<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 I had an interview Friday afternoon with a--the Roman Catholic priest from the Irish church in Louisville. And no more than I'd been introduced to him, a fine scholarly man, he said, "Mr. Branham, what denomination are you with?"
I said, "I'm not with any."
And he said, "Then, were you ordained?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Who ordained you?"
I said, "The Lord Jesus gave me the Holy Spirit to preach the Gospel, and gave me a commission."
Well, that's the ordination that we need. Jesus never said to His disciples, "Go out to the..." I'm not criticizing those things, but they've lived their day. He didn't say, "Go, study to be a minister for so many years." He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high." He said that to men who couldn't sign their own name. "And after this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you shall be My witnesses, both in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the utmost parts of the earth." That's the ordination.

L-26 We have no record of Jesus ever going to any school or graduating from any seminaries. Yet there's been more seminaries erected in His Name for religious causes than been for any other--any other thing that's ever been in the world. We never had any--any record of ever going to school. But yet there's been more schools erected in His Name than there is of any other kind of a name there is under the heavens--the schools. We never had note of Him writing a book, yet there's been more books wrote about Him than all the rest of the literature that's been written. And today, His Bible is the most popular Book that there is in all the world amongst all the literature.
But, you see, in the day of the visitation, they cried, "Who is He?"

L-27 See, God takes something that seems like it's nothing to make something out of it. That's what makes Him God.
And when they seen Him come riding into that gate, some of them said, "He's a great Man."
They say that today. Their schools of theology that teaches today that Jesus was a great Man, that He was a good Man. Some of them even say that He was a Prophet. Now, if He was only a Prophet or a good man, we're in our sins. He was more than a prophet. He was more than a good man. Yet He was a good Man. Yet He was a God-prophet. But He was more than that. He was God manifested in the flesh to take away sin.

L-28 And as He come riding in, lots of the people said, "He's a Healer. Oh, we seen Him open the eyes of the blind. We seen Him make the crippled man to walk. We seen Him offer prayer and the fever left a child." But then those type were only following Him for the loaves and the fishes.
And that's the way the crowds are today, many. If there's a healer, why they--they follow him, and he's just a--he's just a oasis. If they get sick, they run to say, "Oh, will you please pray for me that the Lord Jesus will make me well?" And as soon as they come out of the hospital or the sick bed, right back out into the world they go, like a dog to its vomit or a hog to its wallow, as the Scripture says. Just follow him for what good they can get out of Him. They use him just for a--a totem pole, or--or something that--that they can get from Him and don't expect to serve Him. That crowd still goes on today.


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