<TITLE>07. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Let's stop here in the sermon just a minute. Let's go back four thousand years from then. I hear a hollering mob in Jerusalem, screaming, the people were going on. We're setting up now looking down through a window. I hear something dragging on the street. It's an old rugged cross dragging out the bloody footprints of the bearer.
Who is that going there? "Why, that Nazarene down here, that fanatic, divine healer."
What's all them little red spots on His back? Look at them; all over His seamless robe, there's little red spots.
And as we watch Him going up towards the capital punishment grounds, they begin to get bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. Directly they all run into one, one big solid mass of blood.
Then I hear something. [Brother Branham claps--Ed.] What is it? God's prepared Lamb from the foundation of the world, going yonder to die for sinners like you and me, God making ready a preparation that would cleanse the heart of sinful men and redeem him back to Himself, God preparing, getting ready. No other way could be done. How ridiculous His ways seem.

L-28 Somebody say, "Well, why don't you just... Why didn't God just say a certain thing? Why didn't He just put the leaves around..."
See, man can never understand God. You just got to believe what God says.
How could I explain to my little girl, if she wanted my straight razor to--to rake around over her face. How could I... could I make her understand what it would do to her? She's just two years old. She's got to believe me; that's all. I just say, "You can't have it."
What if my little girl was three years old, or two years old, had my shotgun with the hammers back and two shells in it; she wanted to play with it; screaming and holding on to it.
Don't make any difference how much she wants it, I can't let her have it. I know better, she doesn't. I can't make her understand it. She's just got to believe me. Is that right?
And how can God make that woman laying there, and this one here, and different ones, perfectly well when the doctors had said they can't get well. I can't understand it. I just believe it. God said so. That settles it.

L-29 How do you take a sinner like me and like you and make a Christian out of us? I can't understand it. That's the greatest miracle that God ever performed, is when He took a--a--a sinner and made a Christian out of us. And if you can't--if you can't...
Looky here; you believe that God can save anybody from sin, because you've been taught that. Well, that's a far more of a miracle; that man that was dead in trespasses and sin, that man is dead and he had to believe or remain dead. And then after you are borned again, you become a Son of God, how much more ought you to believe for a lesser miracle, for Divine healing, if a live man ought to believe more than a dead man. See what I mean? You've got to believe it. Can't explain it, believe it. That's all you have to do.

L-30 Watch. When God... then making a preparation.
The people say, "Well now, Brother Branham, when I believe, that settles it."
No, it doesn't. There has to be a transaction of God there in a confirmation of your faith, giving you a new birth.
How many is... tell the people here... I'm just so sick and tired of seeing people thumbing their way to heaven. They just say, "You believe that?"
"Uh-huh. You believe that."
"You believe that?"
That's a hitchhikers. Brother, God ain't got such things as that. A man's got to be borned of the Spirit of God a regenerated and made a new creature, or he's lost. That's all. That's exactly right. We got to believe it. We got to accept it.
You say, "Well, if I believe, that settles it."
No, it doesn't.


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