<TITLE>07. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Said, "I rushed into my mother. And she being a good Christian mother, picked me up in her arms and loved me and begin to tell me about Jesus, and it was Him that was calling me." And said, "She being loyal to her church, she started me at the age of seven to learning about Jesus." But said, "With that in my heart I went to every school that I knowed how to go to." And said, "Finally I got my Bachelor of Art. I thought when I received my degree, that surely Christ would be standing right there." And said, "When the Bachelor of Arts degree was placed upon me," he said, "I didn't... And nothing was no different." He said, "When I got my Doctor's degree, I thought He would be there." And said, "It was no different. Just a bunch of men come around and said a few things and give me the degree." And he said, "Brother Branham, I've got enough degrees to plaster your wall. But where is Christ?" That's it.

L-32 He said, "Has the teachers been wrong?"
I said, "Brother Reedhead, I wouldn't want to say that the teachers has been wrong, for I'm not in position to say that. But let me say this: Christ doesn't come by Bachelor of Art or Doctor of Divinity, but He comes through the renewing of your spirit by the Holy Ghost that comes from heaven."
He said, "Do you think that would be for me?"
I said, "According to this blessed old Bible, it's for whosoever will let him come."
He said, "I've been taught that that was for a day gone by."
I said, "Then the teacher that taught you that was wrong."
Said, "How do you know they were wrong?"
I said, "I have received it. And the Bible promised it. Out.. Here's where He promised it. Now tell me and show me where He ever taken that promise back. He gave the church the power to do it. Now, where did He ever take it back at? If the church tells you that those things are passed, then they're teaching for doctrine the commandments of men and not of God. They're taking the commandments of God, and making them of non effect by their traditions." That's right.

L-33 You can't find Him among your kindred. You can't find Him if you go and say, "I'll be a Methodist awhile and see what happens. I'll be a Baptist awhile and see what happens." You'll never find Him there or in no other church of denomination. But any church that you wish to enter, not the denomination, but enter into the fellowship, not altogether of the church, but the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, then you found Him.
There'll be a settled faith if you're Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, whatever you may be, if you find Jesus as your own personal Saviour. Not through the shaking hands with the preacher or the doctrines of a creed, but through the finding of the Lord Jesus.

L-34 In the churches today making their creeds thus. They're robbing God. They're taking their doctrines and making the commandments of God of non effect. It doesn't have the effect upon the people. Why? Because our man-made theology, our doctrines, and our creeds have shut the blessings off from the people, and they don't have the opportunity to receive it. They no nothing about it. They just know that they belong to church. And that's why we have not fellowship, the churches one with another. That's why that they have a revival, and the other churches won't cooperate with them, a certain denomination, because they say, "It's not my faith."
There's only one faith; the Bible said so. Not faith in a creed, not faith in a denomination, but faith in God, that's the only faith that there is. One faith, one Lord, and one baptism, the Scriptures says so.


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