<TITLE>15. Par 117-127</TITLE>L-117 Now, up on Mount Carmel that day when he called the showdown, and he called Ahab and the thousands of priests that belonged to the temple of their denominations; he called them up on Mount Carmel, said, "Come up here. Meet me up here. I'll stand the whole bunch." What did he do? He had THUS SAITH THE LORD. He wasn't afraid. He said, "Offer up a bullock and call on Baalim. Let the God that answers by fire be God."
So all day until from morning till after dinner, they jumped up on the altar; they lanced themselves; they screamed; they hollered. Elijah walked back and forth, said, "Holler a little louder, maybe he's gone on a fishing trip or something. He's out pursuing or something," for he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. He was satisfied; he had the Word of God. And, brother, sister, what more does any man need than a promise of God. God said He would do it. As Abraham, he counted God able to perform what He'd spoke about. He knowed that God could do it, because God said so.

L-119 So he--so he called for them to come up there, and so they lanced themselves and hollered and screamed all day up till the evening sacrifice, then Elijah... Watch how he did it. The first thing he done was roll twelve stones together. God is not divided. Denominations divide the churches, but not God.
One said, "Are you a Christian?"
"I'm a Baptist." Well, that's no more than saying he's a pig.
Say, "I--I'm a Methodist." Well, that's no more than a pig again to God.
I say, "Are you a Christian?" To be a Christian you must be Christ-like, tabernacling deity in you, with the Holy Ghost like fell on the day of Pentecost. Not some emotion, but I mean a real Pentecost. See? That's right.
"I'm Pentecostal"; "I'm oneness"; "I'm--I'm trinity"; "I'm..." Oh, my, that's no more than saying you was something else. Don't mean a thing to God. That divides. That's what had happened down there amongst them clergymen. But Elijah rolled these twelve stones together to show that God's one God over all of them, rolled them up together.

L-125 So when he got them together like that, he killed the bullock and laid it upon top the altar on the wood. He said, "Now, to be sure there's no faking in this, go get me twelve barrels of water." And he actually water-soaked that wood. Oh, hallelujah. He wanted to show that God was God. Because why? He had THUS SAITH THE LORD. He was a prophet. He had the Word of God.
So that at that day if they say they'll turn you out of the church, they'll do this, the other, if you're baptized in the Name of Jesus, and all these different things like that... Nonsense. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-127 Lovely person the other night talked to me, come put their arms around me, said, "Brother Branham," said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "If you'll just compromise a little of this stuff that you're talking about..."
I said, "What?"
Said, "All this baptism." Said, "The churches of Chicago and all around just want you so bad, but they're afraid you'll mention that."
I said, "Sure, I'll mention it. Certainly, I'll mention it."
"They say... Well, that's the only thing they got against you."
I said, "Then they not got against me; I wasn't the one that said it. God said it." I challenge any of them to come prove that it's wrong." See?
Said, "Well, you see, you--you ought to agree and make fellowship." That's the same thing they wanted him to do, Ahab. God don't compromise. See? He doesn't compromise.
He said... He said, "Now, Brother Branham, I want to ask you something. Did the Angel of the Lord..." Said, "We all believe the Angel of the Lord. Did the Angel of the Lord tell you this?"
And I said, "I don't care what the Angel of the Lord would say. If it an Angel of the Lord, He'll say that. But if He said something contrary, He wasn't the Angel of the Lord." I said, "Regardless of what Angel or anything else said, Paul said, 'Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you, let him be accursed.'"


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