<TITLE>09. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 Our differences has turned Him away, our separation of brotherhood, and the way that we've sent after the things of the world instead of things of God. We ought to have been plumb into Canaan's land, and here we are in the wilderness, wandering around and around again just like they did back there. We should be having all kinds of gifts, signs and wonders in our churches. Instead of that, God can raise up something, and then we all get scared of it and walk away, and say we don't understand these things.
What do you think they done in that wilderness for forty years, walking around and around over the same old grounds? We've took Acts 2 and 4, Acts 2 and 4, Acts 2 and 4; we've run it to death. Let's go on! The promised land is there. "For whatsoever thing you desire, when you pray believe you receive it and you shall have it." Acts 2 and 4 is right, but it ain't all of it. That's right. There's more of it. That's... every promise in the Bible is ours. It's given to us by the Lord Jesus, and His great mighty hand is holding time for us to possess the land that's been given to us. Certainly.

L-38 Conferences. Oh, when the world has a conference and they meet together, what do they do? They usually have some whiskey and cocktails, and drink, and lie, and cheat, and deceive one another, make all kinds of different plans and so forth, and with a knife behind them--as the Bible said they would do.

L-39 But what does happen when God has a conference? Men fast and pray and wait on orders, and then move. We've been talking now about world conference, national conference. There's many of them we could think of, but let's think of some conferences God had. Let's call a few of those to memory.
Let's think of the first conference that God ever had when a first emergency arose. We'll call it the Eden Conference. That was the first emergency, when word came up to heaven that God's son and His daughter--His children that He put into Eden, had lost their place in grace, and had gone away from God, and was backslidden and naked. Heaven couldn't hold Him any longer. He came down to the earth, walking back and forth through the garden, crying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?"

L-40 Man truly expressed what he's made out of right then. Instead of coming out to God and saying, "I'm wrong, Father. I did wrong," he hid hisself and wrapped himself in some fig leaves. That's what man tries to do today. Instead of come out and say he's an unbeliever, he will try to say, "I'm a Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran," or something else. Instead of wrapping hisself up in the righteousness of God, and confessing his sins that he's wrong and a disbeliever, he tries to hide behind some church theology. Get out from behind it, Adam, unbeliever. Notice, that's what he does, though.
And notice, God never sent an Angel down to find His child; He come Hisself. That was the real... The reason I think today... that today when they try in this day of modernistic religion, this day when social religion is dominating the country, creeping into all different denominations... They try to take the divinity off of Jesus Christ and make Him just a man.

L-41 Not long ago I was talking to a woman. She said, "I appreciate your messages, Brother Branham, but you put too much stress on Jesus. You brag too much on Him."
I said, "If I had ten million tongues, I couldn't brag enough on Him." I said, "He's worthy of everything I could brag about."
She said, "Well, there's one thing; you try to make Him divine."
I said, "He was divine."
"Oh," she said, "he was just a man. He was a good man."
They don't believe in His atoning blood. Listen, if that was the blood of a Jew or Gentile, we're all lost. That was the blood of God Himself. He wasn't no Jew nor Gentile: He was God manifested in the flesh. That's exactly.


<A HREF="P10">Next Page</A>