<TITLE>18. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 When I got off in India with the great Bishops that met me there, he said, "Brother Branham, we've heard much of your work." Said, "Now, don't come here and try to be a missionary." Said, "Don't come here and try to teach us the Word, because we know more about it. We had the Word when Thomas come down here two thousand years ago." And I preached at Saint Thomas' Church. Said, "I..." Said, "Thomas came down here and brought us the Gospel two thousand years," said, "we had it eight hundred years before you was a nation. So don't try to come tell us about the Word. We know more about the Word. But what we want to know, has God blessed you, with the return of the Holy Spirit to make the Word live again?"
I said, "Jesus raised from the dead, sir."

L-58 There stood those teachers there, seventeen different religions entertained me, and all seventeen against Christ. There stood the one worshipping a flea, the other worshipping a cow, one worshipping the sun, the other one worship Mohammed, the other Buddha, all different kinds of gods, and making fun of Christianity. And they got the Bible and handed it right out to us and said, "You teachers, that say Jesus raised from the dead..."
And Doctor Reedhead standing there, the President of the Sudan Mission, the biggest in the world. He said, "If you teachers of Christianity will make--prove that Jesus raised from the dead, we'll accept it."
Said, "Now, what do you mean by proving?"
He said, "Do the things that Jesus said you would do and we'll believe you. Do it, and we'll believe you." I was setting biting my teeth. He said, "Let me see you teachers produce." Said, "Mohammed wrote a bible." It's called the Koran, you know. And so one of the--the Bishops said, "Where are you referring to, sir? Perhaps Mark 16?" He said, "One of them, yes."
"Why," he said, "sir, that was an error in our Bible. Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not inspired."
He said, "What kind of a book are you reading? Part of it's inspired and the rest of it's not?" Said, "Let me tell you kind, sir, all the Koran's inspired."

L-59 Oh, what a dig. What a black eye to Christianity."
I stood, I thought, "O God. You atheotic, wait till the time comes. God's under obligation to His Word. Jesus lives and reigns."
Then the Bishop's a talking to them, and he said, "Let me see you teachers produce it." Said, "Mohammed taught life after death; we believe it. Your Jesus taught life after death, and you believe it." Said, "Other words, all the resurrection, and all that stuff," said, "prove it." Said, "You've had two thousand years to do it in. And you Christians are fifth place." And we are. Why? Because the teachers have failed, teaching theology instead of the resurrection and power and life. Yes, that's a statement, but it's true.
He said, "You've had two thousand years to do it." And said, "Two-thirds of the world's never heard of Jesus Christ." And that's the truth. Why? Because we build churches, because we had petty organization. We've work for them instead of getting down and talking it out with Christ until the Holy Spirit become a manifestation of living truth to us. Amen.


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