<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 And when He was here on earth, and He went in... After He was filled with the Spirit at the baptism of John, He went into the wilderness, was tempted forty days; coming out, the devil met Him. He was 'course, just the antitype of Moses. And he tempted Moses on his weak point. And Moses with his temper, he broke all the commandments. And it showed that the priesthood would be broken.
But when Jesus, His weak point: He was hungry; He'd been fasting forty days. And when He--Satan met Him and said, "If Thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into bread." And Jesus, now with all the powers of God in Him, yet He never used any of His powers; He brought it right down simple enough that the least of Christians, or the weakest of Christians, could use the same thing. He said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

L-21 He took Him up on the top of the pinnacle of the temple and said, "If You'll cast Yourself down here, while, give the angles charge concerning Thee," and so forth.
Jesus said, "It is written," the Father's Word again.
And he taken Him up on a mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, every one of them, and said, "They're all mine, I will do with them what I want to." You see why we have wars and everything. Who's the ruler of this world now. And he said, "I will give them all to you if You'll fall down and worship me."
Jesus said, "It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God and Him only shalt thou serve." And Jesus defeated Satan on the Word of the Father.
And you can do the same thing. No matter how bad he tempts you in saying it's not right, it's just... Say, "It is written." And the Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, no matter what it is. If you'll stand toe to toe with him and say, "It is written." "God said so; that settles it." If God said so; it really makes it the truth. All the heavens and earth will fold up someday and be no more. But God's Word is eternal and cannot fail, because God has spoken it. And He...

L-22 Do you realize that the very earth that you're setting over tonight, is nothing more than the Word of God. Did you know God made the world out of His own spoken Word? If you didn't, where did He get the material? He said, "Let there be." And it materialized and made a world. "Let there be." And there was light. "Let there be." And He believed His own Word. And His own Word brought the earth into creation. He made the world out of things which was not and does not appear, yet He made the earth that you're setting over tonight. He made the chair that you're setting on tonight; His spoken Word brought the material into the earth, the Word of God. Amen. You begin to think how little we are, and how poorly, and--and--and how little it is to disbelieve God's Word, when everything that we see was made by His spoken Word. He spoke it into existence.
He spoke you into existence. He spoke me into existence. Oh, my, when we think of that, the little old doubts just drop away when we see who He is. Why, He held out His hands and phfff [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] blowed the moon and stars into existence. What do you think of that? Who made the solar system...


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