<TITLE>07. Par 56-66</TITLE>L-56 Now, watch, "According..." Amen. Now, here it is. I hope it really... I'm going to let it soak in right, real good, 'cause it'll do good, it maybe go plumb into the bones.
According as he hath chosen us in him...
Who did? "I heard it and I come"? No, no, you never. "He hath chosen, hath (past tense), hath chosen us (the church) in Him." How long ago, Paul? Last week, or when you held the revival? No.
... before the foundation of the world,...
Now, you can ride on the cloud. See? He done what? "He chose us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world."

L-59 Wish we had a little time to go to Job 7:37, and see there where he said, "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world? Before I laid the foundation of the world... Declare to Me where they're fastened at. Or where was you when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy?" Telling to Job, "Buckle up yourself, like a man, I want to speak to you."

L-60 Now, Paul says, "He chose us in Him, the church, before the foundation of the world." Now, watch.
... that we should be holy...
Not our own holiness. "Well," you say, "you believe in holiness, Brother Branham?" Sure. Not mine, in His. My holiness is nothing; His is perfect.
Well, you say then, "Do you believe that you can drink or..." No, I never said that. Look, a grain of wheat can only produce wheat; it can't produce cockleburs. There's no desire in it; there's no life in it to produce cockleburs with. And if we're in Christ Jesus...

L-63 Don't be deceived, you had better search this close now. See, if you keep on saying, "Well, I--I... don't condemn me to do this, and it don't condemn me to do that." Things of the world? Now, I--I'm going to hurt you just a little bit, pull the feathers back the other way. But it's this one sure evidence, you've never been to Christ, you've never been borned again. "He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in him."
Now, if you just quit doing it because you know you ought to do it, and quit doing this, that's the sign that you haven't got nowhere yet. When that thing becomes dead in you, and the nature of it's gone away, there's another Person in there and It can only produce... The Holy Spirit that was in Christ in you produces the Christ-like Life. Nothing you do; what He did. He chose that before the foundation of the world.

L-66 Someone said, "Well, I know I got saved, because I quit smoking."
That wasn't why I got saved; that wasn't why you got saved. You got saved because God chose you before the foundation of the world to be saved. That's the Scripture teaching. Amen. Now, you see, we begin to find out it's not us; it's Him (See?); He chose us.
Abraham couldn't say, "Well, bless God, I come down from the tower of Babylon, hallelujah. That's why I got saved." He'd have saved the whole bunch then, if that's the reason they done it. See, He didn't do that.


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