<TITLE>13. Par 50-54</TITLE>L-50 How many feels just all ready to go? Oh, isn't that wonderful? If the trumpet shall sound, what difference does it make? We'd drop a cross and receive a crown. We can't fail. God's already accepted us. He's sent His Spirit. His Spirit is here with us, doing, performing, acting, just exactly what He said would take place.
Aren't you glad that God called you? Then you can feel sorry for those; don't condemn them, but feel sorry for those whose eyes are closed and can't see it. They cannot see it unless God knew they would see it before the foundation of the world. "For all He foreknew, He called: those who He called, He justified: those who He justified, He hath glorified," already. It's written in His Books. Christ come to redeem those who God by foreknowledge knew that would receive Him. Amen. If that isn't a wonderful thing.

L-51 And to know that here we are this afternoon, just at the end time, and all these great things happening, and here we are safely in Christ. Your life proves it. Now, if your life don't tally up to it, you're deceived. That's right. But if you see it, understand, praising God for it, your life is full of righteousness of God; it ain't hard for you to do something that's...
You don't want to do anything's wrong. There's where the two great schools went off on the deep end, the Arminian doctrine. You've got to do a certain thing and do a certain thing. That's works. And the other side, the Calvinists, went "Bless God, I'm saved, I do what I want to." See? But the middle of the road is it. If you love Him you won't do anything wrong, like to your wife.

L-52 My little wife, I'll go overseas quite often. When I go overseas I don't go off and get her and say, "Mrs. Branham, thou shalt not have no other husbands while I'm gone."
And she don't get me by the collar and say,"Young man, no other wives." Would--wouldn't that be a home? No. We get down and pray. I kiss her good bye. I say, "Sweetheart, pray for me."
She say, "I'll be praying every hour, Billy." There we are. I don't worry whether she's going to have any husband. I don't... She don't worry whether I'm going to have another wife. Why? We love one another. And as long as we love one another, it'll always be that way. Certainly.

L-53 Now, what if I get overseas, or somewhere, and I--and I would do something that was wrong, I would make love to another woman. I believe she'd forgive me for it. If I come tell her, I believe she'd forgive me. But that poor little thing at thirty-seven years old and gray headed, that stood between me and the public, and become that way, I love her too much, if she'd forgive me everything, that I wouldn't hurt her for nothing. I love her. I love her. And as long as I love her like that, she hasn't got a worry in the world, on that.
And as long as you love the Lord with all your heart, you won't smoke any cigarettes, drink any whiskey, do anything that's wrong. You love the Lord. But you could quit smoking, drinking, and everything else, and don't love Him, you're still lost. That's right. "Not by works, but by grace are you saved."

L-54 Now, if your life tallies up to the life of Jesus Christ, that is, He said in His Word there: "If you say to this mountain, Be moved, and don't doubt, but believe that it's coming to pass; you can have what you say," what you say. The only way you could move that mountain would have to be Deity speaking. When you're a son of God you receive God, which is Zoe, God's own life, and you, become a part of God. Then if your objective is right, and your motive is right...


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