<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 And if someone comes by and says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and then reads out of the Bible to you what His life was and what He did... He didn't claim to be a great person; He was a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief; wasn't a raw, blusterous sort of a man. He was a quiet Man, but yet, He had kindness, but yet, when it was time to speak, He could speak. He beat the thieves out of their--money changers out of the temple and so forth, and said, "It's written, My house--Father's house is made a house of prayer, and you've made it a den of thieves." He could speak when it was necessary in that manner.
But then, He went about and He didn't claim to heal people. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me." And He passed by some crippled people, great multitudes of them, and He didn't heal any and healed a man on a pallet. And the Jews questioned Him about the man packing his bed and so forth. He said, "Why, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
The people in the audience, in His audience, would begin to think about different things. He'd speak and He would know what they was thinking about. Say, "Why reason ye in your heart?" Why do this? and so forth. He knew their thoughts.

L-12 Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's--has risen from the dead; He's living among men. Now, here's what He said, "A little while and the world (Not the word 'cosmos,' it's the world order, the world, the unbeliever, in other words.) will see Me no more. Yet, you'll see Me (ye, the church , the believer), for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age." That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then what He was then, He is now, and will be forever. I don't see any loop. Before God, I can't see any loop for people to make an excuse of unbelief 'less it's just purely unadulterated sin; that's unbelief.

L-13 I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of "sin." I said, "Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery's not a sin."
A lady raised up and said, "Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?"
I said, "That's the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That isn't sin; that's what sin produces." I said, "Because that you live good, that's not because you're a Christian. That's the attributes of Christian life." See? You are a sinner because you believe not. And Jesus said to the people, after He'd performed His work, He said, "Go ye, and..." What no more? Sin no more. What would sin be then? "Disbelieve no more or worse things than this will come upon you."
So if God in His mercy, will help and will show by the Gospel and by signs and wonders that His Presence is here, and you go and disbelieve it? Well, that's between you and God. You might even be worse off than the sick people that's on the platform pretty soon. That has been in thousands of cases.


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