<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And this dirt that you're setting over tonight is just a creative power of Almighty God, the creative Word. That dirt is the Word of God made manifest. Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]...?... Yes, sir.
The very dirt that you're setting upon tonight there, is the Word of God. Amen. That post standing there is the Word of God made manifest. I'm here tonight because the Word of God made manifest. Amen.
Oh, my, don't that just give the devil a black eye. Oh, it sure does. It's the Truth; It's the Word.
Now, there they were, and he said, "Now,...?... come out there, you bring your the child out, we'll see how much power these disciples has got."
Well, they got them all excited, you know, and here they was standing around, the association standing around with their hands behind them, saying, "Uh, huh. There you are. The kid's no better than what he was, not a bit, not a bit."

L-20 What could you do anything with such stuff as that hanging around? Yes. There it was. So the disciples were all trying to cast him away. Oh, they had the power now. Jesus said they had it. Christ gave them individual power to do it, and they had done before, but said, "Let me see you do it now. Let me see you do it."
Now, let me settle this in your mind forever. When you hear anybody saying that, know it is the devil speaking through that person.
Let me show you just on a Word. The first time that the devil met Jesus Christ, he doubted Him. Doubt always is of the devil. That's where the first sin come. There is no other sin but doubt. Unbelief is the original and only sin.
Committing adultery is not a sin; smoking cigarettes is not a sin; getting drunk's not a sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. Amen.

L-21 You talk about... People said, "Brother Branham, you say he...?... believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved." That's what God says. The trouble of it is I'll say something and make out like you believe, but really believe you settle the whole thing. That's right. Faith...
Notice. In the garden of Eden the very first original sin was because Eve doubted the Word of God, and when Satan met Jesus and...?... offspring of Eve, the woman's Seed, he used the same technique he did on Eve.
First thing was that appetite, and the next thing he said, "If Thou be the Son of God, do a miracle here before me. Let me see You do something--a miracle."
Now, when you hear a person say that, you know who's talking through that person. It's the devil. That's right. He said, "Let me see you do a miracle now before me so I can see it. Let me see You turn these stones into bread, and eat yourself full again, I'll believe You are the Son of God."

L-22 Jesus turned right back with the Father's Word. He could've done something else. But to bring God's blessings to the weakest of a believer, you could take... You don't have to have gifts. Just have faith in God's Word.
Jesus never used any of His gifts, any of His power. He used the Father's Word. He turned around and said, "It's written men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
When He was a prophesier, we knowed He saw visions. He could tell what was wrong with the people, tell them what their secret of their heart was, and so forth, said, "These signs would follow on to the end of the world."


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