<TITLE>09. Par 62-66</TITLE>L-62 "Well, I better walk carefully today; I might backslide and be lost tomorrow." You wasn't saved at the beginning. You might be worked up under the emotions. You might just think you're saved. You might feel like you're saved. You might believe that you're saved. You might join the church. You might be a good Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal; that don't have one thing to do with it. If your name's ever--if you are ever saved, you were saved before the world ever began, when God sent Jesus in His mind to save that one who He saw was savable... Now, He's not willing that any should perish. He's not willing, but if He's God, He knowed who would and who would not. The Scripture says so. So there you are.

L-63 That's why we different with the Baptist, the Methodists, and the so-called Calvinistic thinking people. But Calvinism's right.
Then we're going to come over on the Arminian side. What did they get? Works: that's the holiness groups. Works... "Bless God, I'll let my hair grow out," the women, and, "Oh, praise God, I won't even wear a short-sleeved shirt," the men will and so forth like that. That has nothing to do with the Kingdom. No, sir. You can let your hair grow long; you can wear dresses whatever you want to; or you can do this, that, or the other, and it won't have nothing at all to do with it. You're not saved because of your clothes. If so, God would just have made some patterns of such. Jesus wouldn't have had to die. You're saved because that God saved you by grace. And you do these things just in appreciation. Common decency will tell you that. You do those things in appreciation.
Works is what I do for God. If I never preach another sermon and live here a hundred and fifty years, I'm still saved. Sure. I'm not saved because I'm a preacher. I'm saved because it's the grace of God that saved me. There wasn't one thing I could do to merit it.

L-66 I'm sued at the law right now for a half a million dollars. And they said, "Why, you went out... That money that you taken up out there to pay your bills, it was yours before you paid your bills. You passed it through your church, but it was yours first."
I said, "But I never done one thing for it."
Said, "Yes, you did," said, "you told them you'd take up a love offering."
I said, "I want someone to tell me when it was."
"Well, you solicit through the mail."
I said, "Search my office: not a penny."
You know, the Bible said, "Don't take no thought what you shall say, for it'll be given to you in that hour." And setting there by those federal attorneys and each one busting again to me from one side to the other, and me hardly know my abc's and with those smart men who's trained to make you say things that you really don't mean to say it... Now, how can you match wits with someone like that? He can never match the wits with my Master though. The Scripture said, "Don't you take no thought when you're brought before kings and rulers."
I know the money that I've taken up there, I've spent it for... And they didn't dispute that. It had been spent just as legitimately as it could be, but they said, "It was yours first and then you turned it to the Branham Tabernacle."
I said, "But I am the treasurer of the Branham Tabernacle." And this... Well, they said, "I don't know about that. Then why didn't the trustees to do this, that, and the other?"
One... I said, "And then you call me dishonest."
Said, "We think you're very honest." Said, "I want to show you something, Mr. Branham," that attorney. I'm just saying this for the glory of God now only and especially for the young. He said... I want to show you something to show you how if you live by the Bible, God will live by you. And if your spirit disagrees with what God said, then you're not living by the Bible.


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