<TITLE>25. Par -</TITLE>L-37-1 And you take the little brother standing down on the corner, crying his eyes out, and maybe standing down there beating an old guitar saying, "Brothers, come, find the Lord."
Pastor walk by, "Humph, I wouldn't have my congregation... Why, I wouldn't associate... wouldn't let--wouldn't let Liddie and Johnny and them see me around such a place as that."
Go on, seed of the devil. You're headed for your eternal destination anyhow. That's right. I could have said another word there, and said bastard children. And that's just about where it's at. For you see, you... "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me, I'll raise in the last day. There's nothing going to be lost. I got it. I'll keep it." No man can do it except this. All lays in Him. You all can't say I done one thing. It's the grace of God that done it all. So nothing I done. I never had a thing to do; you never neither. You never merited one thing. God did every bit of it. You never turned your finger for one part of it.
You can say, "Well, I come out of a good family. I did this." That don't have one thing to do with it. God is the One Who did it. God's mercy.

L-37-5 I'm sorry now, it ain't quite eleven o'clock, but I'm going to close anyway. See? How many understands that the Bible speaks of these things to be the truth, you Branham Tabernacle people especially? Now, that's just about one-sixteenth of what we teach and believe. But remember, to you bystanders I might say this, you people that doesn't come here as a member: the way we believe this, that this is the Bible, and the Bible is God's Truth.
And we believe that in the Old Testament now, they had a way of knowing what was the truth and what wasn't the truth. Now, we all know that they had the written Law. How many knows that? The law, the--the commandments was in the ark and so forth. All right. And the law on the commandments... It said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ever who commits adultery is stoned." See? That was the --the commandment and the law on the commandment. Now, the ark was setting like this. The commandments was down in there, and the laws of the commandments was in the pockets on the side of the ark. If man come down here, and committed adultery, they reached down here and got what the law said. "Stone him." They took him right out and stoned him. That's what the law was on the commandment.

L-37-7 Now, they had two more ways of knowing. (There's always three is a confirmation.) They had another way of knowing, and that was either by a prophet or a dreamer. How many knows that? "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in dreams and speak to him in visions." That's right. Now, he prophesied.
Now, if a man come around and said, "Oh, hallelujah, I got it. I'm prophesying now in the Name of the Lord. I've got the revelation," they didn't let that go like that, like you people do. They examined that by the--God first.

L-38-2 Now, on Aaron's breastplate they had what they called the Urim Thummim. How many ever heard that word? What was it? Was twelve stones, six on each side of the twelve patriarchs: Jasper, Judah, and so forth, on down to twelve stones. And then they took this prophet or a dreamer, and they hung this breastplate up, and they stood him there. And they said, "Now, prophesy and tell your prophecy."
"The Lord spoke to me and said a certain-certain thing." No matter how real it seemed. It might sound like it's just perfectly the truth. But if them lights didn't come together and make a rainbow color across there--the Urim Thummim, them lights conglomerating together, the supernatural working, confirming... See, God's always confirmed His Word. See? And that supernatural light didn't flicker on there, then I don't care how real it seemed, it was wrong.


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