<TITLE>11. Par 132-146</TITLE>L-132 Well, that's about the way we've gotten. "We can be an organization like the rest of them." And pentecost is not an organization. It's an experience. "We can be this, that, or other. We're just like the rest of them." You, you get more members, but what have you got when you got them. See? Mustn't do that. That's wrong. What are you doing? You're doing the same rashal mistake that this young rich man did. See? Yes. They put Him out because of their love of the world.

L-133   Now, let us investigate some of these people back there, and what they did. And let's look at the... where we're at today.

L-134 And now someone said, not long ago, as I told you. "What? You, being a preacher, why you around with them businessmen?" I told them I was an assurance salesman of Eternal Life. So, there is.

L-135 And that's what Jesus was trying. This young man had seen something in Him, now, that was different, and he knowed He had Eternal Life. So instead of going to his rabbi, he come to that Person that he seen was exactly God's vindicated Word.

L-136 God and Christ was the same. Cause, Christ said, "It's not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father."

L-137   And as I preached over at the Central Assemblies, or the First Assembly, the other night, how God's great nature projected Jesus. See, all the rest of the nature was fallen. He couldn't take a prophet, because he was born of sexual desire, and he was a fallen nature. But God, in His love, projected One without sin. And therefore this One was so perfect with the Father, just a body that was here, called the Son, that the Word was Him. John explains it in the 1st chapter. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh." See?

L-138   A way now, "The Word of the Lord came to the prophets," but Jesus was different from that. He was the Word. See? The prophet only could say what--what was put in his mouth to say. But Jesus was that Word, that the entire Word of God could flow through Him. Without... And He could create, stop the winds and the waves, and whatmore, because it was God, always in the Word.

L-139 Now God is trying to find a Church that He can project His Word through. You see, God watches over His Word, to--to--to vindicate It.

L-140 And how can He vindicate It when we deny that It's the Truth. See?

L-141   So, these priests, with their word, though in their own way of thinking they were exactly right; Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, and whatever they were. It's come to that time again. See? Each one in his own thinking, they just do what's right, like it was in the day of Judges.

L-142 Well, there's an ultimate somewhere, and that ultimate is God's Word, 'cause He was the Word.

L-143 Now, we find that they loved these things better than they loved God. The Bible said they would. Now we're living in that day. Now, if a prophecy said a certain thing, we see it happening, then we--we got to know where our mistake is. We got to know where we got to bypass. Now, the book of Revelations, the 3rd chapter, teaches this, that we would be in this Age. And here we are.

L-144   Now, how about some of those, if we had time to stay on this a long time? But let's hurry, to get through, 'cause I ought to have been gone an hour ago.

L-145 But look here. This is first, of course, the Word of God. Now let us examine some of the policy holders of this Eternal Life and see what it cost them, holders of the Eternal Word.

L-146 Now, "Brother Branham, you said, 'Eternal Word.'" Yes, sir.


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