<TITLE>11. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 Now, the same way it changes, is the same way it changed for me down there. See? I just believe it. Don't know how it's done, but there was a new creature come. I used to... I'd shun church. I... A guy told me when I used to box... We... I was fighting my fifteenth professional fight down here at--at Evansville, Indiana, and Howard McClain... Many of you New Albany people knew him there. And we was walking up the street. And Howard was a welterweight, and I was a bantam weight, and I was fighting Billy Frick from Huntington, West Virginia. Had on a blue suit like this. In them days I had a little hair. And I was walking up the street. We'd eat supper about three o'clock, getting ready for the fight that night. We was going in there to rest and then have our hands wrapped.
And Howard said to me, he said, "You know what, Bill?"
I said, "What?"
Said, "You look like a little Baptist preacher."
And he could've called me anything... I never... I turned around. I said, "Now, wait a minute, Howard. Now, you laugh when you say that."
Me about that high, but I was ready to climb right on him. I wanted nothing to do with no preacher; and now, the greatest compliment that he could've give me. Oh, when somebody says, "Brother Branham, you look like a preacher," I say, "Praise God." See, see?

L-35 What's the matter? I died. And I'm a new creature. How did I do it? I took His Word. "Brother Branham, what kind of medicine, what formula did you take?" I didn't take any. How did He do it? I don't know, but anyhow I believed it. I never took nothing. I just believed it, and He raised me up from what I was, a sinner, to a Christian. He did it because I took His Word. He will do the same thing by sickness; He will do the same thing by the baptism of the Holy Spirit; He will do the same thing by any promise He give.

L-36 But see, what--what's my subject? The Conflict. The conflict: Satan tries to get you to reason about it. And don't you do it. But after you become a Christian, then you are fortified by the Word and any promise in the Word. Whew. I didn't know I was going to say that. See?
You are... When you become a Christian, you're placed behind the Word of God. See? Now, there's your fortress, safety. Oh, my. Every promise in That is yours. Only thing you have to do is just reach to get it, and go right on with it. "How do you know it's going to work?" I don't know how it's going to work. "Explain to me." I don't know. The only thing I know that God gave His children the best attack that they could have, and the best thing to attack with, 'cause He knows the working of the enemy.

L-37 Now, let's--let's diagnose that down--like take the chemistry of the blood, or the chemistry of water, or--or whatever it is. See? Let's--let's diagnose it down. Why? Why did He give the Word? Because (Are you ready?) the Word is eternal. See? And if God made a promise, that is eternal and there's nothing nowhere can stop it.
They couldn't have... Turn every atom upside down and turn it backwards, could never pierce the Word of God one little word (See?), 'cause Jesus said, "Both heavens and earth will pass away but My Word shall never fail," See, see? That's the best weapon there is. It's the Word of the eternal God.
Now, what is the Word of God? The Word of God is God Himself. So God gave the believer Himself. Amen. Whew. It's God Himself. He gave the believer Himself to attack the enemy by. In other words, He's the Father and the Word is God. Then the Word is our Father. We're born by the Word, and He's standing in the forefront for His children. Amen. There you are. He's standing out there for His children. What are we scared about? The rapture's sure; the coming's sure; every blessing that's been promised is ours; all belongs to us.


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