<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Shall we bow our heads. Now, Lord, as children playing in the market place, as we stand and know that You want us to be happy and rejoice, You said that Your joys might be full... But now, Father, we have read the Word of God, and now we pray that You will settle us down.
And may the Holy Spirit catch a hold of every heart. Grant it, Lord, and may every sinner today be saved. May ever backslider be brought back to the Kingdom of God, and may every sick person in the building go out of here well. Grant it, Father, and may the Holy Spirit now come and take the things that are God's and deliver them to every heart as each heart has need, for we ask it in Jesus' Name and for His glory. Amen.

L-27 This chapter that we're now reading from. We'll get just a little background. I believe I can see the clock there, so I won't take too much time. If I can just have your undivided attention now... Don't think about the meeting tonight or what's going to take place tomorrow. Let's think about the Lord Jesus being here right now, and each one of them saying, "Now, I'm a sinner, if you are, but if there's--if, Lord, have You got something for me, speak to my heart."
And every person without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, saying, "Lord, I haven't got the Holy Spirit and I know anything short of that, well, I'm afraid of it. So I--I want to be borned again for You said, "except a man be borned again, he will not enter the Kingdom.' So I want to be borned again.

L-28 Now, I don't mean to say you're not a Christian till you get the Holy Ghost, get that. I mean that you're--the Holy Ghost is the seal of your faith. You see? God--Abraham believed God by faith, and then He give him the seal of a promise. You see? And you believe God by faith and you're justified by faith, but you're sealed into the body of Christ by the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
You hear these bishops and archbishops and everything else come and testifying about it. If you've never received it, just come and try it. It's fine. It's a... It's I don't know how... Someone said to me one time after I'd come out of my spell of sickness, he said, "Brother Branham, did you keep your religion during the time of your sick spell?"
I said, "No, sir. I never. It kept me during the time of the sick spell." So that's... Yeah, the Holy Ghost keeps me, not me keeping It. That isn't the question. It keeps me. I just received It, and It takes care of me. That's the way it is with every believer.

L-29 Now, this was right in the beginning, our text this afternoon, to the very bloom of Jesus' ministry. He came out. He was beginning to heal the sick, and great throngs begin to come to Him.
Now, we find out that was the first year of His ministry. The second year of the ministry they begin to find fault against Him, and the third year, in the middle of the next year, they crucified Him.
That's just the way it goes. There's a revival comes on. Oh, the great tinsels on. The revival then settles down. Then the first thing you know, just what's really genuine stays. The rest of them goes away. That ends it.


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