<TITLE>08. Par 74-90</TITLE>L-74 You can't even do it when you say you "belong to the Pentecostal association of churches." You can't do that. You mustn't do that, because it's not. We find out that when our first Pentecostal association, the General Council, was set in order, it wasn't very long till they began to break from there, and break from here, and issues, and doctrines. And now just look at it, everywhere. See? It goes to show that it's uncertain. Those who trust in just organization alone, it's--it's uncertain.

L-75   Now, you would say, "Brother Branham, you're taking us out on a big limb out here. You're painting an awful dark picture." And I intended to do that. I wanted to do it.

L-76 I did it for a purpose, that I might say this. Is there anything certain? Yes. There is one thing that's certain. Oh, I'm so glad of that, that there's one thing that you can put your confidence in, and be sure that it's right. Oh, when everything else is gone, This will be standing. If you'll read Saint Matthew 24:35, He said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My word shall not fail." God has a certain foundation.

L-77   An old fellow, said one time, an old darkie down South. He packed a Bible, and he couldn't read. And they said, "Why are you packing it for, Sam?"

L-78 He said, "It's--it's the Holy Bible." Said, "It's written on it." And said, "I believe It, from c'ver to c'ver, and believe the c'ver also," he said, "because it's got 'Holy Bible' wrote on It."

L-79 And the fellow was talking to him, said, "You don't believe all is in It?"
Said, "Yes, sir. I sure do."

L-80 He said, "Now, well, you mean you'd do anything that Bible said do?"
He said, "Yes, sir."

L-81 Said, "What if that Bible said for Sam to jump through that stone wall there? What would you do?"
He said, "I'd jump."

L-82 He said, "Well, now. How you going to get through the stone wall without a hole being there?"

L-83 He said, "If the Bible said for Sam to jump, there would be a hole there when Sam got there." So, that, that's just about right. There would be a hole there.

L-84 Only thing you have to do is take your stand upon God's Word, and God will make the way for the rest of it. Oh, that great foundation.

L-85   I believe He said, over in Luke, I believe it was, where coming down off the mountain, He said to the disciples, "Who does men say I the Son of man am?"
And one said, "'Jeremias,' and 'the prophets,' and so forth."
And He said, "But who do you say that I am?"

L-86 That's when Peter made that notable statement, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

L-87 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. But My Father which is in Heaven revealed this to you. And upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against It."

L-88 What is it then? Upon the revealed truth of God's Word. For, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among." And it was revealed to Peter that that was God's vindicated Word. Amen.

L-89 That's the reason He could say, "Who can condemn Me of sin? Who can accuse me? Everything the Word has written of me, I've performed it." God had vindicated it, that He was the Word. Oh, that's it. God manifested. The Word says so, and then God makes it real, brings it to pass, shows it.

L-90   Years ago, when they said to the church, "There is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That's just an emotion that people got themselves worked up." But those who received It, knowed that was the truth. They knowed God was real. And it's been proven, until, today, the Pentecostal move of God across the nations, has brought more into Christ than all the rest of them has.


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