<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-108-19 And now, in these questions, that's the way we want them to be. Now, it's always thought... Now, in here, you realize in this little handful of people tonight, there's probably all kinds of different ideas; and we think they're all good, every one of them. Your idea is good, and it's a... But now, what we do, we have to have somebody... Just like geese, ducks, anything, everything has--bees--everything has a leader. If the queen bee dies, you know what happens. The leader duck dies, they have to get them another one. The--they just have to have a leader.
And man's got to have a leader; and the Leader is the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit sets in the church, first apostles, after that, prophets, and so forth.

L-109-21 Someone said not long ago, said, "Why, Brother Branham, we don't need anybody to teach us. When the Holy Ghost comes, we don't need anybody to teach." Said, "The Bible says you do not--not need teaching."
I said, "Then why did the same Holy Spirit set in the church teachers?" See, see? He set the church in order. He was. We got to have teachers. That's right.
But you oughtn't to have anyone... Don't have to teach you saying, "Thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not sware, and take..." You already know that. Your very conscience of the Holy Spirit tells you it's wrong to do that.
But now, as far as Scriptural teaching, it takes a Holy Ghost anointed. That's right. And God has set the church in order by apostles and prophets, and gifts of healing, and miracles, and so forth. He set the church in order and put the teachers and so forth in there to guide and direct His church. And this morning, we--as we said, Jesus over the earth as His Body... And just as His body moves, it's just like a shadow reflecting to the earth. It'll move with it.

L-109-24 Now, many people... The Adventist people believe that when a man dies that he goes right into the grave and stays there, soul, body, and everything else, until the resurrection. And their... They call that soul sleeping. Well, that's all right. It's all right as long as they believe Jesus Christ and is borned again, that won't hurt them. But now, according to the Scriptures, that when the person dies, if he's a Christian, if he's borned again, filled with the Holy Spirit, he'll never have to stand in the judgments of God. See? He goes straight to the Presence of God. And he'll never have to be in judgment, because he's already... See?
I don't have to stand for what Christ did for me. Now, I was a sinner, but Christ's judgment... Here's--here's the full thing in a few words: God said, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." That settled it.

L-109-26 Now, God's got to keep His Word. He can't do nothing else but keep His Word, because He's God. Well then, He can't. Then, He... You're separated from God. The... And then, you're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. So when you're borned, you're a sinner by nature. So there's nothing in the world you can do about it. There's nothing I could do to save myself or you to save yourself. It's what Christ did for us in God--or what God did for us in Christ. See? It isn't, well, whether I think this or I do this, it's whether He did that.
Well now, we're in Him. Then He stood God's judgment; He took the judgment. And Him, being innocent from sin, knowing no sin, yet was made sin for us... So as long as you're in Christ, you are free from judgment. "When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you." See, see? That's it. The Blood, that frees you...


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