<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 Now, let's stop just a minute. Here once we used to lie, steal, cheat, fight, curse, everything else. And then we confessed all that sin. Then we were buried with Him in baptism and raised up with Him. And when we come up, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the evidence," the evidence of this good land. And then that Spirit that comes upon us brings us up from that lying, stealing, and all that stuff back there. And now we have raised up with Him, now setting with Him up here in heavenly places. Our souls are absolutely, already.

L-11 Why, William Branham's been dead for thirty-some-odd years. I become a new creature. That old man died. I look back there, talking to that friend of mine this afternoon. He said, "You remember when we used to do so-and-so? You remember when we throwed that boy in the water that night snoring."
I said, "Yeah. I wouldn't do that again."
"Remember that time we was going to stick that pin in that frog, when he'd 'gurr' like that?"
"Yeah," I said, "I remember that, and all these things that we done."
I thought, "You know that's when I was... That's when I was... That's when I was dead." See? But now I'm alive. Oh, I don't do that. Now, we're setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And now we have the earnest of our salvation, the first payment. The thing cost ten thousand dollars, and He give us the first thousand. See? This is the first tenth of our earnest which... We've already raised from sin and unbelief up into the resurrection with Christ, and now setting together in heavenly places with that evidence, like Joshua brought back. The land's there and we're on our road. No more death, can't die.

L-12 When they tell you sometime, "Brother Branham died," don't you believe that. Why? Brother Branham can't die. See? That's right. I can't die: done dead. Now, William Branham died a long time ago--about thirty years ago or better, about thirty-two years ago. I've been preaching about thirty-two years. So he died even before that. But now this is a new creature.
Russell Creech, a new creature, he ain't that little boy that used to run around down there in below Corydon. Orman Neville ain't that little boy that used to be, and--and Brother Ruddell ain't that little boy that used to be, you know. And Brother Jackson and all these others, they're not them fellows. All you brothers and sisters, we're not them people we used to be. We are--we are new creatures--new creations. You don't have to worry about it; we're already up here. Look where we was; look where we are now: new creations in Christ Jesus. Oh, my. You know, Russell, I feel like I could almost sing that song that every time I hear it, I think of you and Sister Creech.
 I'll fly away, O glory.
 I'll fly away in the morning. (Yes, sir. Remember when we used to sing that?)
 When I die, hallelujah, by and by,
 I'll fly away. (I like that.)


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