<TITLE>28. Par 244-257</TITLE>L-244 And when He said, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ," He didn't mean Father, Son, Holy Ghost. He meant just what He said.
When He said, "You must be born again," He didn't say, "You ought to be."
He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." He never said, "Maybe they will."
He says what He means. And He's God and He can't take it back. He knows what's perfect, so He makes it that way, and that's the way He--he intends it to be, and you have to come up to that, not Him come down to your idea, you got to come up to His idea. That's the difference.

L-248 Now, now, on this system of body, soul... Now, if you'll get the word "soul" and look it up, it'll tell you in the--in the Bible dictionary or Webster, any of them, it is "the nature of the spirit."
Now, here's a man, we'd say, here's John Doe. All right, John Doe, and here's Sam Doe. All right. Now, John Doe is a man, body, he's a brother to Sam Doe. Now, John is a spirit, soul, body; and Sam Doe is the same thing, body, soul, spirit. You see? It's, body, soul, spirit. Now, this man is evil, mean, cheat, steal, lie, commit adultery, any evil thing that he can do; but this man is full of love, peace, joy. They're both got soul, body, and spirit. Well, what's the difference? This man can go back and say, "I remember my mama. I remember things that we done when we was boys"; both of them can. They both got spirits; they both got souls; they both got bodies.
But the nature of this man's spirit is evil; the nature of this man's spirit is good. See? So the nature of the spirit is the soul of man. See? So now, God is trying to get into the what? The spirit and heart of man. Where the spirit lays is in the heart.

L-250 You know, and science said (as I never finished that) that man couldn't think with his heart. And science begins to find out that there's a little compartment in the human heart (not in animal heart, but in the human heart), there's not even a blood cell, nor nothing. They said, "It must be the place where the soul occupies, or the spirit." Just--just let them alone; they'll take their own silly things and prove God. That's right. God just makes the foolish testify of Him.
Now, there it is, big headlines in the paper. Brother Boze's little girl said, "Brother Branham, you know what you was saying the other day?" Said, "Look, look, science has already found out."
I said, "Well, bless God. I want that, sister; I want--I want that."
The soul of man is the nature of the spirit, and the spirit dwells in the heart of man.

L-255 Now, now, what is the outer courts? That's the flesh. See? That's the first thing you come to, the flesh. You've got to consume that first. You've got to pass beyond the flesh. "I--I don't feel like getting up and going to church; the roads are too slick. I--I... It's too hot. Oh, church, I don't know." That's the flesh. All right. Now, you got to consume and walk through that; God has to get through that.
The next time He come, He has to come into the soul; that's the nature. "Oh, what will the Joneses say about me? Oh, my. You know, my church will kick me out if I--if I do something like that." See? But you got to walk through that.

L-257 And when you walk through that, then He goes into the heart and there's where He's throned. That's the Holy Spirit in you. Jesus said, "It'd be far better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and you was drowned in the depths of the sea, than to even offend one of these little ones that believe in Me." Not do them any harm; just even to bring offense to them, just upset them about something. It'd be better that you had your own-self drowned, or had never been borned on the earth, than even to bring an offense to one. Did He mean it? Could He lie? Did the apostles say it? No. Jesus said it. Jesus said, "If you even bring an offense to one of them, these little ones that believe in Me."


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