<TITLE>07. Par 58-65</TITLE>L-58 Listen, some of the young folks, you may be young, and that may be fragile, till you really don't notice it though. Wait just a little while till you're laying yonder in the hospital, the doctor says you got two days to live, or two hours. Wait just a little bit till that heart begins to skip that beat, and you feel it coming up your sleeve. Oh, brother, you'll be seeking with everything then. What's all life going to amount to then? It's finished. Wait till the hairs begin to turn gray in your head, and you realize that you're facing an endless eternity yonder; and this soul that now lives with inside of you, is breaking out like a--like a tooth being extracted, pulling from you like that to go into somewhere that you know not where you're going, you better think it over now and settle it now. 'Cause you might be snapped out, [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] like that, without even a chance to repent. So get right now.
There is not an excuse to the American people. Those heathens out of--of South Africa, and out of India, way back in there, will rise in the judgment and condemn this generation, because we've got Light, and Gospel, and churches, and blessings, and everything here, and we refuse to accept it. See, that's where the trouble lays, friend. Now, I say that abruptly, because it's for your good (See?), because you must do that.

L-60 Now, "The law having a shadow..." Oh, when I think of that, "The law having a shadow of good things to come..." Look what the law offered. Turn over to the next chapter, the 11th chapter of Hebrews. Look what Daniel done under the law. Look what Enoch done under the law. Look what Moses done under the law. Then if he was only living in the shadow of the atonement, what ought the Christian Church to do today, with the reality of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ? Where are we standing tonight, friends?
I tell you, it ought to make every Christian buckle up the armor. Over there It said, "Put on the full armor of God. And be sure to bring the breastplate, and the helmet, and the shield, and all those things." Paul likened it to a soldier going to battle. And when the wiles of the enemy comes in, throw up your shield, go on out and meet it.
Now, if the law could produce that, what ought the reality of the Blood of Jesus Christ? When a dead letter will do that, what ought the resurrecting strength, and power, and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ produce?

L-63 Now, we ought to come to church with the highest of reverence. We ought to enter the church like real saints of God, walk over and take our position, and keep our minds on Christ. We ought to forsake everything of the world, like that. And if you are really born again... (This may cut now just a little bit, but you know this is the house of correction.) If you're really born of the Spirit of God, that's where your heart lays anyhow. That's what... Your thoughts is anchored yonder. See? If you're ever...
Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life. He that heareth My Words and believeth..."

L-65 Now, if you're believing right... If you just confess it with your lips, it don't do much good. But from your heart, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, you can't live the same life you once lived. You can't, if you ever get a true view of Calvary. Now, if you're just taking just a haphazard way, you're just--you're just fooling yourself.
But when you really get a view of what Jesus was... Oh, my, how I like to preach the Deity, the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. If you could ever realize Who He was, and what He did for you men and women, your hearts would rend within you, and you'd be willing to throw away the trash of the world to live for Him. Oh, how marvelous, and what a Person He was. If you realize the condescending of God Himself, unfolding Himself, coming down till He could get into your heart...


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