<TITLE>21. Par 204-214</TITLE>L-204 And he said, "One day, I was coming in from making a sale out in the yard, and I happened to reach in my pocket, and somebody had give me a little old tract." And said, "I sit down in the office and begin to read this tract." And said, "The awfullest feeling come over me, that I ought to get right with God." He said, "I've been searching ever since."
I said, "I want to ask you something? When this feeling come over you, you've never been able to get out of it?"
He said, "No, sir, I haven't."
I said, "Well, that's when you received Christ." I said, "It doesn't mean raising up your hands. That's all right. Speaking in tongues, that's all right." And I said, "Shouting, that's all right. But that's the attributes of Christ after He come in." I said, "To receive Christ is to receive the Person, Christ Jesus, to receive Him is Life." I said, "Shouting, speaking in tongues, and all demonstrations," I said, "that is attributes that follows This. But first, is to receive Christ."

L-207 He said, "Then, Brother Branham, I've been saved all the time?"
I said, "Sure. Look," I said, "Do you love Him?"
He said, "With all my heart."
I said, "One time you didn't love Him."
He said, "That's right."
"And now you love Him?"
He said, "Well, that's the truth."
"Well, you had Him all the time."
And he jumped off the porch, and begin crying, and holding me in his arms, and said, "O God, I've been a Christian all these years."
You see, the thing of it was, he wasn't straightened out in the beginning. Hallelujah.

L-210 What? You couldn't make a lamb out of a pig, if you had to. He's a pig to begin with; he tends to his own business, and tell the lamb to take care of his own business. The only way that you could make that pig believe that it's wrong to be in the pig pen, would put a lamb spirit in him. If he ever gets a lamb's soul in him... Or, a lamb ain't got no soul. But if he ever gets a lamb's spirit in him, the very nature of the thing... That's the reason you can't make, convert a pig; you can't convert a lamb, because he ain't got no soul. What he is in his spirit, he's got that same nature forever. See?
But a human being can be changed from a pig to a lamb, because he's got a soul made in the image of God. Amen.

L-212 Well, his thoughts changed. Something does it for him. Hallelujah. "As a man thinketh in his heart." See? Christ the Creator come to him in a still form, and created. His Own Spirit took the man's nature away, to love dancing, and the world, and carrying on, and from that time he just laid it aside and was hungering after God. And God was in him all the time. It was God in the beginning. See? There you are. Amen.
"As a man thinketh..." It has to become a thought before it can become a word. And a word expressed, materializes. I believe in my heart that I am a Christian, because I have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ; if I don't cry, if I don't move, if I don't do a thing. In my heart first, I believe that Christ died for me in my stead. Amen. I accept it as a Christian; I believe it as a Christian; then it's in my heart. Then I express it in a word, "I am a Christian." Hallelujah. Then I start walking as a Christian, talking as a Christian, living as a Christian, being as a Christian. And by my fruits I'm recognized by the world as a Christian. Hallelujah.

L-214 Say, I didn't aim to get that loud. But I... But there It is, God's Word. Jesus said... Here it is. Oh, just tell me when I'm long enough. But well, Jesus said this. Look, "In the beginning..." Notice. See, "A man, as he thinketh in his heart." Now, listen what Jesus said. We won't get...


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