<TITLE>08. Par 70-76</TITLE>L-70 Let the Word, if the Word's in you... "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, then ask what you will." The Holy Spirit... "Ye abide in Me, My Word in you," that's the Word made flesh, "ask what you will and it'll be done." That's the way. Get all creeds, all things away, and hold to the Word because it is Christ. Notice, then it will manifest itself.
Someone said, "Brother Branham, how do you know those things. How?"
These what you see here in the meeting is amateur things. Anybody that travels with the meetings here, you know. The Holy Spirit reveals things that comes weeks and months between time. And ask anybody if it ever failed one time. It can't fail. See? "How do you know it?" Because it's a promise of the Word, and the hour is here. It's got to come to pass. Now, I don't know, there be a very few, a minority will believe it, but it's got to go forth just the same. And did you ever notice, it goes right over the people's head, and it's passed and done before they recognize it: always that way.

L-73 To you Catholic people, you know what your church done? Because Joan of Arc was a--a real saint of God, done miracles of God, prophesied of God... And you called her a witch and burned her to a stake, and her screaming for mercy, and you burned her to a stake. Hundreds of years later, you realized you was wrong, then you made a saint out of her. She passed right over you, and you didn't know her.
Elijah passed through, they didn't know him. "An old quack!" Christ passed through, they didn't know him till after His death, burial, and resurrection. God sets that. And it absolutely pulls the wool over the eyes of the unbeliever. And showed... He said, "I hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal it to babes such as will learn." Christ thanked God for doing it. See? Humble yourself. Believe it. Test the Word.
Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are they that testify of Me. You ought to have knowed the hour." Said, told the Pharisees, "You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky. But the signs of the time, you can't discern. For if you'd have knowed Me, you'd have knowed My day." Passed right over them, didn't know it till it was done gone. Notice now the Word being so important.

L-76 And notice another while we're on it: Lot. Jesus said Himself, "Remember Lot's wife." If the Word isn't so important, if reasoning is all right; when that Angel said to Lot and his family, "Go to Zoar, but don't look back..." And Lot's wife, on a little insignificant thing as to turn and look back, but it was contrary to the Word; she turned to a pillar of salt.
Then you say, "Telling women about cutting their hair, wearing clothes..." God said don't do it. You follow the Word. And Lot had, no doubt, a nice wife, but she didn't follow the commandment to the Word. Lot... Eve was a good woman, but she didn't follow the commandment to the Word; just reasoned a little with it.


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