<TITLE>17. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 You say, "Well, Saint Christopher So-and-so said so-and-so, and great..." Dwight Moody, great man... I don't say they wasn't, but they're unauthoritative. If they are... There's only one authority, and that's this Bible.
Say, "Why, the Wesleyan church does this a way, and they sprinkle instead of baptize," and all these other things that they got all mixed up. Say, "Well, they were great people."
I don't care. I believe they were too. I believe they were great people too. But they're... They haven't got the authoritative right to do that. For the Bible said, "Whosoever shall take one word away from this or add anything to it, the same of his part will be taken from the Book of Life." This is the Word. This is the Truth.

L-57 Well, "I know, but you see, we're schooled, and our pastors has done so-and-so. They got such educations, and they've study the Bible, and they've studied all history. And they claim that the days of miracles is past."
But God said it isn't. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works..."
Someone said, "Oh, sure. We do greater works because we've got a greater organization than He had. We got greater... We're all the way around the world." Wait a minute. Before you do that, do the works He did first, and then you can do the greater. He said you do His works first and then go greater. If you'll take the translation of that from the original, it doesn't say greater; it said more. The same works and more all the way around the world, then you got it right. Yeah. But there it is, unauthoritative word.

L-58 Someone asked me the other day, he said, "Why, Brother Branham, don't you believe in purgatory?"
I said, "Sure, I believe in purgatory."
Said, "Well, fine." Said, "That's good." Said, "You know..."
I said, "But I don't believe that after you die some priest to pray you out of it, or some preacher." I said, "I believe in purgatory, sure, purging your soul. But we do that now. When we do something wrong, let's get down and have a purgatory, say, 'God, cleanse me. Take the thing out of me and purge me, wash me, make me new.' I believe in purging my soul. Yes, sir. I do that daily. I'm in purgatory daily then (See?), so, just purging my soul every day before God."
"Well," he said, "Saint Andrew, and Saint So-and-so, and Saint Francis, and all these others, they..."
I said, "That may be all right."
"And you know Saint So-and-so, Saint Cecelia..."
I said, "That may be all right too. I don't say that." Well, you say... I say, "That's the reason you got six hundred different books to go from. You don't know where you're standing. But that's unauthoritative word." I told them I didn't believe in intercession of saints.
Said, "But Saint So-and-So said..."
But I said, "Peter said, 'There's no other mediator between God and man but that Man Christ Jesus.' He had the authority. Those apostles had the authority." Arguing about baptism... I said, "What do they say about it? Right. See what they said. The others is unauthoritative word. This is the Word."

L-59 When you got God's Word... if our... If--if--if we got God's Word and know that it's the truth, we can be so persistent, brother, and move right on in because God said so. That's the reason that I have always depended on that. I don't go in myself; I go when He tells me. I stay right with His Word. I don't go right or left; I stay right with It. And that's the reason He blesses it. Stay with it.
No matter how the devil tries to throw everything in front of you, say, "You'd be put out of your church if be do this..." Stay with it. God promised it. It's His Word. Amen. Stay with it. It's authoritative Word, God's authoritative Word. That's right.
He did say to that church, "Whosoever's sins you remit, is remitted; whosoever's sin you retain..." But what kind of church was it? Wish we could preach on that awhile sometime. All right. We won't now.


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