<TITLE>11. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 Someone said not long ago... Now, God bless you, to my dear Catholic friends here. See? Said, "Brother Branham, if that gift would been given, the Pope of Rome would've knowed about it." He knowed just about as much as Caiaphas knowed that that was the Christ that was born.
God doesn't deal in great bignig rings like that. He's come to the poor and humble, and takes that which is not, to bring to pass that... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] same foolishness of preaching to condemn the mighty and wise. God does that. He always takes the very lowest to bring it up.
If them apostles could've said, "We're educated; we're smart; we got all kinds of degrees." They'd have had something to glory in, but they were ignorant and unlearned men. And God taken that which was not, and made that which is. Hallelujah. Oh, I love that. When I think... Then everybody's got a chance.

L-35 You say, "Now, wait a minute preacher. Paul was an educated man." That's exactly right, and said he had to forget everything he knowed to learn Christ, too and die daily over it. Yes, sir.
Now, that is truth. And that's where our world is--our churches are failing today. We're trying to get into our pulpit... You people who are electing your pastors, you're trying to get the very smartest, newest, freshest thing out of the seminary, that you can find; and sometimes that's the worst thing you could have. Right. What--what we need today is a man with an experience of God who will lay the axe to the root of the tree and let the chips fall where away and preach the unadulterated Gospel if the church turns him out.

L-36 A fellow said to me not long ago said, "Preacher, if I preach that," he said, "I'd be preaching to four walls."
I said, "I'd rather be preaching to concrete blocks the truth of God (That's right.), and have favor with God, if I had to eat soda crackers, and drink branch water, and be pre--preaching the truth, than to have fried chicken three times a day, and have my collar turned around, and standing for something that I knowed was a lie." Amen. Amen. That's free. That's right. God's Spirit...
What we need today is a good old fashion Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the church again as a Light of God.

L-37 This priest standing there making his sacrifices, or while they was offering pray, waiting, and oh, a righteous man, godly man... And over to his right side appeared this great Gabriel, the Archangel.
God always sends minor Angels, but Gabriel announced the first coming of Christ, and Gabriel will announce the second coming of Christ. Right. The Archangel of God will announce the second coming of Christ.
Now, I want you to notice, beautifully here. And the Angel told him when he went home, he would be with his wife, and she'd bear a child. Now notice, that scholarly man, who had plenty of examples to look to, he said, "How can these things be? My wife is old," maybe ten, fifteen years passed the menopause.
But look where Sarah was. She was forty years a passed the menopause. Look at Hannah. He had plenty of examples, that he ought to have been able to have read in the Scripture and know that that was the truth. But many times He read it, but he didn't apply it as the same God then, being the same God then. And that's what's the matter today, we think the days of miracles are passed. We're failing to see that the same God that was, is now, and always will be.


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