<TITLE>07. Par 55-64</TITLE>L-55 How do you think old Barabbas felt that morning when he heard the Roman coming with a big--from the galleries with the big iron shoes stomping along, the chains a rattling, the spear a dragging on the street, to know that he was going to be killed, and the... When he opened up the door, and Barabbas, a trembling and crying, ready to run out, saying, "Oh, this is the end of me."
Said, "Barabbas, I read, 'You're pardoned, free.'"
"Why," he said, "ain't I going to die?"
Said, "No. You don't have to die."
"Well, what did I have to do for it?"
"Nothing."
"Well, how does this come? "
Then the centurion would've raised him around, say, "See that Man hanging yonder on the cross? See that mockery spit from His face? See the wounds in His hands? Them was yours, but He took your place. He opened the prison door for you, that you, who were condemned to die, He's took your place."
And on Easter morning, God raised Him up for our justification. Why, we're justified. As we believe the story and accept it, peace of justification sweeps into our heart, like fathomless billow rolls, how the waves of His Being.
God didn't leave us comfortless. He knew that it would be all tangled up in the days to come, through teachers and so forth, of the Word, how they would mix it up. But He sent a direct Messenger with it, the Holy Spirit, which is the vindication of the resurrection. If there's no Holy Spirit to vindicate it, then I couldn't believe the resurrection. I wouldn't have nothing but theology, or I wouldn't have nothing but mental conception. But today we don't have to... Mental conception's all right, theology's all right. But we have a direct witness. The Holy Spirit is a Witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, so misunderstood by people today in our day. So misunderstood, but it's the hope.

L-60 When He give the last commission there, when He said, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned. These signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name they shall cast out evil spirits; they shall speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or deadly things, it wouldn't harm them; they'll lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover. The very things that I do shall you do also; even greater than this, for I go unto My Father."...
Someone says, "Brother Branham, was that great commission reached down to this day?" Certainly. "How long?" To all the world. "How many?" To every creature. There you are. To believe it is Eternal Life, to accept it. "Why should I believe it?" you'd say. Because it's the Word of God. That's right. God can't take back His own Word. God once speaks a Word, He's got to stay with it. I can say a word and take it back; you can do the same. But God can't. When He speaks a Word, He's got to stay with it. And He said those Words, so God honors His Word.

L-64 And the resurrection is just as vital today, and just as real to every human heart that believes it, as it was to Mary Magdalene and them that stood at the grave that morning, who seen Him. Here He is, and there her name called, "Mary."
And she looked around and said, "Rabboni," or, "Master." That's just as real to every heart this morning, that's borned again of the Spirit of God, of the resurrection power, as it was to that woman standing at the grave that morning.


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