<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 And Christian friends, as a missionary myself, returning from foreign fields; and then as I come into Africa, I was met there by the Council of Churches of South Africa. And all the--from one coast to the other, a great council of churches they taken me out. They said "Brother Branham, we--we didn't want you to come over to teach us some new theology. We didn't want you to come over to teach the Word, for perhaps we more--know more about it over here than you American scholars do. For we find that in your missionaries that come over." Said, "But what we are trying to find, we want to see God's Word made manifest." That's it.
The archbishop of India, the Eastern Orthodox Presbyterian, one of the highest churches politically, religiously, politically recognized in the world... Even their baptism will be accepted in a Catholic church, of the Eastern Orthodox. And the archbishop, while I spoke recently at the Chicago Christian Businessmen's banquet, the archbishop was there, and he said, "When they ordained me an archbishop in India... Why," he said, "you all many times send missionaries over," said, "to teach us the Bible." And said, "We know more about It than you'd ever thought of knowing." And that's true. You ought to hear them once.
It's an oriental book. We're teaching It in--in a western way, and It's an oriental book written in the eastern way. And our parables and things that we teach out of there sometimes is as far as the east from the west of being right, the way we teach it. You have to see--have to go to the country where the Book was written to understand what they mean."

L-14 He said, "When they ordained me a archbishop over India," he said, "they--all the great presbyters, and the bishops, and the priests, and the cardinals, and all come around and laid hands upon me to receive the Holy Spirit; and all kind of ritualistic prayers they read out of books and everything," and said, "they laid hands on me." Said, "Nothing happened." He said, "I come over here to America, to a person that hardly had education enough to speak right, and laid hands on me, and I received the Holy Ghost." Said, "Now, what's the difference?" Said, "The thing of it is that in India, we don't want to know your tract that you're passing out, or your theology, or building this or that; we want to know Jesus." Amen.
Now, that's the cry of the--of the world today, is to know Christ. I believe Paul said to know Christ is life. And he knew Him in the power of His resurrection. Not to know Him by Word; not to know Him... That's... To know Him by Word, that's all right; but that's a long ways from be--being sufficient, to know Him by Word. We got to know Him by Person of His resurrection.

L-15 Now, if tonight that cry would be in Louisville... It's everywhere. "We would see Jesus." Now, let's find out Who this Jesus is. And I believe that if He is what He said He is, and His Word is correct, then He's just the same today that He was then. If He's changed one bit, than the Word is not correct, and our Bible is in error.
Now, recently... Oh, not recently, some years ago over in a certain city here on the river, there was a young child who--or, young man, twelve, fourteen years old, who go--went to church and was a very, very, very influential boy. And he--and he--he would love the Lord, and he asked his mother one day; he said, "Mother, if God is so great, could someone ever see God?"
She said, "Now, I don't know, sonny."
She said, "We go to church and that's all I know about it" Said, "Now, our pastor's going to visit us for lunch." Said, "Why don't you ask him?"
So that day he asked the pastor, and the pastor said, "Sonny, no." Said, "No man can see God at any time, never did, or never will see God at any time."
Well, he wasn't satisfied with that. He asked his Sunday school teacher. She said, "No, no one could see God."


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