<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-35-4 The--the--the red light, as I've said, it settles the case. That's all. The red light tells you who goes. Now, no matter what anybody else says; it's what the red light says. You can really have a traffic jam if you don't--if you don't mind the red light. There must be an absolute. Yes, sir.
Just like to the Church, there's got to be an absolute. To the people in the church, you've got to have your absolute. But today, each church has its own absolute. See? And don't try to take...
"We Baptists believe this."
"We Methodists believe this."
"We Presbyterian believe this."
"We Pentecostals believe this."
That's all right, but why don't you take the rest of It? What's the matter with the rest of It?
"We Baptists believe in immersing."
That's good. What about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost now? What about speaking with tongues? What about gifts of healing? What about prophecy?
"Oh, no. We don't; that--that was for another age." Oh, boy.

L-36-4 Pentecostals, you say, "Well, we believe in speaking in tongues for the evidence."
Sure, speaking in tongues is all right, but that's still not the evidence. Many people speak in tongues (That's true.), and that's as far as they ever go. The devil can impersonate any gift it's got, any gift that's in the Bible.
Paul said, "Though I speak with tongue of men and angels; though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice; though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I have faith to move mountains; though I went to the seminary and learned all the knowledge there is to be learned, I'm still nothing."

L-36-6 It's the Person of Christ: Christ. Receive Him. And you can't receive Him without receiving His Word. The Word has to come first; then the Life comes into that Word and manifests that Word.
Didn't Jesus say, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me?" It was the Word of God being manifested. God was in Christ, reconciling, expressing Himself to the world what He was. That was--that was the absolute. That was the eternal absolute there.
Then you say, "Is that the eternal, Brother Branham?" That was. "Then what about today?"
Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also" The same absolute... All right.

L-37-1 Each one has their own absolute. Oh, my. It's just like it was in the days of the Judges: every man done what was right in his own sight. In the days of Judges every man had his own--his own absolute. He did just what he wanted to do, and that's the way it is now. Every man done right in his own sight.
Now, you know the reason they did that in Judges? This might shock just a little bit. But the reason they did it in Judges, because they had no prophet in them days for the Word of the Lord to come to, so every man could do what he wanted to in his own sight.
And that's exactly what's happened today. We don't have the prophet in these days of denominations, but God promised us one. See, see? He did. In the last days He would rise up and send Elijah back on the scene again, and he would turn the hearts of the children back to the faith of the fathers--back to the original Pentecost. You know He said that.

L-37-4 Now, I know you'll refer, as He did there to John (over in--in Matthew 11th chapter and the 6th verse, I believe it is), when they said, "Who do you think this man was--this John?"
He said, "If you can receive it, this is he that was spoken of, 'Behold I send My messenger before My face.'" That's Malachi 3, not Malachi 4. But remember, if that was the Malachi 4, then the Word failed, because He said--but just at this time the whole world would be burnt, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes of the wicked. No. Don't mix it up, brethren; make It say just exactly what It says. That's right. He promised it in the last days, and it'll be right in the midst.


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