<TITLE>06. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Now, how marvelous. Earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, all back in the age... Now, the very faith that they had at the beginning is supposed to be today yet.
A very fine scholar I was having dinner with, here some time ago, E. Stanley Jones, said, "Brother Branham," said, "I see most of your meeting is made up of Pentecostal people."
Said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Why so?"
I said, "They're the ones that believe."
And he said, "Well," he said, "Brother Branham, I think that Pentecost was a scaffold." Said, "That God was going to put up a building and He put... made Pentecost the scaffold."
"Well," I said, "that's right. I'll agree with you."
And he said, "Well, see, after the scaffold work's done, we don't need the scaffold any more."
I said, "But the scaffold work isn't done. When the building's completed, God will take it up. So we're still working on the building." Amen.

L-12 Yes, sir. We still need every step ladder, every stepping stone. We need everything. Just exactly... The building is still in making and when it's completed, this Gospel is preached to every kindred, tongue, and nation, then Jesus will return. That's right.
Now, we've had plenty of passing out tracts and theology around the world. But the Gospel is not the Bible altogether. The--the Bible... Paul said, "The Gospel came to us not in Word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost."
Then when Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," then He meant go into all the world and demonstrate the power of God to every creature.

L-13 And in order to preach the Gospel, before you can make it a Gospel preach, then you've got to have the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit to prove the Gospel. "The letter killeth, the Word... the letter killeth, the Spirit maketh alive."
So it's not just a ritualistic affair, but it's absolutely a real, living reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, living among men. And that's the faith that I'm trying my best to contend for today; that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and His power is unlimited.

L-14 If you can limit God, you can limit Christ. And if you limit the Church today in its possibilities, you're limiting God. "But all things whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it." He said that. I believe it and I know it's the truth.
Now, we think of how marvelous, how God has did these things for us and to see in this day how it's been predicted by the prophets through the Scriptures...

L-15 And someone asked me, it was the same man, why did I associate myself with Pentecostal people? Now, here's the reason. Now, I know there's many things that I think they ought to be straightened out on in some doctrine. That's my own opinion, they might think I ought to be too. See?
Now, but here's one thing, that I have found the people with a living faith, with... They have absolutely caught a hold of something, God out there that gives them a new birth, that puts God into the person, that makes him believe in the supernatural.
Now, if you're not borned again, you do not believe in the supernatural. And if you do not believe in the supernatural, you haven't been borned again. Because when you're borned again, you become a son of God. And He will... Being a son of God, you're a nature of God.
And then you take on the things, and you want to see the moving of God, and see God move, because you're His son, and you're made in His image, and you're borned of His Spirit. You're a part of Him. And then you've got faith for anything. Amen.


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