<TITLE>18. Par 65-67</TITLE>L-65 Now. And we find out that poor man in spirit laid at his gate and scrambled for the crumbs. Oh, maybe, if it was the Salvation Army, he'd give him a dime when he passed by, or something, to keep it looking so bad. But I imagine he invested in his own church greatly, and his organization that kept him great big somebody.
But the payoff finally come. It finally got there: great funeral service he had. I imagine some old bachelor come along with a wide robe on and said, "Our precious brother now is in heaven. Oh, he did so-and-so. He is a member of our congregation. He is now in heaven. Oh, how we are grateful for our precious brother." How different it was to the Word of God.
Jesus said his payoff, he was in hell. He made the wrong investment. And in hell he looked up and saw the poor in spirit, who had made his investment enjoying it in the bosoms of Abraham. And then he become a beggar.
Listen. He was a professed believer. "Father Abraham, send that beggar down here." It turned back again. His investment was in the wrong thing, the possession of the world and the praise of men.
But this beggar laid there hungry, and he become in the bosoms of Abraham.
"Send Lazarus. He's there where he can get a drink of water any time he wants to. He can there enjoying the blessings of God. Send him down with a few drop of water upon his fingers, that he might touch my parching lips here, because these flames are tormenting me." That's the payoff. What for? Rejecting to make the right investment.
Don't do it, men. Don't do it, businessman. I--I've got more confidence in you than that. If you're a businessman, sell every pearl you got and buy the One of great price. Make your investment in Christ, in His Life in you.

L-66 Now, we realize that everything that has a beginning has an end. And there's only one thing that never had a beginning, and that was God. And when the Bible speaks there (I don't think I'm misquoting it, before a Greek scholar, and a Greek man.), the word "Zoe" means "God's own Life." Then if we have Eternal Life, the Greek word "Zoe" means that we have part of God's own Life, because we become a part of Him. We are a son and daughter of His. Then we have Eternal Life, and that doesn't die. You have Eternal Life.
There's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. God is eternal. He never did begin, He never can end. And the only way we can be eternal with Him is to come part of Him. The only way I become a Branham was because I become part of a Branham. Only way I become the human race is be one of them. And the only way that I can be a son of God is become part of God. Then I have to be borned of His Spirit. Amen. That's it. Sell all your denominational creeds and invest in Eternal Life.

L-67 Businessmen, businesswomen, you see through the Scripture, many others have been running through your mind, as you know, I have a way of knowing it, of other things. Sell all your creeds, and all your denominations, and come find Life. You're invited this morning...?... come. Don't turn away like he did. He was a very foolish businessman. So don't be like him.
Be like Paul. Sell all your popularity out. He said, "I never come to you with the great swelling words of my education, for--'cause if I did..." Then you'd trust in his ability, in his education. "But I come to you in the power and manifestations of the Holy Ghost, that your faith might rest in Christ."
May I repeat his words, or not repeat it, but say it this way: I didn't come representing an organization. I didn't come as a scholar. My words are chopped up. Many of you good people who got education might not even understand, it's so chopped up. But I come to you in the power of the Spirit, in the demonstration of the Holy Ghost which God vindicating His Word, that your faith will not rest in what man does, but what God has promised. Let us bow our heads.


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