<TITLE>27. Par -</TITLE>L-40-6 And look at what He was doing. He was actually tearing up every church there was in the country. Was that right? Organizations, everything else... What was He? Just some overgrown boy going around like that, young fellow, no denomination...
"Tell me what church you belong to. Who is your father? You say Joseph's not your father?"
"Joseph is not My father," He'd say.
"Well, who is your father?"
"God's My Father."
"Well, you fanatic. That's exactly what you...?... You being a man and saying God is your father?"
If they would've examined it by the Word... Hallelujah. Don't you see what, the Word was to be made flesh. They didn't examine their vision with the Word.
That's it; that's what's the matter today. You don't examine your visions with the--your--your prophecy and your doctrine with God's Word. Somebody try to tell you Truth, then you fall out with them. Just like Amos would--Amos did, you'd do the same thing.

L-41-3 Now, look here, He's in this condition. Now, you would've condemned Him, perhaps (That's right.), if you hadn't have went back to the Word. They do the same; they condemn Him today.
What if you women here and here... Yeah. Why don't you examine your idea of your bobbed hair with the Word and see what It says? Why don't you do those things?
Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that false trinity it's so-called, which is nothing in the world but three offices of one God: titles. No name of Father, there's no such a thing as name, Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Examine your baptism with the way everyone in the Bible was baptized.
If you'd examine your thought with the Word, you--you'd come back and you'd be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Paul told them to do, and said if anybody else taught anything different let him--let him be accursed, even if an Angel come down...

L-41-7 You know, lot of times Angels come down. Boy, how Pentecost eats that up. How about when St. Martin was standing there, and here stood a great, bright being stood before him: a man who baptized in Jesus' Name, who believed in the Holy Ghost, and kept the Word. And the Romans kicking him out, and doing everything to him trying to get in their dogmas and man-made doctrines, that man stood on the Word. And one day in his power... The devils would come to him and try to talk to him. He wouldn't pay no attention to them. One day Satan came like a--like Christ, crowned, golden slippers on, stood there and said, "Don't you..." Blazes of fire around him, said, "Don't you recognize me, Martin? I'm your Lord; worship me."
Martin looked at him; there's something wrong there.
He said, "Martin, can't you recognize me?" Said, "I am your Lord and Saviour." Said, "Worship me."
And he said that three times, and Martin looked around; he seen Christ would be crowned by His people at the coming; He wouldn't be wearing golden slippers. He said, "Get thee away from me, Satan." Boy, wouldn't Pentecostals eat that up? Boy, a bright shining angel...

L-42-1 That woman come down from Chicago (where I'm going) said, "Brother Branham, the ministers up there said if the Angel of the Lord told you to baptize in Jesus' Name, they'd accept it; but they say that's your own thought."
I said, "If the Angel of the Lord said anything contrary to that, it wouldn't be the Angel of the Lord." See?
If the--if any Angel says anything that's contrary to this Word, let it be a lie. And if a man tells you, a messenger from God (says he's from God), and tells you it's right to be baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, let him be a liar. If a man tells you it's all right for you to wear bobbed hair and things like that, that you ought to wear a hat in the church for a bonnet to be a covering, let him be a liar: the Word of God, the Truth. Any of these things that's against the Word, let it be a lie. It's the Word is the Truth; It'll stand.


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