<TITLE>08. Par 43-48</TITLE>L-43 And when a man takes a Word of God, no matter how little that faith is, but if it won't mix with any unbelief, it'll bring him out to the Light. Some of us have great faith that'll just perform miracles. Some has faith just to hold on till it happens. But if it's genuine faith, once ahold of it, there's nothing going to shake you from it. It ain't going to mix. Then that person is persistent. He has perseverance. No matter how many people says the days of miracles is past, he doesn't believe it. He holds on, because he's met the conditions and sunk that Word into a heart of faith that believes It. There he stays.

L-44 I know it. I seen sarcomas cancer go off of people, and deaf, dumb, and blind, universally, around the world, the dead raised up, and I know it's true. Right. Working upon vision, of course, then you know, then you know what's the will of God. You cannot work until you know the will of God. A promise in the Bible that tells you a certain thing, that's God's Word. Then He sends His Spirit back into the church in gifts to manifest Himself, just to comb out the little differences and so forth, to make Hisself real among us. Oh, what, how could we ask for anything different (See?) when He comes to us and makes Hisself so known, so personalized Himself: God amongst His people.

L-45 "A little while and the world..." The world, there's a Greek word "kosmos" which means "the world order." It'll sink. Every world order must sink, every nation that's dominated by Satan, always has been and always will be, outside of Israel, when they become a nation. Satan took Jesus up top of the mountain, said, showed Him the kingdoms of the world, all that was and would come, said, "I'll--I'll give them to You if You'll fall down and worship me."
He said, "Get hence, Satan." He knew He was going to fall heir to them in the millennium. But every one... I stood where the Pharaohs once governed the world, known, and you'd have to dig twenty feet beneath the earth to find their kingdoms, their seats where they once set, the Caesars of Rome and--and the Pharaohs of Egypt, all these things. And if the world should stand, so will these democracies be. But there is... What do they all speak of? Something in a human heart trying to find that unity.
And if you'd only look up, unity comes from God, the power of God. When the believer, the creation here on earth that God has created is united with God, then that comes a unity and gives faith. And when a man sees that, he's persistent; nobody's going to shake him.

L-48 Jesus said over there, "The works that I do shall you do also. A little while and the world (kosmos) sees Me no more. (That's the world order.) They see Me no more."
Many church members, fine people going to church, living under that thought that they're all right... Why, you're not all right as a church member. You're a citizen. You might try to do right, but, friend, let me tell you, you must be borned again. You don't come into the church... You don't come in the church by shaking hands, you don't come in church by church membership. You come into the church by birth.
I've been in the Branham family fifty-two years; I--they never asked me to join the family to make my name a Branham. I was borned into the family of Branhams. I'm a Branham by birth.
And that's how you're a Christian, by birth, when you're borned of the Spirit of God. Persistent, yes, that's when you can achieve something. All men down through the ages has always been able to achieve what... They're persistent if they're--if they have faith in what they're trying to achieve. It depends on what your achievement is. Depends on what you're trying to do, whether you're persistent or not, how much faith you got in what you're doing. We must have faith in God. We must believe God.


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