<TITLE>21. Par 213-228</TITLE>L-213 I say the same thing tonight. You generation of vipers, take for the water. Amen. You know what I'm talking about. These tapes... This is taped, it'll go all over the world. Take for the water if you want to see God's miracles.
John following right along, a fine-looking fellow come up; he said, "Maybe that's Him." He looked. "No, that's not Him. No."
"God gave me a promise."
"John, you say the Messiah's alive today?"
"Yes."
"Where's He at?"
"Here on earth somewhere. I don't know where He is, but I'll know Him when He comes."
"How do you know?"
"God told me what to look for."

L-216 "How do you know you're going to get healed when you're prayed for?" God told me what to look for. "How do you know you're going to receive the Holy Ghost?" I followed His Word. He told me what to look for. I know what's coming next. See? Do you know what's coming next? If you'll obey God's Word, His promise comes next. He can't lie; He's God.
"What's next?"
John said, "I'll see Him when He comes."
They said, "Oh, look at this fellow coming here, that--he's got a crown on his head, that must be the Messiah driving those horses."
Said, "That's not Him."
Walked right up to him, said, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." They knowed there was something wrong there? Walked up to him and told him. That was Herod. You see? And, oh, it made his wife so mad, she hated him as long as she lived. See?

L-219 John kept looking. He said, "Oh, I'll know Him when He comes."
"How do you know?"
"God told me I'd see a sign, and it would be a Messiahic sign. I'll know the Messiah because the Messiah sign will be there."
God knows His Church. He said, "These signs shall follow them." Not "They'll belong to the Methodists, Baptists, or Pentecostals." But, "These signs shall follow them that believe." He knows believers.
Sometime you say today, "Are you a believer?"
"Oh, I'm Methodist." Well, that shows you're not a believer then. See? "I'm Pentecostal." That still shows you're not a believer. When you're a believer, you believe God. Everybody knows it; you are sealed by the Kingdom of God; and a seal's on both sides of the page, both coming and going. See, you can tell them.

L-224 All right. He said, "I'll know Him when He comes, because there'll be a sign. I'll see the Messiahic sign." And one day he looked. Oh, brother. Why? He was looking for It; that's how he recognized It. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] I hope that sinks in. Are you looking for It? Are you watching for something to take place? Then know the Scriptures.

L-226 Now, all them priests standing around there was five times smarter than John. We don't have record where he went to school one day. But there stood priests, that their great-great-great-great-grandfathers were priests. There stood men there that knowed every inch of that scroll, all the prophets and Genesis, and all about it. But, you see, John was looking for a sign, a Messiah. He knowed if that was God, there'd be something supernatural about it. That's right.
So is it today. If you're a Christian, there's something supernatural struck you. If it didn't strike, you're deceived. You still live the same life you once lived, still love the same things you still loved at the first, you still love them, you're deceived (That's right.), not a son or daughter of God.

L-228 Then we find out John was standing there one day, and they say a--reading in the--a--a little story of Him, said that John was on one side of the river; they done backed him up on the other side. That's the way they do a servant of God: back him out of every denomination, every organization, everything else. He didn't have a pulpit to stand in; but he was in mud up to his knees. He didn't have a tuxedo suit on, his collar turned around either. No, sir. He had a piece of sheepskin draped around him, probably looked like a wild man standing out there.


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