<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-142-185 Look. Who was it that permitted the evil to come down and Satan to go out and destroy the most perfect servant of God until Jesus Christ, his children and everything he had--Job? And God sent a wicked spirit out there and destroyed all of Job's children and everything just to test His servant. Is that right? Sure.
Oh, I could stand here for an hour and just showing you them, my brother, sister. That's right, ever who you may be. Don't you get this Spirit of God mixed up. Wars are God's judgments upon the nations. Destructions are sent of God. The Bible said so. And God is a God of love, but God is a God of wrath also. And you're not going to stand before a loving... That's been the thing that hurt the church today.

L-142-187 "Some loving Father, of course He wouldn't mind me doing this." If you want to do it, you might as well go on and do it, because the love of God's not in you to begin with.
We're fixing to take Communion just in a moment, and I want this to really sink in to you. The thing of it is, what is in your heart will produce--make your life. What kind of a seed you put in the ground will produce after its kind. How can you take a--a popcorn plant and make a--a gypsum weed out of it? You couldn't do it no more than you can take a grain of corn and make a cocklebur. You couldn't make them, because they're two different natures, two different lives altogether. The--you--you might take a gypsum weed seed and an onion seed, and they look so perfect alike till the very best of men couldn't tell them apart. That's right. The only thing you have to do is plant them. They both look alike naturally, but plant them. They both will produce; and one will be a gypsum weed and the other one will be an onion. That's exactly right.
Say, "Why--what makes this seed--it looks just exactly like this--produce a different kind of a life?" It's because that kind of life is in it.

L-143-190 And a man or woman that professes to be a Christian and don't live that kind of life, by the grace of God, is a gypsum weed. By their fruits ye shall know them. If that thing's in your heart, bears record of what you are somewhere else. If it's evil, it bears record that you're down here. When you die, you'll just have to go to where you are already.
If you're good and you're--you're good because God has made you good, and you're borned again, you're bound to go that way, because that Life will have to bear record with this place. If it bears record of here, there's where you go. If it bears record up there, there's where you go. See?

L-143-191 What you are here... Get this in your mind now. I'm going to close. But what you are here is a sign that you are something else somewhere. You've always wanted to be in perfection, you Christians. There is a perfection, and that perfection is not in this life. But every man and woman here that is a Christian, every person that is a Christian here now is already glorified in the Presence of Jesus Christ. And you've got another body. You won't have some other time; you have right now. Right now there's another body waiting for you if this one should perish. Could you think of that. Study that just a minute.
Do you know every one of us may be in eternity before sun rises tomorrow morning? Now, if you're not a Christian, my friend, there's only one thing left for you. You've got to go that way. If you're on that road, you have to go that road. If you're a grain of corn, you'll produce corn. If you're a cocklebur, you produce cocklebur life. Now, if you've been belonging to a church somewhere that doesn't know and doesn't teach, and just lets you come to church and be a member of the church... You say, "Well, Brother Branham, my church teaches that we must accept Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour. If we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ we are saved." If your life doesn't compare with that, you haven't made it yet.


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