<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 So many times getting in the meetings, coming to meetings, letters come to me, "What's your doctrine, Brother Branham? You was a Baptist, do you still believe in eternal security? Are you Jesus only? Have you... Do you baptize at all? Do you sprinkle?"
I'll say this: I have one doctrine, the great fundamental evangelical doctrine of the Bible. I've never left a meeting to my knowing with any confusion. I've always tried to leave the meeting with sweetness of the Holy Spirit. Never tried to make... proselyte, I never try to take someone's disciples. The thing I try to do is add the sinner to any church that he wants to go to. As long as he's borned again of the Spirit of God, he's my brother and she's my sister.
And the doctrines... I have my own ideas, but I keep them to myself.

L-11 And then when I come here, or anywhere else... What if I take sides one way or the other, it would be... I would be throwing all the influence that the Lord has given me to one certain denomination. Therefore, I don't take sides with any of them. I stay on sides with all of them, and try to pull them together, and say, "We are brethren. We are brethren." And that's the reason that I don't take sides or--or take issues.
All of us, we fundamental people, we absolutely believe in the great evangelical doctrines. We believe that there is a Saviour Who saves; there is a Christ Who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. We do believe in Divine healing; we believe in the second coming. There's the things that I preach on, is that. Let the rest of it... That's up to the pastors, the shepherds to lead the flock the way that he sees to do it. I'm an evangelist.

L-12 Now, we are fixing to open the Word--or read the Word. Only One is able to open the Word, and that's "He that was slain from the foundation of the world, Who came to Him that set upon a throne, and taken the Book out of His right-hand, and was worthy to open the Book and to loose the seals thereof."
So let us bow our heads for a moment of prayer, while we speak to Him. How many would like to be remembered tonight, that God will give you faith to be healed tonight, raise your hand, say, "Remember, Brother Branham. God, I'm raising my hand." That's good.

L-13 Lord, Thou art God since the beginning. And You never had a beginning, for You are the eternal One. You never did begin, or You never will end. When the sin has heaped itself in the earth until the stars refuse to shine, and that the seas has wept themselves into deserts, You'll still be God.
And we approach Thee tonight in that all sufficient Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy loving Son, Who came and took our place willingly, and become a propitiation for our sins. And tonight, we feel that we are washed by the water of the Word and are cleansed, and candidates for the Holy Spirit and His Divine works.
And we come tonight with open hearts to receive Him, knowing that we are living in the closing days of the world's history, knowing that at any minute Jesus could come. And we see the earth in the turmoil: nations against nations. And now, there's a division amongst churches; there's a division amongst peoples and individuals. But the house of God should be united as one. "Onward Christian Soldiers," said the poet. "We are not divided, all one Body we."


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