<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 For instance, like this: When Jesus died at Calvary, how many--what elements came from His body? Water, blood, Spirit. Is that right? Now, any minister, any believer knows that that's what constitutes the new birth. Is that right? That constitutes the new birth, Saint John 7:5: "For there are three that bear record... of water, blood, and Spirit." When they pierced His side, water and blood came out. He said, "Into Thy hands I commend my Spirit." Those elements went from His body, and it takes those same elements to bring you to His body. That constitutes the new birth.
Now, what constitutes a natural birth? It's a mixed audience, but listen. The first thing is water, blood, spirit. See? Everything in the--everything in the natural and spiritual all type together. Watch. Get acquainted with God and you'll see His great move in nature. You see Him in the sunsets, in the flowers, in everywhere. You can see Him all around you because He is all around you. That gives you perfect confidence that you're in love with Him, and you're--He's in love with you. He loved you, predestinated you, foreordained you before the world begin, has brought you here, saved you, cleansed you up, and filled you with His Spirit. Well, how could you have doubt? ...?... it. See? That gives you a perfect setting of faith. When you know those things, that gives you courage, and my, you know where you're standing.

L-19 Now, back to the--our subject. This woman, they taken... And she was just a housewife, common woman, Miss Pepper. You get the article. The "Reader's Digest" will be glad to send you one. I just have the one left or I'd say I could give it to you. Mr. Baxter has one, one of the managers.
And they wrote about ten pages in there of her. Way back in--over fifty years ago, she begin to fall in trances, and she would talk to the dead. Now, that's spiritualism, which is of the devil. Now.
And then they taken her to England. And she stumped the best they had in England. They taken her to Italy, everywhere; and she stumped everything they've ever put before her; 'cause she spoke to the dead all time.
They'd go down in Italy and get a man who could speak English and bring him to England and dress him up like an Englishman and propose to be an Englishman, and call one of his dead friends, and he'd tell him who--tell him that, "Well, remember the big times we had," and what all they went and done and everything like that. So the "Reader's Digest" said that it was proved here not long ago that some statesman thought he kissed the hand of his ghostly mother in a seance meeting, but the next morning was proved in police courts that he kissed a piece of cheesecloth: just a trick.

L-20 But there is a real medium; she's of the devil. And there's a real Spirit of God of Jesus Christ. Now, the Bible, Jesus said that in the last days, it'd be so close that it would deceive the very elect if possible. And as soon as Miss Pepper's article run, that greatest, widest published magazine in the world... And isn't it strange that those two articles run side by side, just a little bit apart?
Now, talk about preachers over the country who didn't know their Bible, they wrote to me by the hundreds: "All right, Brother Branham, we exactly see where you stand now. There you are. There's that spiritualist, she's still living, over a hundred years old in New York, now." says the "Reader's Digest." "Perfectly deaf" and setting back in there. But the scientific world takes care of her, because they've used her for a guinea pig. And then they had to say there at the bottom, "We have to say that when the people cease to exist here, they are existing somewhere else, because she calls them up. And she's been everywhere. And they've tried her for everything. She calls the spirits of the dead. Why, you wouldn't have to do that. The Bible said so. But it's of the devil.


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