<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-709-95 But when you raise above that to heavenly things then set your affections on things above, because you are risen with Christ and now seated together in heavenly places. Just rest assured, not a thing can harm you, not a thing. Even death itself has no... can't do a thing to you. You're already anchored in Christ. The assurance, the Earnest, the down payment's already been brought, you've accepted it. What did you do? Raised up with Him in resurrection.
Look back where I once was. Now, I'm above that. Why? By His grace He lifted me up, and here I am now seated in heavenly places in Christ. Oh, my. There you are. Then the Bible becomes a new Book. Then you're reading It through spiritual eyes and spiritual understanding. Then you see the nouns and pronouns, and then you see the junctions, and conjunctions, I mean, and so forth, in the Bible.
Oh, where It says... They say, "It contradicts Itself"; you're down here reading. Get up here and read It; It's all different then. You see? That's right. Sure. Sure, It means a whole new thing when you read It in the Spirit. Yes.

L-709-Q-172 This other question is really not a question, it just says:
172. I lived many years in sin until I found the Lord. Please, Brother Branham, I have sinned again, and I am not worthy to come before you in this holy place. Please tell me if I can be restored wholly again. Please help me, Brother Branham, I have a devil in me. Help me. Will you lay your hands upon me and restore me again?
Now, there is a question; I never noticed it when I read it awhile ago. There is a question. Now, if that person is present... Let me just read it to you:
I have lived--I have lived many years in sin until I found the Lord. Please, Brother Branham,... (See?)... I have sinned again, and I'm not worthy to come before you in this holy place. Please tell me if I can be restored whole again.
Yes. You have not sinned, my friend, so far in God but what you could be restored. If you had sinned so far that you could not be restored, you'd never want to be restored. See, see? But as long as there is Something dealing with your heart, you're still in line of restoration.
"Guilty of the least is guilty of the whole." I have sinned many times; every day every one of us do things that we don't want to do.

L-710-101 It's in our heart... You don't want to be that way or you wouldn't ask this question. See? That's itself a proof that God's still dealing with you. You've probably gotten nervous, probably Satan telling you that you can't be restored. He's a-lying, certainly, he is. Because look, if there is a deep calling, there's got to be a Deep to respond to the call. If there's a hunger for Something, that Something's got to be somewhere or you would have no hunger for It. See?
As I've said lots of time. Before a fish had a fin on his back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in or he wouldn't had any fin. Before there's a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first before there was a tree, because the earth had to be first for the tree to grow.

L-710-103 Now, before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. See what I mean? Now, as long as you are wanting and hungering to get back to God, there's a God somewhere calling to you (See?), or you wouldn't be hungering. There's a Creator.
Now, if you... There is a place that you can cross where you can't get back, but when that is, you're down there again in the same shape you was. It goes to show that you only fell from grace. Backsliding's not lost; I want somebody to tell me where backsliding's lost, and prove it to the Bible. Backslider's not lost; he's just out of fellowship.
Israel backslid but they never lost their covenant; they lost their--their praises and joy.
David lost the joy of his salvation when he took Bathsheba, Uriah's wife, but he never lost his salvation. He never said "restore to me my salvation"; he said, "Restore to me the joy of my salvation."


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