<TITLE>12. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Just before we go to prayer, while I leave this solemn warning in your heart... Is it with you like it was at the beginning? The church that you're in, is it only a creed or denomination, or is it an experience that brings to you that like it did at the beginning? If it isn't, then it isn't so. Won't you come to the beginning then, and start from here, and get away from creeds and denominations, and serve the living God?
If you are here tonight and would desire to be remembered in the closing prayer, would you raise your hands to God and say, "Remember me, Brother Branham"? God bless you through the building. That's good. That's fine. No matter what church you belong to, your denomination, raise your hands, say, "Be merciful, God, to me." God bless you. That's fine, dozens of hands up all over the building. "Remember me in prayer, Brother, at this hour," you say, "because I want to go back to the beginning." God bless you. God bless you, you, you down there, back in the hall, out on the outside, the Lord bless you. God sees your hands: too numerous for me to count. He knows everyone. Way back, that lady trying to raise her hands way high back there, God bless you, sister.

L-52 Jesus said, "You teach for doctrine the traditions of men, and you make the commandments of God of non effect with your traditions." If He said it in that day, what about this? Let's go back to the beginning now. What add... What about it? If the branch come forth on the day of Pentecost and brought forth a church of that type... They went to all the world. Signs and wonders followed them everywhere, not signs and wonders that we call today. But the day when they went forth, they preached everywhere; they baptized the people over again in the Name of the Lord Jesus. They--they cast out devils; they heal the sick; they had the victory from the beginning to the end.

L-53 And if your church tradition has taught you contrary to that, let's go back to the beginning where we left it. And let's produce here tonight a members of the church like the beginning, who had brotherly love, one for another, lay down their lives for one another. Men and women who love one another, such Divine love till they go to penitentiary or to the gallows for each other, that's the original church. The Lord bless you while we pray.

L-54 Dear heavenly Father, as we come to the closing of this little message tonight, and the people standing around the walls waiting, leaning upon the pilasters, and along the walls, and even on the outside... And they raised their hands that they wanted to meet that Jesus of the beginning. Grant, Lord, that this very hour they meet Him.
For it's written, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Great number of hands, Father, so many of them I could not count them at once. But Thou seest them all and knows them all. And it's written, "That no man can come to Me except My father draws him."
They've had enough of these creeds, and they realize that they don't find Jesus in them. Like Mary and Joseph they have to go back to the beginning where they left Him. They wish to go back tonight to an experience of Pentecost and receive the Holy Spirit, and there be borned anew into the Kingdom of God. Grant, Lord, that each of them will receive that experience this very hour. For we ask it in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son.


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