<TITLE>14. Par 66-70</TITLE>L-66 But in the orients in Abraham's time, the way they made a covenant was kill an animal and split it open. And the two men, the two making the agreement, stood right in between the covenant in between the animal. And they taken an oath, by God, as they wrote out their contract like that. They tore it. All right, one took one piece and one the other. And they took their vows over this dead animal, that if either broke that vow, may their body be as this broken body of the animal. That's what God was doing. That's what He was making a covenant for.
Then when they come together, when this covenant was fulfilled, each piece of that paper had to dovetail just perfectly together, had to make the exactly the same, had to be the same piece of paper that was tore away.

L-67 Now, here's a covenant with God to the church. He was showing there what He was going to do with Christ. He took Christ to Calvary. And there on Calvary, when the earth turned dark again, the lightning flashed and the thunders roared, God took the body of Christ and tore It apart (the Covenant, Abraham's seed, the great Son of Abraham), and tore It apart, pulled the Spirit out of It, and took It away, sent the Spirit into hell bearing our sins.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... body on the third day, lifted It up and set It on the right hand of God and sent the other piece of the covenant, the Holy Ghost that was in Christ, down on the church. Hallelujah. That's it. That same Spirit that's in Christ has to be in His church. The same Holy Ghost that dwelt in Christ dwells in us. And when the rapture comes, them two pieces has to come together and be the same church that Christ died for.

L-68 All your denominations won't mount to that [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.]. Your little differences and isms, and so forth of baptisms forward, backward, up, every way you want to do it, will mount to nothing. It's the Spirit of the living God that's in the church that gives it the faith that Abraham had, calling those things which were not as though they were, if God said so. There's the covenant that God made: tore Christ apart and took His body and set It on the right side of Him, and sent the other part of Him, the Holy Ghost, down to the earth to baptize the church with the same faith, give them the same faith that He had, the same works that He did. "The same thing that I do shall you do also."

L-69 How can you be blind and not see it? "The works that... A little while and the world will see Me no more (the Spirit speaking from Him), yet ye shall see Me, for I (personal pronoun), I'll be with you, even in you till the end of the world," not just for the apostles, to the end of the world. "The works that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do for I go to My Father." And then the Holy Spirit wasn't only in one Person; it's in the entire church universal doing the same works that Jesus did. Hallelujah.
I challenge the world to believe that. And you'll see a revival break through this country. You'll see Divine healing and the power of Almighty God. He's here now.

L-70 Jesus stood there that day and they brought the apostle Peter to Him. He knowed who he was, told him his name, told him where he was from. Went and done the things that He did.. Looked out upon the audience to a woman who touched His garment, told her of her blood issue and said, "Your faith has saved you. These things that I do, shall you also."
He laid His hands on them which didn't have faith, over His own city where they couldn't believe. He laid His hands on them, and yet they got well. Even in the midst of unbelief, God still promised He would do it. His Spirit lives. He's the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever. That same Spirit...


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