<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Certain... A little old boy down in Kentucky, close to the country where I came from...
Someone said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, what part of Kentucky you from?" Oh, my. It's a way down in Kentucky where they... Way down. Don't even have a roads in there, just creek bottoms.
And so they had a little old rural school. Little old boy about the second grade... He got up there one day, and said, "Teacher, the Lord called me to preach."
Why, she laughed at him, hair hanging down his face.
Said, "The Lord called me to preach." I guess the boy's fifteen, sixteen years old. And said...
Why, the teacher said, "The very idea. Forget about it."
Well, he went to the principal of the school. And oh, they couldn't let him preach.
But a few months after that, some great minister came through with some great D.D. to his name. So they permitted him to have the school. So he preached a two week's meeting, never had one conversion.

L-20 So the boy's father thought the boy really was called to preach. So he went to the principal, said, "Well, if you let him have it, why don't you let my boy have a try?"
So they went down there, and he let him have it. They all... Everybody come out to hear this boy that night. He got up there, and he couldn't read the Bible. So they had to get somebody to read the Bible for him. And he got to preaching.
So when he got to preaching, that little old self-styled teacher, along with about fifty others, found theirself at the altar, weeping their way through to Christ. See? That's right. And there was a real revival broke out in that part of the country. And literally hundreds came to Christ.
Why? It doesn't take the--the great education. It takes a full surrendered heart to Jesus Christ. No matter how illiterate you are... "Though a fool will not error in the way..." Is that right?

L-21 So listen closely now as we read the Word.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Seest thou how faith... with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and he was called the Friend of God.
You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Likewise also was... Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and... sent them out another way?
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

L-22 Now, the first thing... It looks like Paul was speaking in Romans the 4th chapter, justifying Abraham by faith; and James is justifying him by works. But it does not contradict. Paul was speaking of what God saw in Abraham, and James was speaking what man saw in Abraham.
Paul was speaking of what God saw in Abraham, in Genesis 6, when He told him that he was going to have this child by Sarah. And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. He believed the promise. That's what God saw.
And then James speaking, was speaking of what man saw in Genesis 22 where Abraham offered up Isaac.
See, what faith is... What faith you have, that's what God sees. But what your works is, that's what your neighbors see. See? Show me your works by your faith--without your faith, and I'll show you my works by my faith. See?
Notice, I believe that this audience here has faith. I believe that. But I believe you're afraid to turn it loose on works. For I--I believe that if you would just let your faith loose... See?


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