<TITLE>06. Par 33-38</TITLE>L-33 Circumcision could only be in the male. But if the woman was married to a man, she was part of him; she was circumcised with him. You remember in Timothy where it said, "Never... Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and holiness with all sobriety."
Now, circumcision... You know when the--Sarah laughed in the tent behind her at the message of the Angel when He said, "Abraham (not knowing who He was, a Stranger), where is thy wife, Sarah?"... How did He know that he had a wife?
As Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man," remember, those signs wasn't committed down to Sodom and Gomorrah, in the world amongst the religionist, but it was to the elect, the called out. And Abraham was called out. And the word "church" means "called out, the separated," like Abraham separated himself and had been circumcised. And then when Sarah laughed at the very message of the Angel, God would've killed her on the spot; but He could not bother Sarah without bothering Abraham, because they were one. She was part of him. You're no longer twain but one.

L-36 So circumcision, the Holy Spirit today circumcises the heart; and it's a sign, a given sign. Someone said the other day... I just repeat this, not as a joke, because it's the truth; but it sounds like a joke. As I've often said, "This is no place for jokes." But there was a little German out on the west coast where we were just at. He received the Holy Ghost, and he went down the street; and he would walk a little piece, and he'd raise up his hands and speak in tongues; and he would run, and he would jump, and he would shout. And he was at work carrying on like that, and his boss said to him, "Where have you been?" (I--I like those places where you have been.) He said, "You must've been down amongst that bunch of nuts."
He said, "Then you think they are nuts?"
He said, "Sure they are."
He said, "Well, praise the Lord for the nuts." And he said, "Do you know what? The nuts play a big part," he said; "for instance, the automobile. You take all the nuts out of it you ain't got nothing but a bunch of 'yunk.'" So that's just about right.

L-38 You are so different when the Holy Spirit comes on you, until the mind of this world don't like you, and they're against you, and they don't want nothing to do with you at all. You're borned of another world; you are just as much an alien as--ten times more alien than you'd be if you'd go in the farest flung regions of African jungles. You're different when the Holy Spirit comes. And It's a Sign. It's a Mark amongst the people.
Now, you say then, "Brother Branham, that sign of circumcision was given to Abraham (that is true) and to his seed." Yes. All right.


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