<TITLE>12. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 How can a fellow have the blues and believe something like that? Can't do it. The blue days are all over. Amen. All the weariness and sadness is past away now. Can't do it. God said so; it's got to be. Just as sure as there's a God of heaven, we got to do it. God's done said so. He promised it, called us, elected us, knew us before the foundation of the world, and predestinated a Church to be there without spot or blemish.
You're in the Church you've got the predestination. You got Eternal Life. How do you get in the Church? "By one spirit, we're all baptized into one body, seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise, dead--dead in Christ, and heirs according to the promise." In Abraham's promise we're his seed, God working with us, proving, confirming the Word with signs and wonders following.
The world's saying, "It's not so; it's fanaticism." They've said it all down through the ages, still saying it, and always will until Jesus comes. He said, "The world won't see Me no more." That don't only mean the gambler and bootlegger; that means a lot of times preachers. That's right.

L-46 Notice. But God told Abraham now, after the little fellow was born... Before... I just got to bring this again. Maybe it won't hurt to look at it again. It just keeps coming in my mind. How did God do that, when after Lot, fixing to separate there from Sodom, and the Angel come and talked to Abraham. He had things kinda poor. He got the poorest of ground. He gave his brother the best of it. And then, when the Angel come, and spoke to Abraham, and told him, "About this time, according to the time of life, I will visit you..." And Sarah, back in the tent, laughed.
The Angel said, "What'd you laugh for?"
Said, "I never laughed."
Said, "Oh, yes, you did." He's still the same God. That's right. So he said... God had made the promise. No matter what Sarah done or what about it, God had made promise. So He's obligated to His promise.

L-47 And I just imagine, a few days after that, after Sodom and Gomorrah, and the destruction, then Sarah begin to turn back to a young woman and Abraham a young man, and they went down... Now, I know you can't read that just in them kind of words, in the Bible, but if you notice, they took a journey to Gerar. Now, let's just imagine this, and just see how... You know the best way to read the Bible, is not just like a newspaper, and say, "Well, tomorrow it'll be cloudy, and rainy, and so forth." The thing to do it, is become in love with the Author.
Someone said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, if you'd just get some--a little bit of your grammar fixed up, and--and a few of these things there..." Said, "You ought to take some nice schooling and so forth."
I said, "What I need is some nice prayer meetings."
He said--said, "Well, you... I tell you, you'd learn more about the Bible."
I said, "I may not know so much about His Word, but I know the Author, real well, for that's the best thing. As long as you know the Author." Know Him in the free pardoning of sin, by the renewal of His... Him bringing His Immortal Life, and placing it in our mortal bodies, giving us the blessed assurance that, someday we'll see Him as He is, for we'll have a body like His. Isn't that marvelous? Think of it.


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