<TITLE>13. Par -</TITLE>L-19-5 Christmas is not mentioned in the entire book of the Bibles. Never one time did Jesus refer them to His birth, but to His death. Not one time did Jesus ever say, "Join a church." Not one time did He ever say, "Recite a creed." But He said, "Come unto Me." And He said, "He that does come, the works that I do will follow him just as it is Me. For if I don't do the works of the Father, believe Me not; 'cause the Word said when the Messiah come these things would take place: 'He'll be a prophet. Yes, He'd be a prophet; He'd be a seer like Moses was. The lame would leap like a hart; the blind would see; the deaf would hear; and the dumb would speak. He would show forth in Him how He could perform the signs of the Messiah.' Now, if the signs of the Messiah doesn't vindicate My ministry," He said, "then don't believe Me. But here's the way you interpret the Word," He said; "if I don't have these signs, then don't believe it. But if I produce the signs and you can't believe Me interpreting the Word, believe the signs, for they speak of the Word." That's the real interpretation of It. That's it. That's the Message.

L-20-1 You don't have to take nobody's word. You don't have to join any church. You can't join a Church. You can join these organizations, but the Church of God, you're born into It from Calvary. You say, "Bless God, I am too, Brother Branham." Then the works that Jesus did, you'll do also. It's what Jesus said (See?): "Works that I do..." What? He said, "The works that I do testify of Me." Hallelujah. "The works that I do, they give witness." Don't you see? In other words, "The signs of the Messiah, can't you see what the Messiah was to do? And you don't believe I got the right interpretation of the Word, then why is My Father backing It up? You think I'm too hard on your organizations?" He said. "If you think I'm too--too radical, and you say, 'I'm a madman; I've got a devil; I've lost My mind...'" They told Jesus He was mad. "Mad" means "crazy."
"You're crazy. You don't belong to our groups, and you're out here like a madman. You've lost your mind."

L-20-3 Then Jesus could say to them this: "Then if you are of God, where is the signs of God. If you believed in Moses, where is the signs of Moses with you? If you believed in the prophets, where is the sign of the prophets with you? So if you can't believe I've got the right interpretation, believe the signs, for they testify that I'm right." Hallelujah. "They are the ones that testify of Me. They give record whether I'm right or not. All the Father has given Me will follow it and come to it. And no man will be able to come unless the Fathers's called them." Right.
Yet He had done so many works, the Bible said, yet they could not believe Him, because Isaiah said, "They got ears and can't hear, eyes and can't see." They're blind as a bat. Yet they can't see it, because the prophets said they couldn't.

L-21-1 Now, same thing is today as it was then. Yeah, it said, "if you can't... I do the works. It's not Me that's do--speaking the Word; it's not Me that doeth the works, otherwise; it's My Father. And if you know what God was... God was the Creator. God was the One that was upon Moses, and God in Moses foretold My day. God was in the Old Testament," He said, so much as to say, "The One that was upon the prophets told you that that Chief Prophet would come someday and to Him the children would be gathered. If you can't believe what I'm interpreting the Word to you, then believe the signs, for they speak of Me."


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