<TITLE>13. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Jesus' death only... If it only took away part sin, if it ever taken away... Some people say, "Well, you should live a better life, turn a new page, this is New Years." Oh, how many resolutions did you make, and all of you broke them? It'll never work. It's a dying out and a rebirth, a regeneration, a new--new creature in Christ Jesus. That's what the world needs today. That's what the Church needs today, is an old-time, apostolic, God-shaken, Holy Ghost revival. That's right. I don't mean in a bunch of fanaticism. I don't believe in a bunch of emotional, worked-up, but I mean a real, true, Blood born salvation that sets men free from sin, and makes him a new creature in Christ. Amen. You know that's the truth.

L-46 Come upon those basis. Come to God like that and see what happens. Recognize the Lord Jesus Christ as your Superior; recognize that you're dead and your life is hid in Him through God and sealed in there by the Holy Ghost, then walk up to Father. You become a part of God, the very nature of God's in you. You're a son of God; you're a daughter of God. You--you wouldn't argue against Divine healing; you wouldn't argue against any miracle God would perform.
God made the world without even anything to make it out of. What did He do? There was no world, no firmament, no nothing. God spoke and said, "Let there be," and the very earth that you're setting over tonight is the created, God's Word, come into existence. Amen. Speak that within your heart, and the lady will get up out of the wheelchair and walk away. Let that... Saying that, throw our crutches away there on the seat tonight. Let the Omnipotent speak, watch the miraculous take place.

L-47 Watch the man there, maybe... It's a far beyond them. Them people may be Christians, solid and sound in Christ. I don't know. Let the man that's an alien, let the man that's been in church for forty years, and yet don't know Jesus Christ in the new birth, let him recognize that and watch what a difference it makes in his life. Look how a new creature rises up here in the midst of you. When he recognizes himself dead, and his life hid in God through Christ, and sealed by the Holy Spirit, and watch what takes place. Sure we got to recognize that.
When a man does that, and by recognition of that, then... Someone wrote to me not long ago, and all of you know I'm a Baptist. All right. And the man wrote to me and said, "Brother Branham, you being a Baptist, and teach something besides faith," said, "how in the world can a man do anything but believe?" Said, "Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and what more could a man do?"

L-48 I said, "That's right. Father Abraham believed God, and it was imputed for righteousness, but--but He give him the circumcision as a sign that He had recognized his faith." That's right. And if God has never circumcised your heart from the things of the world, and recognized your faith, that you confessed in Him maybe forty years ago, and cut off the worldly things, and circumcised you from all the earthly things, and the doubts and scruples that you have, something's happened. Your faith wasn't recognized before God, for He would've cut away the surplus. "Circumcision" means "to cut off surplus flesh."
That's what God does when a man comes to Him upon the basis of the shed Blood of Christ, standing before Calvary, recognizing himself condemned, and standing there with the Word in his heart, saying, "God, I believe It." God manifest His power and love to him, and cuts away the things of the world, and you're no more a worldly creature; you're a heaven bound son and daughter of God on the ladder to glory. Amen. I'm not amening myself, but "amen" means, "so be it," and I know that's the truth.


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