<TITLE>12. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Oh, you say, "I belong to a Pentecostal church." That don't have nothing to do with it, don't have one thing to do, except you're borned again. And when you're borned, the same Spirit that was in the Lord Jesus Christ, comes into you, and you live the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God made a covenant in the Old testament; He made a covenant in the New Testament with the Christ. And every man, when they made a covenant in them days, they took a animal, and killed it, and split it's body, wrote the covenant out on paper, tore it apart, and when they come together again, them two pieces of paper had to dovetail.

L-40 And if we are ever resurrected in the resurrection, the very Life that God tore out of the body of Jesus Christ, taken this body up, and set at the right hand of the majesty on high, and sent back the Holy Spirit; It will make you live a God centered life, or it isn't the Spirit of Christ in you.
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I--I--I've shouted; I've--I've danced; I've spoke in tongues."
Oh, yes, brother, I've seen them speak in tongues and drink blood out of a human skull. That's right. Seen witch doctors lay up a stick, like that, and it write in unknown tongues, and people stand there and read it, interpret it. You wouldn't say they had the Holy Ghost. Now, I'm not saying that you don't speak with tongues with the Holy Ghost. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying you can speak with tongues, and still not have the Holy Ghost. That's right.

L-41 I know that's hard in a Pentecostal church. That's hard with Pentecostal people. But brother, if I love you, I'll tell you the truth. And if I don't tell you the truth, God will hold me responsible at the day of judgment. That's right.
Except the love of God abides in your heart, with love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit living in your life, no matter what demonstration you done, it's no good. Why do you think, that Christ's Church divided? Do you think Christ wants one little cult over here, calling this one's a buzzard's roost, and that one calling them everything else? Do you think the Spirit of Christ does that? Never. We are brothers. By your fruits you're known. Amen.
Oh, my, how that hurts me in my heart, but brother it's the truth. It's off my shoulders, anyhow. Now, I have to answer--won't have to answer for that, 'cause I've told it. All right. Just look the way it runs, you can see whether Christ is in it or not. See? It's Satan moved in, blindfolding the people.

L-42 Notice, when the jubilee sounded, the man could drop his hoe and go home, if he wished to. But, what if he didn't want to? Now, what happened? Then they must take him down to the judges. And the judges taken him to the post; they pulled out his ear; put it up against the post, and bored it through with an awl. And from that time on, never no more, it was a sign that he could never hear that jubilee no more. It was finished. No matter how many jubilees he lived through, he would never be able to do it again, because he was marked, because he rejected. Whew.
That's not skim milk, brother. He was--rejected the truth. And by rejecting the truth, he was doomed forever out of the kingdom of--of the jubilee, back into the fellowship again. You say, "Can we be that way, Brother Branham?" Absolutely.


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