<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Notice, then when... Not only that, but he come up and worshipped. Here some time ago, I was speaking to a great fundamental brother. He said, "What more can a man do but believe?"
I said, "That's all he can do, but God can do more."
He said, "Abraham believed God, Brother Branham, and it was imputed to him for righteousness."
I said, "That's right. But He give him the seal of circumcision as the confirmation of his faith." And I said, "If you haven't received the Holy Ghost since you believed, God's never confirmed that He's accepted your faith. For the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the confirmation that God has accepted your faith." Amen.

L-29 Now, what is the--what is the circumcision today? Is the Holy Spirit. God circumcises our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Where was done by the flesh with hands in the days gone by, but it's done by the Holy Spirit now. When we believe correctly on the Lord Jesus Christ, God gives the Holy Ghost to us to confirm it, that our faith has been reckoned before Him, and imputed to us for righteousness. Without the Holy Spirit, He's never recognized it yet.
Now, this brother was a good Baptist brother of mine. Said, "You receive the Holy Ghost when you believed."
I said, "Brother, in Acts the 19th chapter, Paul passed a good bunch of Baptist brethren, and he said, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' 'Since you believed, have you received the Holy Ghost?'" The Holy Ghost is the confirmation that God has accepted your faith. Amen.

L-30 Now, Cain was a believer. Look at that spirit what it begin at. Where it began, a religious spirit. And many people today are trying to... I hear ministers on the air, trying to say that communism is the antichrist. Oh, brother. I'm not a know-it-all. I don't want to be that way. God forbid. But that's pure religious ignorance.
Why, the... Communism has nothing to do with the antichrist spirit. Jesus said in Saint Matthew the 24th chapter, "The two spirits would be so close together, it'd deceive the very elect, if possible." The--the antichrist is religion, not a anti-religion. It's an... Antichrist is just so--so close.
Judas was possessed with the antichrist spirit and walked plumb almost to Pentecost with Him, rejoiced, cast out devils, and shouted, and had great joy. But when it come time for him to get the Holy Ghost, he showed his colors, what he was.

L-31 Notice now, Cain a religious man, a worshiper of God walked over, and laid down his sacrifice, and got back, and said, "Lord, receive my sacrifice. All this I have done, and You know my regards to You and my faith in You." Look what a religious man he was. "Lord, I've built You a church, and I've paid into it. And I pay heavy on the plate. And I worship You every day with the sincerity and the integrity of my heart; You know me. And I worship You." And God refused him.
Now, if God only respects a membership, a just person, looking in the face of God and worshiping, if God respects that, and that's His requirement, then He would be unjust to condemn Cain after Cain had done all of that. That's exactly right.
But the Scripture says, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." So be careful Church, while you're in this last days, and things are floating, and these spirits are coming to the head, and the wheat, and barley and vines and everything are coming to a head.


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