<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>57-0303E, What Think Ye Of Christ?, Madison Square Garden, Phoenix, AZ, 96 min
L-1 In the Presence of the almighty God to offer prayer... Our most beloved heavenly Father, it is indeed a great privilege that we have to come to Thee in the way of prayer, and with the great promise behind it, that prayer changes things. And in this day that we are now living, there is so many changes needed, and we pray that You will change all the wrong to right. Change sorrow into joy; change sickness into health; change sin into righteousness; change gloom into glory. Grant it, Father. Hear the prayers of Your people as we offer it to Thee in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy lovely Son. Amen. You may be seated.

L-2 Mr. Moore was just this afternoon met me, and he said, "Brother Branham, last night you preached three sermons in one or three different sermons." He said then... Tonight he met me out there, and he said, "You never preached three different ones, but you tried to put three in one." And I was trying to get him to speak for me tonight, because of a tired throat. But it falls my lot to speak again, the Lord willing.
In just a short time to recuperate after getting out to the place I'm staying... The Lord seemed to lead me to this portion of the Scripture to read to you, His children tonight. That's Saint Matthew the 22nd chapter and the 41st and portion of the 42nd verse.
And while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? And they said unto him, The son of David.
Now I wish to take for a text the five little words out of this reading: "What Think Ye Of Christ?"

L-3 Today I was trying to get to you in the afternoon service about the watch, the little mainspring in the watch, which makes all the watch what it is. I did not mean to be rude, but I only meant to show a picture of the condition of the church. We are trying to show the people what a fine case its got on the watch, fourteen carats. Or we might be able to show the people what a fine face it has on it, or what fine hands it has on it, or even to the little jewels on the inside. But with all this fine mechanism of the watch, it is of no value to you for time except it has the mainspring that makes all these things work together to keep time.

L-4 Today the church is trying to show their big fine buildings, their fourteen carat cases, or some of them, an unbreakable face. And many times we're trying to tell them of the rubies that we have, the gifts that are in the church. And they're all right. There's nothing wrong with them things. And when I try to explain or speak on the different gifts in the church, and how yet everybody seems... Not everybody, pardon me. But many seem to be defeated while they have these gifts. It isn't because the gift is no good. It's because the mainspring isn't moving it in the right way. You might shake it and make it tick a couple of times, but the mainspring keeps it ticking all the time and makes it operate perfectly.

L-5 Now, in this little portion of Scripture that I have here under consideration for a text, it is such a little tiny thing: five little words. But what makes it what it is, is because it is the Scripture. The valuation of the Word, the Word is so valuable. No matter if it's one little Word, it's the value of the Word. The Word was in the beginning a thought of God. And then it became, after a thought... A word is a thought expressed. And when God thinks of anything, then when He expresses His thought, it becomes a signed document. And everything that God is worth, and every thing that God is, is behind that Word.
No man is any better than his word. And all the Bible is, is prophets who has went up into the place where we spoke today of the eagles. And God has let them foresee what God spoke in the beginning. For in the beginning God knew everything that ever would be, from the very first beginning. So you see the value on the Word.


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