<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Two days past, and Brother Brown, over there, he said, "I want in on this too. I want you--I absolutely want to get you some new suits."
I said, "No, the Lord will bring them back somehow."
So we... Two or three days past; he said, "You see," said, "we met a police down there, and the police said, 'Sure, I'll--I'll go up the road looking for it.' (His mother had been healed in my meetings), he said, 'Certainly.'" One of the state police, and we'd told him we lost the suitcase up there, way up in the swamps somewhere, oh, maybe a hu--two hundred miles, three hundred, up and down the road.
So then the next day, we went over, and Brother Jack was just persistent that I was going to get a suit of clothes anyhow.
Said, "Boy, a thousand miles from home, no clothes at home, and none here." Said, "My, what are you going to do without even a handkerchief or a clean shirt?"
Said, "Well, the Lord will take care of that."

L-10 So we went over to Brother Browns, and they--Brother Brown, he was going to come out, and was going to make me go get a suit of clothes. Just about the time Brother Brown come out, the phone rang, it was an old, colored brother called up, and said, "Is--is Brother Branham there?" Said, "I's done found his suitcase, I's on my way." So I... Trust in the Lord. Amen. Whatever it is, all things work together for good. You just can't lose when you become a Christian, just can't lose. Just trust in Him, and whatever the way goes, just keep your sails set to His Spirit. He will guide you into the harbor. It'll all be all right.

L-11 Now, in Job, if you've got your Bible, you who are keeping down the marks. Just for a few moments, not knowing exactly what the Holy Spirit will do tonight... Night by night, we do not understand the way He works. He works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
Now, in the 25th verse, we read like this:
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that at the last days He shall stand upon the earth:
And though after the skin worms has destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God;
May He add the blessings to the Word.
Job, the oldest book in the Bible, was supposed to even be written before Moses wrote Genesis. But the oldest book in the Bible was speaking of redemption, and yet redemption was far be--way before that. Redemption is one of the oldest things in the Bible. Did you know redemption was even before--the plan of redemption was laid out before the world was ever formed? Think of that. God foreseeing, and making a way of redemption before He even made the world. For the Bible plainly says that Christ was predestinated, foreordained, and was the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the world. That's right. Way before the world was made, God had a plan of redemption.

L-12 As soon as Satan... You know the old--the argument is: why couldn't God have by-passed all this, and not had any of it? But God putting Satan almost coequal with Him, Satan taking the things of God and perverted them into the evil thoughts, and through there began to pervert things into evil instead of good. And God, as soon as the first thing was done, out of His great treasure chest of love, He had a plan of redemption, that quick.
Didn't have to sit down, and think it all over, how it would be. He was God, infinite. He knowed how it would be. He had it in His great heart, how He would bring all this about. And then if He foreknew the Church, foreknew Christ, foreknew the plan, and set it all in order, and the world turning around. And you being dead to yourself, dead in Christ, and alive, after you're dead to yourself, alive in Christ, God's working all things together for the good to them that love Him, and how can you lose? You just can't lose; there's no way of losing.


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