<TITLE>10. Par 102-115</TITLE>L-102   Now, Paul said, in the Scriptures, like training a soldier, a soldier to a sound. Now, a soldier has got to learn the sounds of his, of the bugle or the trumpet. He doesn't know if the trumpet go, blows, whether to--to charge or whether to retreat. If he doesn't know the difference, what kind of a mixed-up army would you have? The enemy would certainly triumph over a bunch of soldiers that were no better trained than that. Amen.

L-103 That's what's the matter with our churches today. We're trained them on creeds, differenting one to the other.

L-104 We got to be united. We've got to know a trumpet. "Then which is the trumpet?" they say. The Gospel trumpet, that's It. The Word of the living God is the Trumpet. Don't mix nothing with It.

L-105 Don't have somebody play a French harp, and the other one blow a bugle. Nobody knows what to do. It brings a confusion.

L-106 And Paul was talking about training a man to a sound. And just as that sound is, he knows exactly what to do, because the bugler has got orders, and from the chief captain. And when he sounds this trumpet, the army knows just exactly the place to--to advance, and where to withdraw, and whether to turn right or left, or what to do, by the sounding of the trumpet.

L-107   Now, army, war, it's always been war. We never joined the Church, or come into the Church, to come to a picnic. We must realize we are coming to a battleground.

L-108 I never come, for people to pat me on the back and say, "Brother Branham, you're a wonderful person." No, sir. I come there with a shield on. I don't need a shield for that. I come with a helmet and the armor. I come to fight, fight every inch of the ground.

L-109 God told Joshua, "Every place the soles of your foot treads upon, that I give you." So, footsteps meant possession.

L-110 And when the church gets to a place, it compromises with creeds, and compromises with the Word, and compromises with the world, I mean, then it's losing ground. It's taking back.

L-111   What we need tonight is soldiers to possess every Divine promise of this Bible, that God promised to the Church, whole armor of God, and to stand. It's what we need, soldiers; not get a uniform for a dress parade, it's always different. When a man...

L-112 Any nation, we got spies through every nation. We got German spies here. We got English spies here. We got--we got spies over in England. What are they trying to do? They're trying to find out what kind of a material, what kind of a bomb, the other one has got. F.B.I. is pretty near every nation. They're watching, to see. That's how they survive. They watch and see what kind of a bomb the other one gets. Then they come by and make it a little better, or make something to counteract it. They don't trust one another, in the nations, 'cause that shows that nations are shaking. Why, England would blow us up, in a hour, if we'd cross their path, or we'd blow them up. Just takes somebody up at the head of the thing there, to get a little drink or two, too many, or fall out with something, and then away it goes.

L-113   Here not long ago, they'd say, a little piece of goods, "Made in Japan," during the war. They would slam it on the floor, and walk around, patriotic. And now you'll pay a bigger price for it than anything you buy in the nation. What happened? That pay back the lives of those boys that died over there? Certainly not.

L-114 What is it? I don't care how much you fight the material things, you're going, it won't mean one thing. It'll shake. But there is one fight that you can get into and gain grounds that can never be taken away from you. That's the Gospel sound of the trumpet of God's Word, has possessed the gifts and promises that He give to the Church. Certainly is. Now, we find--we find, giving this trumpet sound.

L-115   Now, every nation tries to arm their boys with the very best of defense that they can have. Now, I know, sometimes these armors are not easy to pack.


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