<TITLE>03. Par 8-12</TITLE>L-8 When the disciples went forth, the Bible said they went forth preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs following.
I was reading a tract today, was probably passed out in this church, concerning the broken cisterns. It was a very outstanding tract. I liked it very much. It is true that we have substituted for the Holy Spirit, human theology. And it does not work. It will not.
The Holy Spirit is the--the government of the Church. To the world, it's foolish; but to those who believe, it's salvation.

L-9 I am happy tonight to be numbered with that Church. Although maybe tomorrow, or tomorrow afternoon, I'm to preach here in the tabernacle, if the Lord willing... I was thinking on preaching on a subject that I did here not long ago: Why Am I a Holy-roller?"
I will tell you why. Why did I number myself out of the Baptist church over with what's called holy-rollers? Because it's the Scripture. And that's why... numbered with them. I'm so happy that God give me that great privilege of doing that.
Not discrediting Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian or any other church. The believers are borned again, no matter what church they go to. If they're born again they're Christians, no matter what church they are. But I mean, for churches who stands for the phenomenal, the great powers of God.

L-10 You see, if a man does not have the Holy Spirit, he cannot believe those things. Because when a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he becomes a son of God. And his nature is likened unto God. That's the reason Jesus said, "Did not it say in your laws, ye are gods?" Because you're an attributes of God.
And then God Himself... All things are possible. God made the very world that we're sitting on tonight. This world, this world that we now are living on the crust of it, is nothing in the world but one Word of God made manifest. God spoke the world into existence. How many believes that?
This is the Word of God made manifest. This pulpit, this wood, just everything in here, everything that the eye sees was made manifest because God spoke it into existence.

L-11 Then if a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he doesn't listen to reasons at all. God cannot be reasoned. God is believed. We don't know God by theology. We don't know God by education. We don't know God by reasons. We know God by faith. It's beyond reason. You cannot reason it. That's what makes it so real to us believers. We look at the unseen. The things that we do not see, we look--we look at that.
I might have time for a testimony, if it wouldn't bother you too much. Many times at my home... I've got about ten minutes yet by the clock before we start the prayer line. Saturday night...

L-12 Many times at home, someone... A young fellow today in a restaurant, said, "I guess, Brother Branham, that you're pestered with people." I wouldn't think it was pestering. I told our young brother, who is a very fine brother, hungering and thirsting for God; I said, "No, the dear people that come, ninety-nine percent of them are really sincere and honest, trying to get well, or find peace of mind.
So many times it wears me out. And I have to leave for a little while. I love people. I can't stay in the room and sleep, when sick babies on the porch, and some father with his wife, and her dying with a cancer, and wanting a glass of water, and me trying to get a hour's sleep. Night after night, sometimes I never remove my clothes. Then when I get real--so bad I can't stand it, I have to go away somewhere else.


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