<TITLE>13. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Now, if Jesus was here, tonight, in a visible form, then it would be wrong. If Jesus Christ stood on this pulpit tonight, the Jesus Christ of heaven, stood on this pulpit tonight and claimed to be Jesus Christ, he'd be an antichrist. It's exactly He'd be. For when Jesus comes, the rapture takes place. "As the light cometh from the east even to the west, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. But the Holy Spirit that was in Him, He's here tonight. He's here tonight, in His Church. "Wherever two or three are gathered, I'll be in their midst. The works that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." We've been over it and over it again. And His Presence is here.
And what--what shakes me, friend... (Brother David is setting here.) In South Africa, in Durban, when them blanket natives, thousands of them... There set the Mohammedans by the thousands, all different kinds of religions, and--that you never thought of... I ask Sidney Smith (I think that was the, that's the mayor? Sidney Smith, Durban.) the Mayor of Durban... We was going out. He said, "Brother Branham, Africa has never had anything like this," going out to the ground.
And there was a man with a tag on him, packing an idol. And I said, "What's that tag for?"
Said, "He's a Christian."
And I said, "And packing the idol?"
He said, "He's a Basothu." I believe it is. Basothu, something like... Zulu.
Said, "I can..." said, "I can speak his language. Talk to him. Call him anything you wish to."
And I spoke to him. I said, "What you packing that a--a idol for? Are you believing God?" He believed in, I believe he called Amoya, something like that, the wind, unseen force. He believed in Amoya. But one day, his daddy was packing the idol, and the lion got after him, and he built up a little fire, and--and the --the lion run away; so this idol was god too. Now, that's not Christianity. That's not Christianity. No, sir.
Then I said, "Sir, I'm a hunter myself. The fire run the lion away; the idol had nothing to do with it. It was the fire that scared that--the lion."
"Ahh..." he'd pack it anyhow. So... "for safety." If Amoya, the unseen god failed, this one wouldn't. Now, that's--that's sometimes caused strength of Christianity in many realms. It's too bad.

L-41 But on the day when I gave them the simple story, "If Jesus Christ, that's spoke of in the Bible, if He will come here and do the same thing that He did, if He will perform the same things that He did when He was on earth to prove to the people He was the Messiah...
How'd they know He was Messiah? How'd the Jew know? The real Jew, when they seen Him... Nathanael came to Him. He said, "Behold, an Israelite in who there's no guile."
Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me? You've never seen me in Your life."
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel." That was a real predestinated, elected Jew, to Eternal Life.

L-42 There was some of the priests, standing there, said, "He's Beelzebub, the fortuneteller."
Jesus said, "You speak that against Me, I'll forgive you. But someday, the Holy Ghost will come and do it. One word against it will never be forgiven." That's how He made Hisself known to the people. That's how the woman at Samaria knowed that He was Messiah, for He told her the thoughts that was in her heart; for Moses said the Messiah would be a God-prophet.
Now, if He stood here tonight, wearing this suit that He gave me, He couldn't heal you, because He's already done it. He couldn't forgive your sins, He already done it. Healing and salvation is a finished work, that's already completed when Jesus died at Calvary. "He was wounded for our transgressions. With His stripes we were healed." That's the Gospel, if I know it.


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