<TITLE>16. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 Let's come on down, Saint Patrick. You Catholic people that call him a Catholic, I wish you'd produce the history for it. He wasn't a Catholic; he protested the Bishop at Rome. That's exactly right. His school's up in Northern Ireland. He didn't believe in that one man control. He believed in the Holy Ghost controlling. Yes, sir. He also believed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and speaking in tongues, and--and the power of the Spirit. Saint A--Saint... What was I trying to say? Columba did the same thing. Saint Martin did the same thing, Irenaeus, the same thing. They all believed in the power of God, in Divine healing, and the power of the Holy Ghost. All of them early saints...
Then they had a bunch of bishops that was starchy and wanted to make a organization, and they organized the church, and conglomerated sin and some church superstitions together and made their organization. From that come the mother organization. From that come every one of the rest of them right out of it. Read Revelations 17 and see if it ain't: the mother whore and her daughters were harlots. What is a harlot but a whore, same thing. What makes that? Committing spiritual fornications against the true Father, the true Husband, taking man-made doctrines and creeds, taking the people, getting formal, bringing them into an old formal worship. We worship God in Spirit and in Truth, God seeks such to do so. Yes. Sure it is.

L-46 Now, we find out that Abraham, Abraham stayed out there; he was elected, a called out church. And remember, the Man that was in human flesh, the Man eat the flesh of a calf. He drank the milk from the cow. He drank his bread and had but--eat bread and had butter on it, drinking the milk from the cow. And Abraham called Him God. Look--take... Look at the translators, run it down, find out if that's right: Elohim, God. Now, I want you to notice, it was representing something, something that we want to let you positive see it.
Now, notice, then we find out that when the two men went down, the preachers went down to preach, two Angels went down to preach in Sodom... They never done this, this thing, this sign that they went down there and showed their sign, that they come to bring them out. But it wasn't the same sign the elected church got. The elected church got another sign. And now, notice what the church out there got, the One that stayed behind with the elected church. You remember when He was talking? He said, "Abraham..." Called him by his new name that God had just give him. "Abraham, where is Sarah (S-a-r-r-a-h, her new name)?" Why, He was the One that give it to them. Yeah.

L-47 Someone said, I've made this statement many times, said, "Brother Branham, you don't believe that man was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was God." See? He did. He's the Creator. He could do anything He wants to. He just picked up some petroleum, and cosmic light, and calcium, and potash, and [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] blowed into it, and stepped into the body and come down. That's exactly the way He did it. He had Angels there the same way. He can do the same thing. Where did we come from? Who made the earth? Where did He get the stuff to make the earth out of? Tell me where He went out and got it at. The very earth that we're setting on is the Word of God made manifest. This pulpit is the Word of God. This is the Word of God made manifest. God spoke it, and He's a Creator, and He made it out of things that--not was here to make it with. He created it. Got a purpose, He can create. He can do whatever He wants to; He's God.


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