<TITLE>10. Par 32-34</TITLE>L-32 But what did Mary say? She never questioned it. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to thy Word," and what did she do? She never waited till she was positive. She never waited... You're a mixed audience. You'd listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother, but listen. She never waited till she felt life or anything else that she was positive. As long as God said so, that was enough for her to have it. She took God at His Word, and begin testifying that she was going to have a baby before she had any evidence other than the Word of God. You see? She was Abraham's seed. Just as soon as God said so, and you read it in the Bible, take Him at His Word, and start thanking Him for it.
When the Holy Ghost fell on the people at Pentecost, they'd took God's Word. He never said, "You wait up there two days, three days, ten days." He said, "You wait until," and they were up there thanking Him and praising Him for His promise when the Holy Ghost came. Take Him at His Word. Thank Him for it. If you need healing, you need liberation from anything, receive it, believe it, take His Word, thank Him for it, and call those things which are not as though they were. If they're anything with God's Word.

L-33 Now, how's this woman sixty-five years old and a man seventy-five years old going to have this baby, but God said so. And they made arrangements for it. Now, Abraham failed to do like the human being. Now, if the covenant would've been on conditions right here his... First thing, his daddy give him a lot of trouble. Then his father died, and then instead of separating himself, he took a big bunch along with him. That's about the way we do. You know what I mean. All right. I won't have to speak that, 'cause I believe you caught that. All right.
Next thing what taken place? There was Lot. When God said, "Separate yourself from everybody," the walk with Christ is an individual walk. You walk, you stand alone with you and God alone. Not you and the pastor, you and God alone. Not you and the deacon. Sometimes you and your wife, you and your husband, but you and God alone. You stand alone on your convictions. Salvation is not a church affair. It's an individual affair.
Church is a gathering place where we come in one common grounds and worship God. But salvation isn't because you've joined the church, it's because you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your personal Saviour, and then you have to do more than that now. It isn't just a make-believe.

L-34 Some very good Baptist friend of mine... You know I'm a Baptist myself, but I'm a Baptist that got the Holy Ghost. Look. So look. He said to me, he said, "Brother Branham, you're speaking of the Holy Ghost." He said, "Well, we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe."
I said, "Oh, no. That's not what Paul said. Paul in Acts 19 said, 'Have you received...' (talking to Baptist people, Apollos' converts, Yes sir, the converted lawyer). He said it, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?' That's right."
Why, he said, "Brother Branham, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What more could a man do but believe God?"
I said, "That's all he can do, but God give him the seal of circumcision as recognizing his faith."


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