<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Now, Christian friends, and to Brother Eddie, and the staff of minister brothers here, and to you out there, we are not here to represent any certain denominational church. We are here in behalf of the love of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We are here not to make members of any certain church, but of the church. And there's only one church after all, and that's the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we do not join it; by one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, which is the church, His bride, His body. And that's how we become Christians. And we love Him, and I know every--the rest of them does.
Now, we do have organizations, denominations. Them's all right. That's fine, but as long as you don't draw a line, and say, "We are it, and you're not." See? We're--we're all it, if we're baptized into the body. And I've said, "I've been with the Branham family now for over fifty years, and they never did ask me to join the family." You know why? I was borned in it. I--I was--I was a Branham by birth. And that's the way we become a Christian. It's by birth. No matter what church we belong to, we are Christians by birth. And then by birth, brings His Life into us and produces His Life through us. You see?

L-21 And you... If you could take the sap, the life out of a apple tree and put it in a grapevine, that grapevine would bear apples (See?), because the life that was--bears apples, the germ is in the life, and it would bear apples on a grapevine. Depends on what kind of a life is on the inside of it. See? That's right.
Now, if you could take a peach tree and a pear tree, and take the--the life out of the peach tree, just take out all the life, and put it over into the pear tree, every bit of the life (no more pear tree life in it, but peach tree life), it would bear peach leaves. It'd have--it'd have peach leaves, and bear peaches, because it's got peach tree life in it.
And no matter how bad the sinner is, how wicked, how bad they are, how much of an unbeliever, if you can just take all that old unbelieving life out of him (See?), put the Life of Christ in Him, he will be a different person. That's right. He sure will. He will sure be a different person.

L-22 And I believe the Bible to be God's Word. See? I believe that It's perfect. And it--and there can be nothing taken from It, or nothing added to It.
Now, background, I'm Irish by descent; so therefore, my people were Catholic. But in our church--my own home they never married in the church, so they belonged to nothing. And there's where I got my calling. You probably got the books, and read them, of my life story. And then I was called to this ministry.
Now, when I first become a Christian, or to believe on Christ... From a little boy it started with me, when I was--first, when I was born. When I was born, that Light that you see in the picture here, was hanging over the cradle where I was born, way up in the mountains, with not even a--a wooden floor, just dirt.
And we didn't even have a... They--they didn't even have a table. Papa cut a piece of a stump off, and put legs on it for a table. And I had a little bed made out of corn shucks. I don't know whether you know what, the husks off of the corn, the shuck? And they made the pillow and bed out of that. And that's where I was born, on five o'clock one morning. And didn't even have glass in the window, just a little door you push out. And--and then that Light come in. It goes to show that God don't have to have a palace to come to, just a humble home, anybody that will believe.


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