<TITLE>11. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 But today, it's just, "Join the church." See, it's an uncertain sound. "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God..." that's II Timothy 3--II Timothy 3 and 7, "ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." See? Ever learning, ever learning... Brother, we got seminaries, and schools, and Ph.D.'s, and Dh.D.'s, and D.D.D.'s, and Q.S.T.'s, and all kinds of everything, "ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." That's right. Got a doctor's degree, and we send our child away and to--to seminary somewhere, get him a great big degree or something other like that. And he come out and--and--he'd--he--he... Still there's something wrong.
You can't... What we need today (and let me straighten my statement), today, preaching... A minister, a gospel preacher, is not a man so much could be... He could still have this and be a preacher, but we relying upon a--a degree that we got, how we got a Bachelor of Art. And how we took Bible and learned this.

L-46 The devil knows more about the Bible than you'll ever know. I'd tell you that now. He knows all about... The one... Some of the best Bible students I ever met, was infidels. They just study it day and night (That's right.), to fuss with you about it. It--it... The Bible isn't to be fussed about; the Bible is to be lived. See, if you put that seed into infertile ground, it won't live. But if you put it in the fertile ground it'll live.
Did you read here, not long ago, how they went and got some of that wheat out of the garner in Egypt, that was put in there by Joseph, got sunflower seed, four thousand years old--sunflower seed, four thousand years old, planted it in the ground, it brought forth a sunflower. Amen. Wheat brought forth wheat. Why? It was germitized. That germ doesn't die. See, it's in there.

L-47 And no matter where they put you, if you're borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, you might not be a--a--a even a--enough ashes to hold on your little fingernail, but you'll come forth again at the resurrection, because you got life. You've been endued with power, and--from on high, and there's life in you. There's a sound taken place, a sound, a certain sound that you knowed what happened. You'd died and was borned again. You become a new creature.
Uncertain sounds... Uncertain sound of the jobs, uncertainty in national affairs, uncertainty in politics, uncertainty in home... Then you might say to me, "Brother Branham, you're saying everything's uncertain. Isn't there anything that is certain?" Yes, there's one thing that's certain [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... It's eternally true. It's eternally certain. Oh, you can never get away from it, it's a chapter, Jesus said, a 35th verse, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not pass away." Then it's eternal certain.
Now, see, we can't no more put confidence in national affairs, and jobs, or in politics, and--and our denominations and so forth. But there's one thing that is certain: that is, God's Word and God's Promise. When God says anything, that settles it forever.

L-48 Here some time ago, they tried to say that--that God made so many mistakes. You know they said that when David played on his harp... Science, absolutely tried to prove that there was no such a thing as a harp in the days of David; they didn't have no harps. But finally, they dug up some evidence that there was harps.
Said when Abraham took his camels and went down into Gerar, they said that there never was no camels down in there. But here, just recently, they dug up some bones and found there was camels down there. See? So...


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