<TITLE>13. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Some fine, great minister, from down here in the south, took a plane and flew up and met me, some time ago. He said, "Brother Branham, I was reading one of your sermons in a paper." He said, "There's just one thing I want to settle with you."
And I said, "All right."
He said, "How can you do anything else but believe?" He said, "Abraham was the father of the promise, and when he got... He believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What more could Abraham do but believe?"
I said, "That's correct, sir. That's all he could do. But God give him the seal of circumcision, as a confirmation of his faith." And I said, "Ephesians 4:30, says, 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption.' If you raise up and confess Christ, and say that you believe Him with intellectual faith, and God's never give you the Holy Ghost yet, He's never confirmed your faith yet." Amen.

L-32 That's the confirmation, is the Holy Spirit. You believe; God confirms it with the Holy Ghost. Then you believe it with your head; God puts it in your heart by a birth. Amen. That's kinda a little old fashion, but, brother, it's kept me all these years, and I've stared death in the face. I'm ready to trust it on. And if it was good enough for me, it was good enough for Paul, it was good enough was Silas, it was good enough for the Hebrew children, it'll take you through too, if you'll just believe it.
All right. Waters of separation: come hear the Word. Just like usually people come... I know, I passed through the city, and seen these big homes. I appreciate that. But there's none of you but lives in a three room house. That's all you can live in. You just live in a three room house. When God was here, He lived in a three room house. That's all you could live in. The first is your kitchen. The next is your dining room, or living room. And the next is your bedroom. You may have three or four bedrooms, or a couple of dining rooms, or something, but really, that's just extra rooms.

L-33 You come first to the kitchen. The kitchen's where you eat. After you come and eat, like the church, you set on the bench and hear the Word. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." Then after you have eaten the Word, then you come into the living room, which is into fellowship with the rest of the church. Then after that, the secret place is the bedroom, where you go in and kneel down, where you a bunch of you mammys used to, a long time ago, go in there and pray for your children when they was out at night. That's what's the matter with the world today, instead of them old fashion mammys back yonder a long time ago, that prayed for their kiddies and things, they're out with their kiddies tonight smoking, drinking, carrying on like they are. That's the reason we got juvenile delinquency. They talk that we're more civilized than they were. I doubt it. Uh-huh. Then we sure don't act like it. That's one thing true. I like that old fashion type.
Why, let me tell you, brother, they talk about the illiteracy of Kentucky. I preached up in them old mountains there, when they was standing on the hillside, and those old mammys out there, them big, old, long bonnets on. And the women around, said, make fun of them, say, "Look at them. Don't they look like old models or something like that?"


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