<TITLE>10. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 That's the reason Christians... I think it's so real tonight, and so--that we should live the right kind of a life, because (You see?), there's many people won't take time to read the Bible, but they'll read you. See, you are a written epistle of God, a real, true, borned again Christian is the Word expressed again, because you're written epistles of God, read of all men.
What type of person should we to be if we know that our lives is an open, living Bible to the unbeliever, to express God in our own life? Notice. Now, we see He was the Word, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Now, we find out that in Hebrews (you're writing it down), Hebrews 4:12, the Bible said that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the asunder and marrow of the bone, and a Discerner of the thoughts that's in the heart. The Word of God discerns the thoughts that's in your heart. Therefore, God tonight, being the Word, knows exactly what you're even thinking about this very minute. So should not our thoughts be pure, clean, holy, always thinking the best?

L-34 Jesus said to the Pharisees, said, "How can you speak good things, for out of the..." Said, "You hypocrites," said, "out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth." See, they were thinking something in their heart and speaking something different with their mouth. So that made them hypocrites. Said, "How can you speak good things when out of the abundance of the heart..." He knowed what was in their heart. See? "How can you say good things, when out of your heart you should speak?"
Therefore, we should never speak anything but what we believe and understand, and let it be pure, undefiled, and--and holy. And let our conversation be clean and pure, our thoughts thinking the best things, thinking God's thoughts, staying upon God's program, and away from the things of the world.

L-35 It's too bad that the things of the world has so captured the church in these days. And Satan had a rude way of doing it, to bring in the televisions right into the homes, and things, and corrupting the minds of the people, and till today that--that a great percent of the church that call themselves Christians will stay home from prayer meeting on a Wednesday night to get to see some favorite program of somebody from Hollywood, or somewhere, that oughtn't to even be put out on the screen, maybe living with three or four husbands, or wives, and carrying on, and living all kinds of lives, go out on drunk parties, and smoking, and lying, and everything that can be done that's wrong.
And our churches are fashioning theirself... Even our dress in this day becomes after Hollywood. What a pity it's got to be, that our minds think--can't stay pure and holy with Christ. It's done something to the church. It's crippled it, and it's done a horrible thing. All of our papers, and everything, just seems to be corrupted. But listen, friends, it's in that hour of corruption, and that time of corruption that God draws Hisself a Bride that comes out of that corruption. That's what He's looking for, to get a church that's called by His Name, somebody that looks for a life that has no end.

L-36 What if they give you tonight time that you could live ten thousand years, and be all the--the king over the whole earth. Say, "Would you swap that for your experience, Mr. Branham?" No, sir. If I live ten million years, and never get a day older than twenty years old, and owned the whole earth and all the things in it, and guaranteed to never be sick in ten million years, I'd still lay it back in their lap. I've got something greater than that. I got Eternal Life. Yes.
When them ten million years is gone to my Eternal Life, why, it'll never even be like... It never had no beginning, so it can't end. I become a son, and you become a son and daughter of God. And God never did begin, so He never ends. So the Word of God must be expressed in our own being.


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