<TITLE>07. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Now, when He was here on earth, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Now, the vine does not bear fruit; the vine only energizes the branch; and the branch bears fruit. Do you know that? If you went to a pumpkin vine, you get a pumpkin, if it's a fertile vine. To a watermelon, you get a watermelon. You go to a grape vine, you get grapes.
Here it is: And when you come to the church, you ought to find Christ. But what do you do on His Vine? You find denomination, fussing, fighting, arguing, everything else but the fruit of Christ. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also. A little while and the world (kosmos, world order)--the world won't see Me no more; yet, ye shall see Me, for I (And 'I' is a personal pronoun.), I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." The Bible said He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-20 Now, there's only three races of people; we all know that. That's Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan. And a Samaritan is half Jew and Gentile. That's Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, the three sons of Noah, where the human race started from after the antediluvian destruction.
Now, notice, both Jew and Samaritan, which was half Jew and Gentile, looked for the coming of the Messiah, but not the Gentiles; they were Roman heathens, and so forth. But they looked for the coming of the Messiah. Now, if the Messiah came in their day and manifested Himself in a certain way, He's got to do the same thing to the Gentiles, or He did wrong by manifesting Himself back there in that manner. If He lets us go on into eternity without doing the same manifestation, then He did, let us just say, "Well, because we are the church; we are this; we're the most gracious church; we're the powerful church; we're the best Bible church,." on things like that, and let us go into eternity without manifesting Himself...

L-21 They had the same thing, Pharisee, Sadducee, Herodians, and so forth. But He come and never took sides with any of them. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, believe the works." And watch, when He left. "As the Father has sent Me, so send I you." And the Father that sent Him, went with Him, and was in Him. And the Christ that sends the man, goes with him and is in him: Jesus Christ in His Church, His branches energizing them, bringing forth the same fruit that He brought when He was here on earth. When He's come to the Church in the last days, He come in the fullness of the light of the Son.

L-22 Now, only one way that we could be just, to explain it. If I'd say, "You Methodist, what do you think about Him?"
"Sure, He's the same yesterday. But you see, we don't believe in this, and we don't believe in that."
To the Presbyterians, What about you? Same thing. Baptist, What about you? Same thing. Pentecost, what about you? Same thing. The Presbyterian said, "Well, we think that we keep Christ's Word; that settles it."
All right, "What about the baptism of the Holy Ghost?"
"Oh, we don't believe that, that was for another age."
What about you Baptist? "We believe that we should be baptized, immersed. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou and thy house should be saved and be immersed."
"What about the Holy Ghost?"
"We receive the Holy Ghost very time we believe."
Paul differs with you. He said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed." And me being a Baptist. But I'm a Pentecostal Baptist.
Now, what do you say about you Pentecostals? "Oh, bless God, Brother Branham, we got the fullness when we spoke in tongues."
You didn't; that's exactly right. You look it in the face; that's not the way He manifested Hisself back there to the church. Although, He does speak through tongues; I believe in speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues; but that's not all of it. That's right. We had time, I'd like to preach to the placing of a son and find out whether it's right or not by the Scripture.


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