<TITLE>07. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Now, we want to reason together. There's something wrong if it isn't... If He was and He isn't now, then there's something wrong with God. It's... If God was a great mighty warrior in battle and He was a great Healer of diseases, and He was great in all of His attributes in the days gone by, and then He lost all of His power, and He isn't the same today, yet His Word says He is the same today, promised He'd do the very same things through all ages, until He come again... It's undisputable in the Bible.

L-12 Hebrews 13--8:13, 13:8, rather, says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's the same in principle, the same in power, the same in resurrection, the same in omnipotence, the same in omnipresence, the same in--in--in all. He's--He's just the same as He was. And everything that He once was, He is today. The Scripture says that's true. All things of Him is the same.
Now, so if we... Each want to believe that, but yet limit Him to a creed. Well, say, "I belong to the Baptist church." I say Baptist, because that's the church I was ordained in. Say, I--I... Well, the Baptist say, "Well, our creed's right." The Methodist wants their creed right. But if we limit God... That creed, I have nothing against it; that's all right. But if we limit God to that creed, then we limit God. And we try to say that you can walk this far.

L-13 Maybe, we don't have the faith to walk where Enoch did when he took a little walk with God one afternoon and went home with Him without death. And--and also of Joshua, who marched around the walls of Jericho thirteen times and--and shouted real loud and the walls fell down... We may not have the faith to shout down walls. We may not have faith to walk home with God, but let's not stand in somebody's way who does have that faith. If it doesn't agree with our creeds, and they have faith, let's move right on, and believe, say, "The Lord bless you, my brother," and go right now. Regardless of what church he belongs to, that makes no difference as long as he's a Christian and believer. And do you know, Christian friends, that's what the world wants to see today.

L-14 I landed in Bombay, India, where I had the largest crowd of five hundred thousand people, I... The largest crowd I ever preached to at one time in my life was in Bombay. When I met there, here come the bishop of the Methodist church, and many of the great churches, there come the archbishop, the Hindu, Hinduist church there, and many other of the great outstanding churches. They met me out there where thousands of people come to the airport. And when they come and they put me to the Taj Mahal Hotel, and they met in a room similar to this with all the celebrity of the city and the Rajahs and everything.

L-15 And the bishop of the Methodist church, he said, "Brother Branham, we don't expect you, as a missionary," he said, "because we don't want to hear of the word 'missionary,' said, "because you people in the west, with your western education does not understand the Scripture in the light on an oriental Book." And that's true.
With all of our theology, if you ever go to Jerusalem, or the eastern country where this Bible was written, It's a brand new Book to you. Our Western ideas are far from the Eastern ways. You'll not... Can't understand the parables, and so forth, the teaching until you go there and see those same customs lived out today.
And many people would send... I have nothing against seminaries and students and monasteries and so forth, but all of that, they'll never know God. It's only knowing catechism and so forth like that. To know God is to know the Person, Christ Himself, and to know Him is Life. Not to know your text book, or to know your creed, or to know your catechism, isn't Life. It's to know Christ the Person is Life Eternal. And that's what we wish to know.


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