'll build My church; the gates of hell can't prevail against It. And I give unto thee the keys. Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind it in heaven; what you loose on earth...'" That's that Divine revelation of the Word made flesh. If it was flesh in that day by the Son, the Groom, it's of flesh today by the Bride. RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 25-3 "Whosoever sins you remit, to them they are remitted; whosoever sins you retain, to them they are retained." Now, the Catholic church picked that up and taken it to their priests, but that's carnal. Watch. It was the spiritual, revealed Word that did it. That's the reason He told them to go baptize in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He knowed they knew Who He was.
RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M 25-4 Talking to a little preacher the other day, he said to me, said, "Now, Brother Branham, I've come out and joined--went over to a certain-certain church, a Pentecostal church where..." (The Pentecostal has now started taking the round wafer, you know. You've heard of that I guess, the kosher, the moon god, you know? And they all accepted it and taking it.) This man said the--the congregation went to him; he said, "What I bless is blest." (Now, ain't that what the priest says; he has power to turn it back to the body of Christ? See, just six of one and half a dozen of the other, just the same.) And he said, "I want to ask you something." (He was trying to dodge that issue of the baptism in Jesus' Name, because this was the man that said it was--it was the antichrist that did that.) He said, "Do you think it is all necessary that a man should be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "After he's been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost?" I said, "Yes, sir. He hasn't been baptized at all. He hasn't been baptized at all, no name; that's a title." And I said, "It isn't recognized." I said, "Why did--why did Peter..." He said, "Well, now, let me tell you something." He said, "Now, in Acts 10:49," he said, "While Peter yet spake these words the Holy Ghost fell upon them." But I said, "He turned right around and said, 'Can a man forbid water that these should not be baptized?'" SEED.SHALL.NOT.BE.HEIR_ LA.CA V-18 N-5 THURSDAY_ 65-0429B 53 Now, if you'll take Saint John 5:24, listen to this, "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life." Now, how would that be so much different from many of our theologies? Now, I could walk out here and say to a drunkard, "Do you believe?" "Sure." A man with another man's wife, "Do you believe?" "Sure." "Did you set in the meeting last night to hear the Word?" "Sure." "You believe It?" "Sure." He's just saying that. But the original interpretation of this Word, "he that understandeth My Word, and will believe on Him that sent Me... He that understands," that is to who It's made known to. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him. And all that My Father hath given Me, they will come. My sheep, My doves, hear My Voice. A stranger they will not follow." And what is the Voice of God? Is the Word of God. What's any man's voice but his word? It's the Word of God; they'll hear the Word of God.
