<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 But where is that Jesus? Dr. Morse Reedhead, the president of the great Sudan Missions, the greatest in the world, came to me recently. And in the room, he said, "Brother Branham, I have enough degrees, with honorary degrees to plaster your wall." He said, "But where is Christ in any of it? Has the teachers been wrong?"
I said, "I would not wish to say that, sir." I said, "I, as a--a person with a grammar school education, I could not say that those great fine teachers has been wrong. But they've told you truth, but Christ doesn't go by degrees that you get here through theology. Christ is by faith. He's not a myth, He is a Person."
The Holy Spirit is not a thought; It is a Person. "When He, the Holy Ghost, is come..." And He is a personal pronoun, so it--it's absolutely... It--it's a Person of Christ in the form of the Holy Spirit living in you. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches."
Now, the vine does not bear fruit. The branches bears fruit. So therefore, He has to use you and I, our eyes, our lips, our--our hearing, our speech, all... That's Him speaking through us. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches."

L-29 So it would be the association of Christ in His people, if we could see Him acting today like He did then. For it's a promise to His Church. "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will..." Oh, so many thousands of promises could be quoted here. But it's Christ in His Church.
What we have did among all of us (I suppose I'm in a mixed audience, as usual), but what we have did, we have associated Christ with a--an intellectual conception of some historical God. If He's a historical God, what good will He do us today? If He isn't the same God to this generation as He was at the apostolic age... What good would the God of Moses do if He wasn't the same God today? What good would a healing God do that healed the sick back in his day, and if He isn't the same today?

L-30 If I'd question healing, I'd certainly question salvation. Because they're both earnests of our salvation, of our... completely. If we just had the earnest now of our complete redemption... And you can see a shadow of man with a sarcomas cancer, turn back to a new man again and made whole and strong, that's a sign that we will have a glorified body someday. Because only a living God could do such a miracle.
When I can see a woman on the street that's so low, stooped, immorals, or a man out of a barroom, smoking, and drinking, and cursing, and carrying on, and a few days time, he's a sainted godly person, making restitution for all of his wrong, that's--that shows that something has happened to that man. See? It speaks of another land.

L-31 We are citizens, not of Canada, we--neither are we citizens of the United States. Our citizenship is of above. We are citizens of the Kingdom of God.
When I go into Germany, I watch the way they do. They have their own ideas. I come down from one of the greatest meeting, where we was having a average of ten thousand souls saved each night, fifty thousand saved in five nights. And then coming down the street, here was the saints with great big schooners of beer, drinking just as fast as they could drink, praising the Lord as hard as they could. See? Well, they... That's their custom in Germany. See? They don't pay any attention to it. And so forth.
You find different traits in different nations. We find it in Canada, find it in the United States. But then, when a Christian becomes a Christian, he is no more a citizen of this world. For we plainly know that we're Abraham's seed, and he confessed that he was a pilgrim and a stranger. He was a citizen of another world, looking for a city whose Builder and Maker was God.
So we, our citizenship is of above. And above is holiness, and purity, and power, and revelation. Therefore, we are citizens of the Kingdom of God. And as citizens of the Kingdom, let's look for our King.


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