<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Say, I got a note today, said, "Could you prove that the Assemblies of God started in--in--in Genesis?" I don't know about the organization, but the spirit that's in the Assemblies of God started in Genesis. That's exactly right. And all the other borned again churches started in Genesis and all the supposed to be churches, just nominal churches, they started in Genesis. And they both was represented in the first two sons, both Cain and Abel. Cain received the mark of the beast and was sent away. We realize that the serpent, which was the one who had deceived his--his mother, was a beast and not a reptile. He was the most subtil of all the beast of the field. And Genesis 14, or Genesis 4:15, rather, that God sent--marked Cain. And as soon as Cain was marked, he went out of the Presence of the Lord. Did you get it last night now? Did you read it? As soon as the mark came he went out of the Presence of the Lord and took him a wife from the land of Nod. Now, you get it? See how that is? The church... Now, God...

L-16 Cain was just like a--the ordinary man. He come up. He was just like Esau and Jacob; we could pattern them there again. And all through the Bible we see that spirit moving up, coming up, coming up, and finally it's coming to a head right here in this age that we're living in now, I believe. Now, if you'll notice, Cain was a man, a natural man of the world like Esau. And--and he was religiously inclined. So he knowed there was a God; he believed it. And he went up...
Now, see, that's where I different with the churches that say, "The only thing you can do is just believe and God recognizes that as righteousness." Well, that--that is true in one sense of the word; it's part of the truth but not all the truth. Fine Baptist brother came to me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, what could Abraham do any more then believe? Abraham believed and it was imputed unto him for righteousness."
I said, "That's right. But God give him a sign, the seal of circumcision that He'd recognized his belief."

L-17 Now, the Holy Spirit is the Seal of God. Now, if you say you believe and haven't received the Holy Ghost, then God's never recognized your faith yet. That's right. Because the Seal is the recognition that God has completed and finished His work in you (That's right.), that He recognized, sure. Someone said, "Why do you make it so loose, Brother Branham, saying, Saint John 5:24?" That's the beginning of the Spirit. That's right. I believe that a man, as soon as you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, it's a portion of the Holy Spirit. When you're sanctified, another part of the Holy Spirit cleans you. Then you're filled with the Holy Ghost. Right. Now, "But he that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life." There's only one type of it; that's God's life.

L-18 Now, we notice that Cain, he made an altar, and he put sacrifice on it. He got down and confessed his faith in God, and worshipped God. In other words, just like the religious man today. Ninety-nine out of a hundred almost, they say, "Here it is." "It's the best I can do," Cain said. "This is... I--I--I built an altar. I belong here at the church. I made a sacrifice. This is the best I can do; take it or leave it. There it is." That's just the--that's the attitude of people today. "I go to church, I help them do everything. We built a nice building. We've done all this, and we done all that, and everything. I put into the widows' fund, and I do all this. There it is, the best I can do, take it or leave it." But God will leave it. He left it there for Cain; He will leave it there for you. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." There's only one provided way for God, that's down the bloodstream to the Holy Spirit. Without that, you're done, you're finished. You'll never go in.


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