<TITLE>09. Par 78-86</TITLE>L-78 "Isn't it reasonable, Brother Branham, that we should do this? I'm an American citizen. I--I have a right to do whatever I want to. That's my American privilege." It's your American privilege, but not the Christian privilege. For by Christian, you are a sheep; and a sheep forfeits its rights. It lays still and lets you take away from it all the rights it has. But a goat will kick up a storm about it. That's right. But a sheep forfeits its rights. And a Christian always forfeits their national rights if it's contrary to your Christian rights.
Lot's wife merely looked back [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.]; that was it. Now, what did that do? It tells us here in Abraham and Lot, that the thing that they set forth there an example. And we cannot get away from it.
Hebrews the 11th chapter said, "These things was for our example. Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, we ought to lay aside every sin." What is sin? Unbelief. "Every sin, every unbelief of God's Word does so easily beset us."

L-81 We come up against something, say, "Well, they preach that--that--that was..." Don't you do that. You do just what God said do. Stay with It to the letter.
Say, "It don't make any difference."
All right, the only thing I can say is what the Word says. And Jesus strictly said that; "Remember Lot's wife." She merely looked over her shoulder. Eve merely stopped for a moment. That's all she done. Lot's wife just looked back. And if God turned that righteous man, Lot, his wife to a pillar of salt by just a little bitty thing, just disobeying His commandments enough to just look back and see what all that fire was about, and she turned to a pillar of salt, and stands there yet today as an example that God means what He says.
Oh, if real faith could anchor into people. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God."

L-84 Eve stopped for a moment. That's all she had to do. Satan had her caught and just reasoned it with her. "Isn't it reasonable? If Sister So-and-so can do that, can't you do it too? She's the pastor's wife." I don't care who she is, or who he is. If it's contrary to the Word, don't you listen to it. Go straight on. Examples...
That's the way Abraham did. How much reasoning do you think the--the medical science could've give him of that day, that he wasn't going to have that baby? And what about when he was seventy-five? Then we find him when he was a hundred, he still believed it stronger than he did the first place: had twenty-five years to keep building more faith onto it. I like that. Yes, sir.

L-86 Then I want to bring your attention to something else before we get up. Did you notice? I--I hope that you got it on that covenant being confirmed by writing that covenant and tearing it apart, did you get it? Raise your hands if you did, you got what it meant. Covenant wrote out, tore, God taking the manifestation of trinity, making it into one, tearing it apart, taking the body up on high, and sending back the Holy Spirit to live in the Church to produce the same thing that that body produced, as a wife, Bride: same Spirit, same work, same doctrine, everything just exactly the way He had it, same sign, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Notice.
There might be, peradventure, a Jew setting here. See, God does those things, and it goes right on among the people and yet they don't get it.
Like I was explaining about why women veil their face when they get married. Why? They may not understand that. But what they're doing is knowing that they are a body; they have no head; the man is their head. That's the reason Rebekah veiled herself. And that's why the church ought to veil itself and surrender itself to Christ, because He is the Head, and He is the Word.


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