<TITLE>08. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Now, this man can keep on; he can go to church and believe that he's a good member (He can be.), support his church, live a good neighbor--live in a good neighborhood, be a--a member of the Kiwanis, and whatever he wishes to be in the ranks of society, still be a good man; give to the poor, and whatever to do...
But at the end time, when this little soul that he's grieved, and he thinks he's all right, he takes his deathbed, and comes down to the end, and the first thing you know, he will scream out, "My God, I'm lost." And the doctor will shoot a hypo in his arm, saying, "Here, here, here, here, you're getting delirious now." And the hypo needle has stopped a many an old fashion deathbed confession.
Listen, a hypo needle will still the lips. But that soul that's moved up yonder that you've grieved away, will haunt you as long as there's an eternity. See? So remember, believe God, accept His Word. Don't doubt it, just say it's so. And don't reason it, just say it's so anyhow, because God said it. Every man or woman that ever got anywhere with God, were men and women who did that.

L-25 Now, now Jude said, "I want you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." Now, if we're going to have to turn back... [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] Pardon me. And if we can find out... Now, I want to put this to you right now before we get further along. If we can find out what kind of a faith that the early church contended for, I believe we should contend for the same type of faith today. Don't you think so? Times change, people change, but God is unchangeable. He never changes. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes. He wrote His Word; it's a blueprint. The builder must build to the blueprint; there's nothing else.

L-26 And now let's drop back in the Book to find out what was the faith that was once delivered to the saints that we're so commanded by the saint to--to believe it, and to contend for it. "The faith once delivered to the saints..."
Now, in order to do that, we'll have to take the New Testament because the Old Testament, they were called saints when they become sanctified. That oughtn't to hurt the Methodist at all. Sanctified, or the sanctified ones, separated, cleansed by the washing of the Blood of the Lord Jesus, cleansed and set aside. God bless John Wesley who was the beginner of it.

L-27 Here not long ago when I was in England to praying for the notable Florence Nightingale, who's picture's in the book that you received tonight. And dying with cancer weighing twenty seven pounds, I believe it was, when she was healed... And his--his loyalty, the king, who had been stricken with multiple sclerosis, was healed also.
They took me up to John Wesley's shrine. They taken me to the place where he preached his sermons to fifteen hundred people every morning at five o'clock. I had the privilege of taking a hold of his shoes, setting in the saddle that he rode here in America when he turned backwards and had his little desk. I set in his chair there with my arms around where he had won a rooster fighter to Christ, and he gave him his chair for a study. And in the room we had prayer where the angels come and caught him away.
When Calvin had went into the--the England and the great Anglican church had got in such a way... They believed that predestination, or whatever was going to be, was going to be, there was no need of revival. And God sent John Wesley with the--the power of the Holy Spirit, and John Wesley believed in Divine healing and the supernatural. I have his textbook at home.


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