<TITLE>07. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 And I believe that that's what the great church of the living God has done in this last days. It's to bring to the people the recognition of the living God among the church. See? That's what it's raised up for. And that church is to come back, not to a creed, like the Roman dogma or something: it's to come back to the Bible. Get back to the Word. No matter what It says, just--just cope with the Word, not to use our own thinking; stay with the Word, because It's the promise of God.

L-34 Now, unbelief is an old thing way back in Eden. And it first come in so cunning, almost truth. Now, if someone said, "Brother Branham went up to the Church of God this morning." Correctly. "He met the pastor." Yes. "Had on a dark suit and tie." Yes, that's true. "He set down on the right side of the pastor." Correctly. "Got up and spoke." Yes. And maybe all of that's true, every bit of it. Then they'd say, "Just before, when he come to the door, when he got to the door there, he took a drink out of a bottle." Now, there is the lie. But all the rest of it is so true (See?), the rest of it's so perfectly true, till that one little thing besets the whole thing and makes it a lie.

L-35 Well, that's the way the devil does. He brings us down to everything, and shows it so lovely, and will go in and agree with most of the Word of God; but he won't take all the Word of God. And that's what we've got to do. He will say, "I believe that there is such a thing as new birth. But what I think it is, is a change of mind."
But it isn't a change of mind; it's a new creature. It isn't... The--the church doesn't need a face lifting; it needs a conversion. It needs to be a new creature. And unbelief will push you over to one side. Many of them say, "Well, now, I believe that... We believe in the Holy Ghost in our place, but we believe that when we believe God we receive the Holy Ghost." Now, you see how close that is?
What if the disciples, after six days Matthew said to--to Andrew, "You know what? I believe we've already got it. Let's accept it by faith," See? It would've never happened. See? The only way that they knew how it would be when it comes, they had the Scriptures to prove what it would be when it come. That's right.

L-36 Joel said, "It shall come to pass," Joel 2:28, "it shall come to pass in the last days I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Upon My handmaids and maidservants will I pour out of My Spirit. And I'll show signs in the heavens and in the earth," so forth.
Isaiah 28:18 said, "And it shall come to pass in these last days," that the tables would be full of vomit, and so forth, He said. But the Word would come, precept upon precept, line upon line upon line, here a little and there a little, and hold fast to that what's good. For with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the rest. This is the keeping of the sabbath that you should enter into. For all this, they wouldn't understand it, walked away, wagging their heads, and so forth. So you see, those disciples were trained to the Word.


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