<TITLE>13. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 And remember, when you die and that soul leaves you, it never changes. No, sir. Death doesn't change the soul. It changes its dwelling place, but it's still the same soul. So if it isn't borned again, and a part of the eternal Spirit of God, it had a beginning. Anything with a beginning has an end. That's the reason God's the only thing's eternal.
Unless you're born again and have eternal life (the Greek word "Zoe" there means "God's own life" in you) you'll perish. But where God's life is in you, you can no more perish than God can perish (That's right.) because you are a son, an offspring of God, and have Eternal Life. Oh, that's the thing the church needs. Then when God is in you, then He lives His own Life through you. See? And that's how we--we know that we're Christians. Then you're concerned about your brother.

L-53 If the Spirit that was in Christ that... He was so concerned that He came from heaven, give up heaven, came down here on earth, and become borned in a manured stable with a bunch of bleating cattle, with not even clothes to put on Him. He--He associated... Not a place to lay His head, not a tomb to be buried in, smitten and stricken the way He was... He was concerned enough, and God so loved the world to give His only begotten Son, and all those things there, that that Spirit that was in Him in you, and then we're not concerned about one another and about the church?

L-54 People's telling me all the time... A man said not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, quit picking on the church. Quit saying these things. That ain't for you to say."
I said, "Then who's going to say it then?" That's right. That's... Sure, it's--it's our duty. It's our duty to the people to really tell the truth, 'cause you're going to meet it again. This is just a little stay; that's eternal there. Let's stay with it, tell the truth and be truthful about it. Yes, concerned first. Before you can get concerned you have to be convinced you're right. Then when you're convinced that God is right, and God is in you, and God's did such great things for you, then you're sure. You see your brother in error, you're going tell him about it. If there isn't, there's something wrong. That's the--the truth.
Now, and if you see that the church is wrong, you're--no matter... You love the church, and--and you're... Christ loved the church and He gave His life for it, and we're supposed to do the same thing: not only supposed to, but we will if we've got the love of Christ in us. It constrains us and behooves us to do so as Christians. Yes.

L-55 As soon as Andrew got convinced that that was Messiah, what did he do? No doubt that night, setting there in the meeting where him and--and his companion, Christ, set in the house there, no doubt but what Jesus went right back in the Scriptures and begin to tell him.
Now, Andrew was a scholar, because his father was... He--him and Peter was... His father was a Pharisee, and he was a good trained man. And so he knowed what Messiah would be like. And when he seen the Messiah doing the things that Messiah should do, he saw the way He lived, and everything, he was convinced that that was the Messiah. Now, when you see God get ahold of you, and change your life to make you from what you--you--what you're not, to what you ought to be, then you're ready to tell somebody else about it. You're convinced.

L-56 But the trouble of it is, we walk up... We have a short, quick bypass. We just, "Oh, we can't stay there very long. No, don't talk ten days to us, or all night." No, we got to go up, and maybe we'll shake hands with the minister, or put our name on the book, or go through some little sensation. "We got it." Out right... One night in the barroom, the next night preaching the Gospel. See, see? Oh, my. That's what--where the trouble is. That's what we get so mixed up about (See?), on those things. Let a man prove hisself.


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