<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 Now, remember, it just isn't because of me; it's the church. See? To me, it's Christ. You say, "Brother Branham, Christ being a Light?" Yes.
Now, we find out, and these well-trained ministers... And you know of a night when I stand in front of men like this who are really trained and smart men to the ministry, and to the Gospel, and to the Bible, and me stand here knowing with a grammar school education, it... if... I have a complex truly. Many men setting there tonight, far beyond able--or more able then I to be here at the platform. But to see them take a seat and set down behind me to pray, it certainly softens my heart.
Now, but just as clergymen, and brothers, and sisters together, we realize that we find that in the wilderness journey according to the 13th chapter, I believe it is of Exodus, the last few verses, "I send My Angel before you to keep you in the way. Fear Him, because My Name is in Him. He will not pardon your transgressions."

L-18 Now, we all know that that Angel was the Pillar of Fire. Is that right? It was the Light, that Pillar of Fire that went before the children of Israel, that led them. Now, we are all aware that that was the Angel of the Covenant (is that right?), which was Christ. Because Christ said the same in Saint John 6 when they was talking. He was talking to the Jews there at the feast and He... They said, "You said you seen Abraham and you're not a Man over fifty years old."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM. I'm the Rock that was in the wilderness." He was the Pillar of Fire. He was the Angel of the Covenant. So He was Christ in the wilderness. We all believe that, do we not? Now, when that Pillar of Fire, a Light...

L-19 And how many knows that God is Light?...?... And when God became flesh and dwelt in the body that He created, which was His only begotten Son... Adam was His son, a creative son, but Jesus was His begotten Son. And God was in Jesus, reconciling the world to Himself. That... We all believe that. Every Christian believes that, that God was in Christ. 'Cause He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works."
Jesus said in Saint John 5:19, "I do nothing... I see the Father doing it first, and whatever the Father shows Me, that I do. And Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto."
Now, we find out that that Light then was made flesh and embodied. Now, He had... Jesus, the Son of God, had the Spirit without measure. Is that right? But we have It by measure. But It's the same Spirit.

L-20 Now, if we notice on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit returned, that Pillar of Fire just separated Itself, and tongues of fire set upon each of them, then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utter... Now, tongues, like licks of fire, set upon each of them. What was it? God, dividing Himself, the Spirit where He had Jesus with It without measure, and now we have It by measure. But It's the same Spirit.
Like if I would go out here to the ocean and get a spoonful of water out of the ocean, well that wouldn't be the ocean, but the same chemicals that's in the spoon is in the entire ocean. What's in the ocean is in here. But this is the same quality but not in quantity. So we, with the Spirit of Christ, become part of Christ. That is true.

L-21 Now, we find out that when Jesus was here He said, "I came from God and I go to God." Is that right? Now, we find that when He died, and was buried, and rose up again by God, setting on the right hand of God, Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to Damascus one day, and he was stricken down by a--a Light; perhaps, the Pillar of Fire, a Light. It hadn't been seen for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. And he was struck down with this Light. And a Voice cried, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
And he said, "Who are You, Lord."


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