<TITLE>17. Par 122-130</TITLE>L-122 And I said, "What if I tell you that your blessed virgin that you look to as a goddess, what if I tell you that God wouldn't let her come to heaven until she acted like them people did last night?"
She said, "That's not right."
I said, "Did you tell me the Catholic church wrote the Bible, the apostles, and you said they were Catholic?" I defy that. There wasn't no Catholic church for three hundred years after the death of the last apostle, till after the Nicene Council. Show me page of history, anything you want to; not your catechism, 'cause it don't compare with history. There never was such a thing. But I said that, "Mary..." The Bible said that, "Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the rest of the women, with the hundred and twenty, all had to climb those steps to the upper room, and be filled with the Holy Ghost till they staggered like they were drunk, speaking in tongues and acting like a bunch of drunkards." That's what the Bible said. I put my finger on the verse, and I said, "Read It."
She said, "I don't want to read it. I'm not suppose to read it."

L-124 I said, "You're not honest. Here's where virgin Mary received the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues and staggered like a drunk woman. Now, if you go to heaven, you can't go with her, 'cause she had to receive the Holy Ghost. And if she had to do that, being the mother of Jesus Christ, how much more do you require it."
She said, "If I had to go to heaven with anything like that, I wouldn't want to be in heaven."
I said, "You don't have much to worry about. I don't think you're going anyhow, I'll tell you...?... I don't think you have much to be bothered about." That's exactly God's Spirit.

L-127 "Now, you're a witness of Me after the Holy Ghost is come upon you." Now, what is this now, what are we saying? What Is It? Who Set It Up? And What Is Its Message? Now, to hurry up to get just a little farther along.
The fourth thing, How Do We Become A Member Of It? "How do we join it? We see what it is; now what--how do we join this church?" You don't join it. You can't join it. There's no way of joining it. You're borned into it. I've been with the Branham family fifty-one years and never did join the family. I was borned a Branham. And you're borned a son of God or a daughter of God.

L-129 Let us take John the 3rd chapter, just a moment, and just see what God said here about it. How do you get into this church? What's the proposition God offers you? John the 3rd chapter, 1 to 8.
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know... thou art a teacher come from God:... no man can do the miracles which thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him... verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,... verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

L-130 How do you get into it? Born into it. Let's read the question further.
Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he's old?... (See that carnal? a teacher, a great man, a priest, aged, read the Bible all of his life.)... can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? (Now, isn't that like some of these intellectual teachers you hear today?)
Jesus answered and said unto him,... verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water... (How do we get into it?)... of water and of... Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.


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