<TITLE>02. Par 11-19</TITLE>L-11 There would happen to be a stranger in our midst; that's our pastor here, Brother Neville. He's developed a little hoarseness in his throat, and that's the reason we haven't heard much of him the last couple nights. He's kinda asked to be silent as much as possible, for that cause, until his throat has a chance to--to--he's has the chance to recuperate again.

L-12 Now, we have been studying the Book of Exodus. The Exodus is the calling out, of the children of God. They were the people of God as long as they were in Egypt. But when they had their exodus, they become the church of God, for the church, word "church," means "called out." And we believe that we're near a exodus tonight. You believe that? We're near another exodus, a calling out, separating, making ready.

L-13 Now, I believe I'm, I like, and have been accused of being, and which I am, a typologist; because I believe that all of the old things were a shadow of the things to come. The Scripture teaches that. And if we can have some vision and look what the Old Testament was, we'll see what the Old Testament is, or what the New Testament is, rather. See, the type, they were for shadows and for examples, that we might know what to do. See how they fell and how they rose, and what they did as they served God, and it served as shadow for us.

L-14 Now, the first night, Wednesday night, we picked up the church, to find out, basically, what the church was. And now, in the healing campaign... And this is the first time I've had a revival in seven years, of this type. Seven years this coming week I left the Tabernacle and went out into the evangelistic campaigns of healing services.
And I've committed it to managers who's done the preaching, mostly, and I would only speak on the subject of Divine healing, because we were a mixed audience of--of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Catholics, orthodox, Jew, everything. And sometimes if you'd tramp on people's ecclesiastical teaching, it'll make the ministers keep the people away from the church, some of them that really needed to come to be prayed for. So I just closed in on everything but the great evangelical, fundamental teaching of the Bible, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ; you know what the fundamental evangelical teaching is.

L-16 But now in the Tabernacle here, at my little church that the Lord gave me twenty years ago, I--I feel free that I can teach what my convictions is. And then, and we don't have any membership here, we just have fellowship one with... You're a member here while you're here tonight, you're a member. We don't have any--any members, just fellowship.

L-17 And we now, in here, you might find things that you say, "Brother Branham, I don't agree with That."
Well, now, if you don't, you do, you use the same method I am when I'm eating a great big cherry pie and find a seed. I don't quit eating cherry pie; I just don't eat the seed. I just throw the seed out and keep on eating cherry pie. Or when you're eating chicken, it's got to have a bone in its leg, you know. So don't throw the chicken away 'cause you hit the bone, just throw the bone away. And what you think has got the bone or the... Well, you just throw it away now, and you take what you think is right.

L-19 Now, we find that God's church is not the will of the people. It's election. Election is in God. God called Abraham, the founder of the faith, beginning. God was the Founder, of course. But Abraham, in the beginning was called out of Chaldea, city of Ur, out of the plains of Shinar, not with any merit of his own. God saved him unconditional, and gave him the promise of all his seed, unconditional.


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