<TITLE>09. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 So "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It hadn't been expressed yet. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Word, Christ is the Word. Now, when He came on earth... In the beginning was the Word, and, the thought Word, and then the Word once expressed in Eden, it become reality.
God cannot say anything and ever take it back. That's why we base our--our hopes upon God, because God being infinite, He cannot change. If I can say something today, tomorrow I might think different. Next year I might be a lot smarter; I can think different. You can. But not God. Every decision is perfect. If God once says anything, it's eternal that way. It can never be changed.
And now, God... That's the reason Jesus was the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, because it was in God's thinking. And when the Word was expressed, then it become flesh and dwelt among us. Oh, I love that. That gives me such hope. I--I--I love that because it gives the assurance that the great infinite God that we serve knowed all things and knowed us before the world was ever created. How glorious that is.

L-37 The people gets scared. What are you scared about? Those who He foreknew He called; those who He called He justified; those who He has justified, He's already glorified. What you scared about? Just take a hold of God like little children, and hold onto it, and believe God your Father. He loves you. He's done everything He could to redeem you. You're...
And the Bible said the antichrist deceived all that lived upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world. God, by His foreknowledge, saw you, put your name in His Book. And that's the reason you're here tonight, because you've answered that call. God foreknew you and called you, and you accepted His call.
Now, you say, can you... I... Every man seeks out his own salvation with fear and trembling. I hope my name was among that. But if it was, my name ever on the Book of Life, it was put there before the foundation of the world, when the Lamb was slain for me in the thinking of God. He's infinite. You don't just simply run a business just haphazardly. I don't run my business like that, and you wouldn't yours. God doesn't His. Christ come to redeem those who God foresaw and foreknew that would come to Him. Aren't you glad that you have come?

L-38 And now, with reverence you say, "Brother Branham, am I there?" I don't know. If you're in the church, you're there. And the only one way to get in the church: by one Spirit, we're all baptized into one body by the Holy Spirit. We don't join it. Joining church is all right, but I've been with the Branham family fifty-three years, and they've never asked me to join the family. I was born in it. So I become a Branham by birth. And that's the way a man becomes a Christian, when he's borned of the Holy Spirit. And then if you're borned of the Holy Spirit then you'll become, through Christ... Being dead in Christ you take on Abraham's royal seed, and are heirs with Abraham according to the promise.


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