<TITLE>14. Par 102-111</TITLE>L-102 There was a certain minister said today; I heard him, he said that on a broadcast, he said, that when he come into the country, he had a great sinus trouble, and they were talking of an operation. And they said that they was going to do this and that, and cut on him and operate, and take part of the sinus glands out, which would sink his face in, and so forth like that. And he said he'd taken pills by the barrel. Look like there was so many pills that he had to take. But when he come to a good Christian doctor, the doctor said, "Let's forget the pills and let's forget the operation, and let's build up the body so it can resist the sinus." That's it.

L-103 What's the matter that people don't live as long as they used to? We have to take a shot for this and a shot for that, and spraying ourselves over with all kinds of medicine. What does it do? It gets us soft, fat, flabby, no good. When the man of long ago... Why, we're allergic to everything. Now, they're getting mal--allergies and everything else.
I've stood in Africa, couldn't take a shot for Malaria. But a Malaria mosquito would light on my hand; I had Malaria. They don't buzz, and you don't know hardly. They light; they just light on; that's it; you've had it. And if you live, you'll have it for fifteen years. And then sometimes you die with it. And there was those natives in their little huts, with mosquitoes all over their legs, them naked. Mosquitoes sticking on them, malaria mosquitoes, and it didn't bother them. Why? They'd built up an immunity. They had a God-given inoculation.

L-105 And that's what's the matter today with the people. That's what's the matter with the church. We got so much baby shots and man-made theology, until we're sprayed over. What we need is God's inoculation by the Word of the Lord God. Man shall live daily by that type of a Food to build his soul into inoculation from spiritual diseases that's flowing and jumping around the country. Got lots of notes on this, but I'm going to have to stop.

L-106 Now, build up, get ready for the inoculation. Now, we live by this; our--our bodies must have this. And if we don't then we are subject to all kinds of diseases. And the Word of God, as we believe It and accept It by communion, "Lord, Thy Word is Truth."...
"My church says you don't have to be born again. They say shaking hands is born again. They say sprinkling. They say all these other things, that's it: Father, Son and Holy Ghost." But the Bible said to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. See? Now, you go ahead with those artificial shots if you want to; you'll make yourself an artificial Christian. See? You don't want that.

L-108 You can't have Life, only through Christ. And now what does His Word do? It builds up our spiritual body, strong, as we commune with Him to resist the devil.
You say, "Brother Branham, what's that you say, 'communing in His Word'?"
Yes, He is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." And we are to eat His body. Then His body is His Word, because He is the Word. And He said in St. John 15, "If ye abide in Me, and My communion, My Word, abides in you, then you can ask what you will and it'll be done for you." There you are. That's true. See, ask what you will.

L-111 What do you do? You're building up your body to inoculation from the... Somebody comes in and said, "Oh, our church don't believe in shouting." See, you're built up. What? You got communion in you: the Word. And you're inoculated from it. If a bunch of nonsense comes in, what is it? It has no Word in it, then you're sure it's wrong. I don't care how real it looks, if it's not the Word, leave it alone (That's right.): leave it alone. I don't care what it does; it must compare with the Word.


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