<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 So if anybody says, "What does Brother Branham belong to? You tell them a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist." Believe they're Methodist, and Presbyterian, and I--I--I belong to you all of them. That's right. Because I belong to Christ, Who is the Owner of them all, Who has His children in all of them. And they're all my brothers and sisters, and I love them.
Now, I want to read just a little bit out of the Book of Jude, which was written thirty-three years after the--after Pentecost. And we'd like to read and get some context for here for what I want to say.
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James, and to them that are sanctified by God the Father... preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Beloved... I give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
May the Lord add His blessing to the Word.

L-13 Now, as we understand after about three nights of speaking, just our grounds, and we're not strangers to each other no more; we're fellow citizens of the Kingdom of God, pilgrims and strangers to this earth, seeking a city Whose Builder and Maker is God. And we're not here to be a deceiver; we are here to help one another.
You have come tonight, maybe you're not sick; but you've come to support the cause, that somebody else through your faith--might--your faith blended with mine and the rest of them, might help our poor brother and sister who is sick and needy to be well. If I had any other motive besides that, I'd certainly excuse myself and walk off the platform.

L-14 I never want to be found a hypocrite; I never want to be found a deceiver. I'd rather be home with my wife and children tonight, working as a game warden in Indiana, my old job, then to be back--out here trying to deceive people. For I realize, that no matter what I'd ever do, at the end of the road I'd be a castaway. So what good would it do me?
And anyone knows that I don't take money, and I'm not--I'm not... You know I shun people too much from abstaining from popularity, and I--I have no motives at all to be out here at all tonight, only for one thing: that's to help you find Jesus Christ, the only thing; God knows that. Trying my best to help you...

L-15 I believe that God has set in the Church, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and all those gifts and callings are without repentance. God has set in the Church. God does that by His sovereign will, His foreordination by foreknowledge. God knew before the foundation of the world just who would be who; so therefore, He could set that in order, and say, and make it work to His good.
Now, now, there's--now there's nine spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12, that goes into the church. Now, they're just apt to be in anyone. See? They're just over the church. This man here may prophesy tonight, and--and that'd be exactly the truth, but that don't make him a prophet. A prophet and a pro--and a gift of prophecy is two different things altogether. A--a gift of prophecy has--can't even be spiritual; it's got to be judged before three judges, spiritually.
A message of tongues has to be, before the church receives it. Paul said, "Let's leave two or three judge (See?), with discernment of Spirit, before it can be accepted to the church." And this fellow might prophesy tonight and never prophesy again the rest of his life. Tomorrow night it might be on this woman setting here, that man back there. See, it's in the body of believers, and all nine spiritual gifts should be in every local body, operating, and manifest the church.


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