<TITLE>09. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 Now, here's the tree of death. I have my idea of what it was; you can have yours. But anyhow, that whenever they'd taken this tree, they were going to die. But if they ever taken this Tree, they were going to live.
So, when they'd taken the tree of death, that separated them from God, and He put an Angel around that Tree to keep them from taking It. Because the very time that they'd taken of that Tree, they would live forever, even knowing good from evil. Is that right? All right.
Then notice. That tree was the woman, and when they... when Adam partaken of this, it separated him... The woman still brings the--the life in the world; it has to die again. But the Tree of Life that was standing in there, was Jesus Christ. When He come down there at the Jewish feast that day, and they said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness."...
And He said, "And they're every one dead. But I am the Bread of Life that come from heaven. If a man eat thereof, he shall never die." He was that Tree that was in the garden of Eden.

L-27 And just as sure as we're borned of a woman, we're full of sorrow, and few days, and die. But every man that's borned by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has Everlasting Life and will be raised up again in the last day.
But it mustn't be an impersonation; it must be a genuine Holy Ghost, regenerated birth, that makes a new creature out of him. It can't be just a make belief, or some theology. It must absolutely be a supernatural birth.
Just as there was pains and groaning in the first birth of natural, there'll have to be the same thing in the second, making a man a new creature in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah.
Oh, don't get excited. I don't... I haven't hurt no one yet.

L-28 Look. But here, when I see Cain, Abel... they wanted and seen... mortal they were... how mortal. They've got to get a way. They've got to find favor before God. And they go out and get some... different ones... get their fruits of the field, and so forth to go make a sacrifice, to find... to try to appease the wrath of God, the judgments of God that's been passed upon them. Cain toiled hard, no doubt, raised a nice crop of fruit.
Now, watch. Cain was just as religious, just as much of a gentleman, in every respect that Abel was. Now, not by good works we are saved, but by His mercy.

L-29 Then they both come up to worship before God. I believe it was east of the gate. And I believe they come right up before His Presence, there where that flaming sword was running around the east side of the gate, like that, guarding the Tree of Life.
Look. Here it is. I hope you get it. Just as sure as man is borned of a woman, he has to die. It's just that sure, if he's borned of Christ, he's got to live. He's got to live. He can't help it. He's got Eternal Life. Christ said he had.

L-30 Now, in that day God guarded the Tree to keep them from getting it. And now, that sword's turned right back the other way now, running them right into the Tree, so that they will receive the Life, driving people, herding them up to the Tree of Life. How marvelous.
There I notice, look at this. Then when Cain come up, and he built an altar unto the Lord; both of them did. Now, if a altar is all that God requires, or a church membership, Cain was just as just as Abel was. Cain built an altar, just with as good of intention as what Abel did.
Well, you say, "Brother Branham, as long my intentions is good..." No, sir. That won't do it.
"Well, I joined church with all good intentions." That still doesn't do it. Cain did too.


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