<TITLE>11. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 Now, they call the new birth, oh, everything. "Oh, sure. I believe in being born again." And they say they're born again, and deny the Word, say they have the Holy Ghost, and take the Scriptures that plainly teach the Bible, how It is, and then they say, "Oh, that was for another age." And mean that the Holy Ghost that's in you will witness to that was for another age? when He said it's to you and your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
He can't lie. And if there's a spirit in you that denies that to be the truth, then it's not the Holy Spirit, 'cause the Holy Spirit wrote the Word. Amen. That's as solid as I know how to place it.
It takes death to produce life. You've got to die to your own thinking. You've got to die to your own theology. You've got to die to your own self, to your own human ways. You've got to be regenerated, a new creature, a new creation. Before you can be that... You can't be two at the same time; you got to die to one in order to be born in the other. It brings a mess, and it causes a mess too. But you're--you got new life. What difference does it make? You got to do it.

L-42 You know there was a time when we couldn't even inoculate people for typhoid fever. I'm looking at a friend of mine, a nurse, setting here watching me while I'm speaking this. But that's right. Sister Dauch, there was a time when they didn't have inoculation for typhoid fever. Thousands died with it. There was a time when they didn't have inoculation for polio. Thousands times thousands of little children died. But now there's no excuse. We have inoculation. That's right. All right.

L-43 Now, there was a time when this toxin, or balm which we'll call toxin of God, that it wasn't too perfect, because it was called... It was by the blood of goats, and sheep, and cattle, and so forth. It didn't exactly take away sin; it just covered sin. A man had to go year by year to make his confession and so forth. There was a time when it was, right.
But now the worshipper once purged has no more conscious of sin. And what is sin? Unbelief, unbelief in what? The Word. Certainly. If you say you believe God and deny His Word, why, you don't believe Him.
If you say, "I believe Brother Branham," say, "but he's wrong. He's..." Well, how can you do that? You couldn't do it. I'd know you was wrong, 'cause you didn't believe me.
And if you say you believe God, and deny His Word, well then, you don't believe God, 'cause God is His Word. You just can't do it. You've got to accept the Word. That's the way back--back by the Word path, and the Word is God.


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