<TITLE>20. Par 77-80</TITLE>L-77 There was no harm could come. The tiger laid down; Leo, the lion, laid down. Nothing would harm. Then along come sin, brother. It spoiled that beautiful picture. Eve would've never needed Max Factor to fix her cosmetic face. No, sir. It was God, the very blush of Eternal Life in her made her beautiful. She would never have to have manicures and everything like they do today. Sin is what brought you to that place.
Brother, I'm telling you, every man and woman... Why is it when we eat, we renew our life. And then when we get to be... I asked the doctor; I said, "Doctor, every time I eat, do I renew my life?"
He said, "That's correct, Brother Branham."
I said, "Why is it, I eat the same thing now I eat when I was sixteen years old; when I was sixteen I'd eat, I'd get big and stronger all the time; I eat the same food now and get older and weaker all the time? Tell me why it is." I said, "If I'm pouring water out of a jug into a glass and it's filling up, and all at once the more I'm pouring in the lower it gets. Explain it to me scientifically."
He said, "Reverend Branham, that cannot be done."
I said, "Yes, it can, doctor. I beg your pardon, but the Bible said so. 'It's appointed unto man,' and man's going to meet that appointment." But, brother, in the blessed resurrection every wrinkle and every old age mark will be done away. That's the mark of sin and all these...?... of sin will be done away with. Hallelujah! There we'll be young there forever.

L-78 My wife said the other day to me; I was combing what few hair I had left. She said to me, "Billy, you're getting bald-headed."
I said, "My sweetheart, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "What's that, dear?"
I said, "I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Where are they at?"
I said, "Sweetheart, let me ask you one thing; you answer me, and then I will you."
She said, "All right, dear."
I said, "Where were they before I got them? They were somewhere. Ever where they was 'fore I got them, they are there waiting for me in the resurrection." Hallelujah. Only... Yes, brother. Yes, brother.

L-79 Now, look. I want to ask you something. If it took the Holy Ghost to brood you out of the earth, and out of the earth you have come, and here you are now to a--up to an intelligent person; and now, if you, without any choice, the Holy Spirit made you what you are today, then how much more can He Who brought you from the earth in the first place, raise you up in the last days, though your body be scattered from the east to the west?
Remember your bodies was laying here when the Holy Ghost begin to brood in the first place. If It didn't, where did it come from? You're calcium, potash, and cosmic light, and petroleum, the life here on the earth... God has put you together. And no else could do it. You can't get potash and calcium and pull it together and make a man. It takes the Spirit of the Life of God to come into the man to make him what he is.

L-80 My friends, don't you be deceived. God doesn't run His church upon intellectuals. It's the brooding of the Holy Ghost, trying to say, "Do you love Me? Do you believe Me?" And if He brought me what I am, without me having any more--any choice, how much more will He give me back my life with Eternal Life with it. If I brood back to Him, say, "Yes, Holy Spirit, I don't care what the world says. I love You. I love You. I love You." How much more will He watch the calcium and potash in that great day. He will speak and that body of flash back again: every hair on the head, every bit of the strength that was in my body when the Immortal Life will come forth again. Yes, brother. God gave the Holy Ghost the job of taking care of the church.


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