<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Jesus said...?... they crucified Him. But He promised to return. He said, "For this Gospel that has been preached to all the world for a witness that He would return. And He won't return and He can't return until that has been done. Jesus is depending on the church to carry out His orders. And to substitute teachers of theology and so forth, and left off the real things that making it so real. Preach the Gospel.
Well, then God... Well, you say, "Well, Brother Branham, have we preached the Gospel all these years?" With reverence I say no. See?
Did you know that two thirds of the world has never even heard one word about Jesus Christ? Two thirds of the population of this world has never heard the Lord Jesus Christ. One third... And Christianity is about three or four place behind: first Mohammedan, Buddha, and so forth then Christianity, all Protestant and Catholic put together. See how far we are behind them?

L-23 Then in all... Then we have our little differences between each other, between the Catholics and Protestants. The Protestants... This is the full Gospel, and "We had...?..." and so forth. Every one of them getting...?... here we're fighting against one another.
My, do you see? Let's just stop a few minutes and think about these things then. And let me tell... I love great joy. That's why we--that's why we worship the Holy Spirit in song. We need to have..?... But there's got to be time that we got to shuck the corn before we can eat it. But let's get down to real hard Gospel teachings and thoughts, see where we can get started right...?... and like that.
The Gospel doesn't mean passing tracts. They're fine. God give us more tracts societies. It's one way of doing it. But I think that the--the tract society has done a greater job and it gets more...?... done, than we Gospel preachers would do, if and not...?... That's right. Because...?... on the earth yet.

L-24 The Gospel is not, "Go out and teach them the Bible." That isn't the Gospel. It said in the Scriptures that the Gospel didn't come to you just in Word only, but through the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. The Gospel, that is the Word... But the letter killeth; the Spirit giveth Life.
Now, a seed laying here on the...?... pulpit here, is just a seed until it dies and becomes germitized--germitized and dies, it'll never do anything. So the seed... The Word here has to be made manifest in order to be of God.
He said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Now, to people...?... that the Word was... To take a word is the expression of thought. It has to be a thought before it can be a word. So God, in the beginning, gave the thought of what would be, spoke the Word what for; we see, we receive the Word, and it produces what God thought was. The Word is the Gospel in seed form.

L-25 If you ask me for... Say, "Brother Branham, in your country you have acorn trees. Would you give me an acorn tree?" And I'll give you a--an acorn. You have a... You have an acorn tree potentially. But it's in the seed form. You can't say you have actually got a tree until the seed has produced a tree.
Well, preaching the Word is the acorn, but making it live is the Gospel. See? That's right. If He promised the Holy Spirit, that's the Word. And receiving the Holy Spirit is making it live, manifesting. If He promised these blessings by the Word, then He's sending the Word and producing what He said--is the Gospel. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature."


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