<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-34-1 When this statue is molded itself up there in a condition, God's breath breathes upon them, "Receive the Holy Ghost." Then you are a son of God. You can join anything you want to, but you're borned into the--the Church of the living God, born by the breath of God. God breathed upon them and said, "Receive ye [Brother Branham makes a breathing sound--Ed.] the Holy Ghost." Oh, my, there you are. Not "Come and join, put your name on there," and with your soup suppers and all that goes with it. You join a lodge. You can join a Methodist lodge, Baptist lodge, Presbyterian lodge, Catholic lodge, or a Pentecostal lodge, anything you want to join, but you're joining a lodge. But when you become a child of God, you're born by the breath of God. Amen. Better leave it alone right there now. All right.

L-34-2 God's Life is also then in you. Jesus said (just a minute)--Jesus said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branch." Now look. What was their fuss with Jesus? Their fuss with Jesus, because He was a Man making Himself God. He was God. God was in Christ. See? And He told them; He said, "Don't look at Me. It's not Me; it's My Father, and He dwells in Me." See?
Now, they was looking at that little body that was borned of Mary. See? That wasn't God; that was the Son of God, but God was in that body. It was God. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father then condemn Me. But which one of you can condemn Me of sin (unbelief of the Word)? Which word has God spoke that hasn't been fulfilled in Me? (Sin is unbelief.) Which one of you accuse Me of sin? (Sin is unbelief.) Show Me. If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My... though you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do for they testify." Otherwise, "The Father's in Me, testifying of Himself," 'cause God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. You get it? Well now, the same life that's in the vine is also in the branch. How are you going to join in that? You can't.

L-34-4 I seen a tree not long ago in Brother Sharritt's yard in Arizona, had nine different citrus fruits on it. What was it? It was a--it was a orange tree, a navel orange, but it had a--it had a--a lemon, a tangerine, a tangelo, and a grapefruit; it had all kinds. And I stood, looked at that tree, and I said, "Brother Sharritt, you mean to tell me that that tree's a orange tree?"
He said, "Sure."
And I said, "Well, how--how come?" I said, "I see a grapefruit here, and a tangerine here, and tangelo here, and a lemon here, and all these other fruits. How does it come?"
He said, "Well, you see, they're grafted in."
"Oh." I said, "Well, I want to ask you something. Now, you pick this grapefruit and lemon off. Now, next year it will what? It will come forth then with a orange out of that?"
"Oh, no." Said, "It'll come forth with a lemon."
"Oh." I said, "Thank thee." See?

L-35-1 You can't do that. You can't join in. But he said every time that that tree gets a year older and puts out a new branch, it comes forth with oranges, if the vine itself puts out the branch.
And what we've tried to do is be joined members into Him, and we live under the name of Christianity; because we are (as it's a--in a common way of saying) "We are the citrus fruit," the Christian church. But when the vine itself puts forth a vine, it'll be like the first vine it put forth. If the first Vine it put forth, they wrote a Book of Acts behind it, if it ever puts forth another one, it'll write a Book of Acts behind it. That's right.


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