<TITLE>11. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 But when a man has ever come in contact with Christ, and seen Him as Paul did, or experienced Him, there's not enough theologians in the world to ever be able to explain that experience away from a man. That's the reason today they don't have the experience. That's the reason they can't say... They all say, "Who is This? What is This? Where does It come from?" They don't have the answer. Why? Because all they know is their theology that some church has made.
Not to know theology is Life. Not to know the Bible is Life. But to know Him is Life, to know Him as your personal Saviour, as the One Who has filled you with His Presence; you were there when it happened. There's nobody can take It away from you. There's no one can explain it away from you. When that experience happens to you, you know Who He is. To me, He's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-42 Who is This that's performing these miracles? Who is It that's doing these great works? Is--is the preacher? Is it Oral Roberts? Is it Billy Graham? Is it Jack Shuler? William Branham? Whoever it may be, they have nothing to do into it. They're instruments. It's the Holy Spirit coming forth with the Gospel and signs, and wonders, and miracles to make ready a people, and the air's charged with expectation, with believers expecting Him to come. And others are saying, "Why these revivals? Why do we have it? Let's settle down to a church."
Why, it's been said in the church, right here, that when we started to build a new church, said, "We don't need miracles. We don't need these things any more. You want them, go on out on the field where they happen. We don't need them here." When the Branham Tabernacle stoops to that low place, it's sunk. This church is founded upon the principles, and the power, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And as long as this Tabernacle stands, may the glorious Holy Spirit find access to souls to save and fill with the Holy Ghost and heal the sick. To me, It's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-43 Let us pray. If you do not know who He is, you do not know what all this is about, and you would like to know, would you just do so much as raise your hand? And say, by raising your hand, "Pray for me, Brother Branham that I'll know Him." And the Lord bless you. See, all around, I see your hands.
Now, heavenly Father, we bring this message, and the fruits of the people raising their hands, that they would like to know Who This is. They would like to be acquainted with this great Jesus, that His coming of the resurrection is so close, till the sick's beginning to be healed. And after that taken place, then prophecy came into the church, then gifts and miracles. Now, down to that last sign. The next will come the rapture; the church will be taken away. And we, Lord, who have claimed to know You in the power of Your resurrection, we are waiting and longing, and crying, and begging, "Come, Lord Jesus and rapture Your Church, and get It away quickly, Lord."
For soon men are going to blow up the earth that You created for them to live on, because they have disobeyed You. They have not studied peace, but war. They have not studied righteousness, but they've studied mischief. How that they would not all be power hungry... Lord, that little spot in their heart that makes them hunger for power, they're trying to satisfy it in a laboratory somewhere to blow up their fellow man. God, if they could only realize that that power that they long for is the power of the resurrection of the Son of God, the power of the Holy Ghost to change their lives, not blow up nations, but change their lives and make them Your servants.


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