<TITLE>12. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Now, the... While we're praying tonight, and the people here, some of them probably are emergency cases, maybe very sick that cannot come back maybe for tomorrow night, or some other night... But if you'll bind yourselves together, and start a prayer meeting at home... Now, all you Methodists, Baptist, Lutheran, whatever you are, let's all put ourselves together. And now we represent no denomination; we represent Jesus Christ (See?), not any denomination.
Frankly, right now, I do not belong to any denomination of church at all. I--I don't belong to anything. I was ordained in the Baptist church. And by their desire, I--I'm not a Baptist no more. I...

L-46 Someone said not long ago... I was at Little Rock, Arkansas. And a man had been badly crippled, almost lifetime. He's walking on crutches. And he got a prayer card, and was called, and got into the number on the platform and was healed. And when he went out, he met me in a few days on the street. And he walked up-and-down the streets with his crutches in his hands, screaming, and going on. And he said, "Brother Branham." He said, "You know," said, "when..." He was a Nazarene, and he said, "You know, when--when you first started preaching," said, "I thought sure you was a Nazarene." He said, "And then I seen so many Pentecostal people along," said, "somebody told me you went Pentecost." And said, "Now," said, "I heard you say that--that you was a Baptist. So, I--I don't understand this."
I said, "That's easy." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist." So that's the way we are. We just represent the Lord Jesus Christ in His mercy. That's right. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body and become one people." And that...

L-47 Jesus is not going to ask me if I was Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, or Pentecost; He's going to judge me to what I was in my heart. That's right. And that's what He will judge us all by.
So now, don't think it's just one church. We represent all the churches. And many of the people that come into the line are Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, they, all kinds, every kind of... And I've never seen one yet that come, but what was healed when they come upon the basis of faith. That's right. For by faith are ye healed, not how good you are.
I've seen people come that were renowned Christians, and stand there and be told the reason that they couldn't be healed. And see streetwalkers, prostitutes, people of ill-fame come off the streets and be healed, of cripples, and blindness, and everything, sinners.
Now, you don't have to be a Christian to be healed. But you have to be a Christian to stay healed. For the Bible said, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come upon you." Is that right?

L-48 What is sin? What is sin? Not drinking, not smoking, not gambling, not rejecting church. Sin is unbelief. Is that right? He that believeth not is condemned already. See? You're not... You do not... You're not destroyed or separated from God because you're a sinner. You're separated to God--from God because you refuse to walk with Him, to walk in His provided way.
You've got death and life before you. Just like Adam and Eve, every man's a free moral agent. And the Tree of Life and tree of death is before us all. You can take either one you wish to. It depends on what tree you eat off of is what you are. That's right. And God is... God created you a free moral agent to do whatever you want to do about it. He can't make you love Him, and He don't force you to love Him.


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