<TITLE>11. Par 86-95</TITLE>L-86 Some kind of a little old cankerworm has come in and eaten that faith off. They stand up and say, "I believe in the holy church. The holy Roman Catholic church, I believe in..."
I believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I believe He's the same yesterday, today and forever, and the faith and the power of His resurrection lives within me today. Because He lives, I live also, not because of a creed, not because of a denomination; but because Christ lives. And I'm in Christ. I live by Him, and with Him, and I live through Him, and His Life fibers Itself through me. If it don't, then I can't call myself His. He just don't take my head; He takes my heart, my movements, my everything, and weaves Hisself into it.
He weaves Hisself into the Word. The Word can't say one thing in one place and something else this other place. And I know It's written like that. It's written that way for a purpose. Jesus said so, and thanked God that He--he'd hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. That's God's purpose in doing so. He had...

L-89 Why did He ever let a sinner come? He had to let a sinner come for the purpose of Him being a Saviour. He's greater than a sin. He... Wouldn't had to be a sin, He wouldn't had to let Satan make the first sin. But the reason Satan created the first sin, or perverted the righteousness to sin, the reason he did it, so God could be a Saviour. He let the man get sick, because He's a Healer. And He has to be just, and He has to put the Tree of Life and the tree of death before every man like He did Adam and Eve, or He did wrong when He put it before Adam and Eve. Now, it's up to you.

L-90 Now, notice, faith, the true faith, the real faith, the faith... Now, we take our churches today. Look at us; look at our Pentecostal people; look at our Baptist people, our Presbyterian, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, and the Branham Tabernacle, all of us; we're guilty of not earnestly contending for that faith.
A little fuss can come up in the church in the Branham Tabernacle (I'm at home, I can talk about you now.), and they'll form a little clique, and one get on one side and one on the other. Is that contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints? Does that sound like the apostolic doctrine? No, sir, brother. They had an Ananias and Sapphira case. God's still the same God. And we seen that proven.

L-92 No earnestly contending, the people go out today and say, "Well, my faith don't teach the miracles. They teach that the days of miracles is past." Then you're not contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... bunch of fanaticism, myself, but I believe that there's a real genuine gift of the Holy Ghost. And we earnestly contend for That. That's right. We believe It. Saints speak with tongues.
They say, "I don't believe in Divine healing." I don't believe in a bunch of fanaticism. But we do believe there is a God, that He heals the sick, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-95 I've seen a lots called discernment, I don't believe in. But I know there's truly a discerning Spirit of God, the gift of knowledge, that calls and speaks, and it's perfect every time. We're earnestly contending for that, that faith that was once delivered to the saints.
I know there's dreams, and stomach-fulls of--of fresh meats, or are full of something another that cause you to have nightmares, and you jump up and call it a vision. But there's a real genuine vision of God. That's right. God promised it. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever... He does that, and it never fails. The Bible said, "If there be one among you who's spiritual, or a prophet, and let him speak, and what he says, if it comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him; if it don't, don't hear him, 'cause he's a false prophet." God can't lie. God tells the truth all the time. Let it be so. Now, we find that that's true. There's those things that...


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