<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 If God met a man, and upon the basis of his faith under the shed blood, saved the first man, Adam, He has to forever remain under the same program. If He didn't, He done something wrong when He made His first decision. If God saved a man, and the only way that He saved him was by the shed blood of an innocent lamb, if that was the basis God decided to save man by, anything... If He ever changes it to somebody's creed, or a church, or some dogma, then God made the wrong decision in the garden of Eden. For the first man He ever saved, He saved him on the basis of his faith in the shed blood of an innocent lamb. That was the only place that he could come.
God chose a place, called Adam and Eve, and shed the blood of an innocent one and covered them with the substance of this innocent one, with the blood upon them. That was the basis that man could talk to God, and hear His Word, and get His Word, was under the shed blood.

L-26 And the only way that men, or churches, or peoples will ever know the real truth about God, is come under the shed Blood of the innocent One into His Presence. Then the Spirit that comes upon you will testify that this Word is right, every Word of It, and It don't need correction nowhere. That's right. It--it has to remain that way, 'cause He's God, and His decision has to be perfect, and forever perfect.
Let's run the thing just for a few moments. The first thing you know my thirty minutes will be up and I won't be started.
Now. And under the shed blood... Now, we realize that the oldest Book in the Bible is Job, the oldest written Book. It was wrote before Moses wrote Genesis. It said it was written before Moses wrote Genesis, rather.

L-27 Now, notice. Job, righteous man, godly man. Everything against him one day. Satan took a notion to make him deny God. And when he did, Job... I love to read Job. Many people say it's a riddle. It isn't. It's the Word of God. Jesus referred to Job about "Have you not heard of patience..."
No matter what was going on, how much he was persecuted, how much he was called that he was in the wrong path, Job stayed pat on the Word. I like that. He said, "Peradventure my children have sinned. I'll offer a sacrifice for them."
Now, the only thing the man knew was the burnt offering. That was God's requirement. And many people think at times because disaster happens to a Christian, "Oh, he got off the will of God. They left the church; they went out...?..." Sometimes that's not right, because God chastens every son that comes to Him. He cleanses him, and purges him, and tries, to see if he will stand. That's what He was doing in the time of Job.

L-28 I preached on Job one time for about six months when I pastored. There was a lady had the honesty enough... I got him up to that ash heap, setting out there, you know, all full of boils and a piece of crock combing off his boils. And a lady said, "Brother Branham, are you ever going to get Job off that ash heap?" About three Sundays, but I was building around to make it.
There he was. He was a prophet. He was God's anointed. And the only thing the man knowed to do was stay with the Word. That's all. They come and they said, "Job, you know you've done wrong. Look what's happened to you. Everybody's turned their back upon you. And here your friends are gone and all. The only thing you can do is set out here, and look at, you're a miserable looking wretch with boils and everything broke out on you. And look at your condition." But Job said he had not sinned, because he is coming God's appointed way under the shed blood.


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