<TITLE>07. Par 36-41</TITLE>L-36 Notice something fixing to happen here. And God was going to, at this time, settle it before the earth, once forever.
Now, back in the Old Testament... And many of the ministers will know this, and many of you Sunday school teachers and Bible readers. In the Old Testament... And I think here's where our churches has made a great mistake.
And the reason I thought on this, that it might be profitable for tonight... The Old Testament is a shadow of the New. And myself, I have no education; so, I have to be a typologist to know where I'm standing. And if I look at a shadow of something, I can pretty well judge what the positive will be. So in the Old Testament all those things were shadows and types.

L-37 And when a--a child was born into a family... If you'll notice in the Bible, back in the early translators in King James time, King James version, John 14 sounds very strange, doesn't it? "In My Father's house is many mansions."
Mansions in a house? How much bigger is the mansion than a house? Sounds strange. I believe it was Moffatt or one of the other modern translators, who made it more ridiculous than ever, said, "In my father's apartment house is many apartments." Now that doesn't sound like God, you're going up there to rent an apartment from Him.
Now, that's wrong. But if you'll go back to the original, it says, "In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces." Now, the reason King James put it like that, the translators, in the Old Testament and also in the early ages, a man who owned a great portion of country, it was called his house, his household. He had servants over here, and servants over there, and servants down there.
In Africa and many parts of the country, you still find this law. And He was called the Father of over all of this group of servants and grounds, and like Abraham.

L-38 And notice. When a child was borned into that family, a son, he was a son at birth. But that didn't mean that he was an heir yet. 'Cause when that child was born in the family, he was a son because he was born.
Now, many times we have misjudged that. They think, "Oh, praise God, I'm borned again, so that's all that matters." No, sir. You're wrong. You're just then beginning.

L-39 Notice. Then this child, as soon as he was born was given a tutor (many of you know the Galatian letter), of a tutor or a teacher. And this teacher raised this child, bringing his father word all the time how the child was progressing. He educated the child. He raised him up. And he kept word to the father all the time about the child.
Father would come along once in a while and trot his child on the knee and kiss him. But he was a busy man, and he couldn't take time to educate his own child. He had a--a special, selected, the best that he could find to raise that child, because it was his son.

L-40 And that's what the Father God has done for His church. And when we are borned into the church of the living God (and that's the only way we can get into it), for by birth, one spirit. When we're... I've been with the Branham family forty-seven years, and they never did ask me to join the family.
Why? I was borned a Branham. And that's how you become a Christian, when you're not joined a Christian, but borned a Christian.

L-41 Now, notice. And this child being borned a son, a tutor was given to raise the child. And when you were born into the Kingdom of God, God sent us a Tutor, Educator, Raiser. And that is the Holy Spirit Who brings word to the Father constantly how His children are progressing.
How shameful it must be as Ezra, the prophet, blushed before God, that the Holy Spirit must have to blush before the Father of the conduct of His children, how that--how sin has crept into the church. The things that goes on in the church today, that we call ourselves the church of God... I don't want to hurt you now, but I want to help you.


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