<TITLE>16. Par 65-69</TITLE>L-65 That's what people don't do--they do today. They say, "I belong to this church. I joined over here. That's as good as any of them."
Well, brother, if we're not on the Word, and the Word's not in us, we're just presuming we're all right. You remember when the floods came, only the God-constructed boat floated. They presumed they'd be all right. But presuming you're all right and being all right is different. See?
You say, "Brother Branham, you're kind of tying us out here on a limb somewhere, aren't you?"
No. I just want to show you--put something before you. See? Then we'll come to the rescue just in a minute. Yes.
You say, "Why, Noah..." Somebody'd say, "Why, here. I got... I know John Doe down here on the corner. Why, he's got a boat that we can ride any stream with."
But you see, it wasn't God-constructed. It wasn't put up with the shittim wood, and--and--and the way God constructed it.

L-66 You say, "I got a church, Brother Branham. Oh, we--we belong to the biggest denomination in this city. We--we're the biggest church there is around here, and we got the best dressed group of people. The mayor comes to our church, and the officials comes to our church. Why, we... All this we got." See?
But unless that is constructed by God, it won't stand. No denomination, unless it's destruct--constructed by God's construction here, that it will not stand. See? That's right. It has to come the way God said build it. It can't come any other way: not by creed, not by joining, not by this, or not by sensation. It's got to come by the way of the cross, got to come by the way of the Blood. It's got to come and be filled with the Holy Ghost. It's got to be Holy Ghost material, and Holy Ghost material makes Holy Ghost people.

L-67 A cypress boat material makes a cypress boat, a poplar material make a poplar boat. See what I mean? And worldly material makes a worldly church. A Holy Ghost material makes a Holy Ghost church.
"What is this Holy Ghost church, Brother Branham? What does it do? How does it act?" We'll find out just in a little bit. See? All right. Constructed... The same as now, they--they try to believe. So many today... So many down through the age, has talked about... There's so many different ways, telling you so many people of different ways, it's a confusion. You go over here...

L-68 My old mother that just passed away a few months ago, when she was laying there on the bed, said, "Billy, I'm going."
I said, "Mother, don't talk like that. "
She said, "I'm going." Said, "I want to go see my other children. I want to see dad. I'm going." And she looked over...
I was standing there, her oldest; here stood my sister, the youngest. And there were ten of us children: nine boys and a girl.
She looked, and she said, "My first and my last." She said, "Delores, you're my only girl. You've been good to me." Said, "You've come and helped me do my washing. You've--you've loved me and taken care of me. "
She said, "Billy, you've seen that I never went hungry. You've paid my bills. You've give me a place to live in." And said, "You've been my spiritual guide. "

L-69 And I said, "Mother, a few years ago when I come to Christ as a little boy, after being called as a child," I said, "first being Irish, I thought I'd go down to the Irish church. And they said, 'We are the church. No matter what anything else says; we are the church.' And said, 'This is what you come, you got to come to this. This is the only church.'"
And I said, "Then I thought I'd go over and visit the Lutheran. The Lutheran said, 'We--we are the church. We are--we're that.' Now a church is a body of people, called-out body of people. I thought, 'Well, now, which one of them is the body? Which one of them really is the church? One says it's this way, and one says it's that way.' Went to the Methodists. They're this way, the Baptists this way."


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