<TITLE>23. Par 175-182</TITLE>L-175 In whom ye also trusted, after that you heard the word of the truth,...
And Who is the Truth? Jesus is the Truth, the Truth of the Gospel. Now, what Gospel? There's only one Gospel. Galatians 1 said, "Though an Angel preach any other Gospel, let him be accursed." This is the Gospel, the Gospel of your salvation, not another; there is not another--not--not another Name given under heaven whereby you must be saved." But in the Name of what? [Congregation says, "The Lord Jesus Christ"--Ed.] Oh, me.
...in whom... after that you believed, you were sealed...
Oh, "After you believed.." How can we just run over that, brethren? Let's just leave it for tonight, what do you say? Oh, my. I--I just can't go any--any farther than that. Let's leave it for tonight. I just can't leave that word "sealed," how you get in that. See?

L-177 Inheritance by predestination. I inherited something. What inheritance? There had to be somebody leave me an inheritance. Why, you say, "Jesus left you an inheritance." Beg your pardon? Jesus never left me an inheritance; Jesus never left you an inheritance; He only came down and paid for your inheritance, brought you to your inheritance. But your name was put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. God give you your inheritance. Your inheritance was first. Jesus only come... A lot... Here's the way they try to make it, "God said, 'Well, there's a lot of people lost; I don't want them... be saved, so I'll send Jesus down and perhaps maybe He'll... somebody feel sorry, and know what I've done and--and get saved.'" Oh, mercy. I wouldn't run my office like that, even as poor as I do run it sometimes then. I wouldn't do it like that. How about God?

L-178 God, by His foreknowledge, seen exactly who would be saved and who wouldn't be saved. He sent Jesus to save those that He had already chosen. Didn't Paul say five verses behind this, that He chose us in Him before there even was a world? That's our inheritance. God chose us, and let Jesus come and pay the price. The what? His shedding of His Blood, that no sin would be accounted to us. Nothing you do. But if you...
"He that sins wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there's no more sacrifice."
Now, and there's where you'll rise up again, say, "How about that, Brother Branham?"
But just remember (See?), "who have received the knowledge of the Truth." They never received the Truth; they just received the knowledge of It. See? It's impossible for those who are once enlightened and made partakers of Holy Ghost, tasted the power of the good Word. Like them borderline believers back there. So many's wrote me letters on that.

L-182 Those borderline believers walked right up there, Joshua and Caleb went right over there. Why? Now, we're going to call that the Holy Ghost, the land out there. Here they are back here. It's up here, say this is the Holy Ghost, and they're back out there. You see? There's where the promise is, is there. Well, they say, "Send out ten spies, one out of each tribe, so that all of us tribes can know what our inheritance is, where we'll be placed over there, where we'll be placed, so I'm going to send out some spies."
They all got over there, "Oh, my. Well, we'll be called holy-rollers!...?... No, no, no, I--I we couldn't do that." See?
Joshua and Caleb said, "I'll see what it looks like." So they come over here and looked over on the...?... My, they reached up there and cut off a big cluster of was their grapes and come back down. Said, "Boy, she's fine," said, "Oh, just fine. Here it is; just taste some of them, they're really good."
"Oh, that's good, but, oh, look at those big... Oh, we couldn't do it. Stand against all them big denominations, all those big things? Oh, it's too bad; we can't do it. No, sir...?... No, sir." And they begin to say, "Oh, let's go back to the fleshpots of Egypt. We might as well have stayed down there. We can't do it; this road's too straight. We... Oh, we can't do this; we can't do that."


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