<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 Now, what is it? How was they sealed? That was sealed by the ear, "For faith cometh by hearing." And if the hearing is cut off, the hearing of the Gospel... I don't mean physical hearing, spiritual hearing. Your spiritual ears to the good things of God has been marked; you rejected it for your last time. Then you're sealed out, may be very religious.
Now, you say, "Could it be possible that a person could belong to a church then, Brother Branham, going to church, and being very sincere with all their sincerity, and still be lost?" Absolutely. That's right. The most sincere people I ever seen were pagans and heathens: just as sincere, giving their babies for sacrifice, torturing themselves, and everything, all the sincerity that you could think of.
The Mohammedan's sincere; Buddha's sincere. The Jain's sincere, so sincere they wouldn't touch a little ant or nothing at all: very sincere, far beyond anything that Christianity has ever produced, that I can see, especially in this day. Sincerity doesn't mean it. The Scripture said, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man." Seems like it have to be all right, but God has a way. And you've got to come, not the way that seems right, but the way that God says is right. Amen. That's the way of the cross.

L-14 Now, over in the book of Ephesians we read, now, what the seal of God is. We see what the seal of the devil is. Now, in Hebrews 10... First will we go to the seal of God: "For if we disbelieve wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin."
If the truth has been presented, Jesus Christ came to earth to present truth, and not only present truth, He was the Truth. And the religious people of that day, said, "Now, we know that He is, has mental telepathy. We realize that He's reading their minds out there. But we believe that all of His healings and things that He does, is only by the devil. Because He don't agree with our denomination." So they said, "He's a devil."
Jesus said, "Now, you can say that against the Son of Man. For you've got the truth presented to you. You really know it's the truth," in other words.
Nicodemus expressed it, said, "We know, Rabbi, Thou art..." We who? The Pharisees. "We know that Thou art a Teacher come from God. We know it. For no man could do the things like You do, 'less God was with him. And we know that You're a teacher come from God. And, I had to slip up here of the nighttime to get in to talk to You," in other words. A tradition, separating man by their traditions... Oh, my.

L-15 And I look at that, and I see then that great Christ standing there. He said, "Now, you can say that against the Son of Man..." because the atonement had not yet been made. Christ was there, but He was in the blood cell of the shell. But unless that cell was broken by the Roman spear, because the sin at Calvary... And the Holy Spirit would release them to every believer that would come through the shed blood...
He said, "Whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Spirit, has no forgiveness in this world or the world to come." In other words, "You, Pharisees, the Holy Spirit isn't in the world now, so It's loosed to every believer. So you'll be forgiven of it, but one day that Holy Spirit's a coming, and then let that generation then say something against It and call the very same works the devil, and they'll never be forgiven in this world, or the world to come.


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