<TITLE>12. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 Are you ready to lay down and give all your rights as a Canadian? You say, "Well now, look, Mr. Branham, I--I've got a right to get back. I... He done something to me. I--I've just got a right to go bawl him out." But are you ready to be shaved off and forfeit them rights? "Oh, I tell you what I ought to do to that old denominational church of mine." That may be so, but are you ready to be shaved off? God wants lambs that's willing to be shaved off and become creatures of God.
Notice, Abraham up there with Sarah, his wife. No doubt but many times the meal barrel got way down to the bottom. But they still served the Lord. They were in the perfect will of God, though they had to suffer just a little bit to make ends meet.

L-46 Nearly every one that really truly serves God meets them kind of times. Sure we do. And when... Sometimes you wonder how you're going to get the kiddies some shoes for school, how you're going to make this bill and that bill. Don't worry. There's only one thing to do, is rest on His promise. I've never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread; so it doesn't matter.
Oh, how we could stop here and sow testimonies of the great power of God.
One day, while, Abraham, sitting in that condition... He raised up his eyes and looked one hot day, and he seen three Men coming, walking, had dust all over their clothes. And Abraham was spiritual. He recognized immediately Who that was. And he run out and fell down by the side of the Man's feet and said, "My Lord, stop by a little while and set under the tree. And let me bring a morsel of meal. And refresh Yourself, and then you may go on. For this purpose have You come to Your servant."
What? They looked like Men. But you know Who it was? It was two Angels and Almighty God. That's what the Bible says.

L-47 Someone called my hand on that one time and said, "Brother Preacher, do you mean to tell me you believe that was God?"
I said, "Almighty God set down there as a human being, and Abraham went and killed a calf; and God eat the meat of the calf, drunk the milk from the cow, and eat butter and corn bread. The Bible said God Almighty did that, and Angels with Him."
You try to limit God. You try to limit God to your theology; you try to limit God to your--my way of thinking. Why, He will never do it. Well, my God is so great, how did He do it? Why, it was easy. When you see this picture here, you'll never doubt the resurrection. Why, God could just reach out... What are you made out of anyhow?
I was speaking to a doctor the other day. And he was telling me some kind of an idea he had. I said, "Doctor, I want to ask..."
He said, "I believe if a man keeps the golden rule, he will go to heaven."
I said, "I don't."
Said, "Well, who's going to be the judge?"
I said, "God."
"Well, God didn't say I wouldn't."

L-48 I said, "He sure did. He said, 'Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom.'" I said, "I'm just quoting His Word." I said, "If the golden rule would've worked, Christ would not have had to die. The Covenant would not have to been tore apart and just give to you." But I said, "That is God's program, and we must tally up to His program and not our thinking. It's His Word."

L-49 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... what we got to go by. Watch  what happened.
Look, everything that you eat. You live... Your natural life lives by dead substance.
I asked the doctor this. I said, "Doctor, why is it that every time I eat food, do I renew my life?"
He said, "That's right, new blood cells. You renew your life."
I said, "Doctor, when I was sixteen years old, and eighteen, I'd set down and eat beans, corn bread, cabbage, potatoes, and things. And every time I eat, I got bigger and stronger all the time. And now, I'm eating better food, and more of it, and I'm getting older and weaker all the time. Explain that to me?"


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