<TITLE>15. Par 145-161</TITLE>L-145   Say, "Oh, sure, we want--we want Jesus." Certainly. We think we got Him, and all like that.

L-146 But I wonder if that Rapture could pass, and we'd be left alone one day, then wonder where it's all at, if it'd come by real secretly, you know. And that's what it's coming, like a thief in the night. You'll... Ninety-nine out of every half a million, every million, will never know the Rapture takes place. It'll be gone and they won't even know nothing about it. Jesus said so. So that makes it right. See? Certainly. It'll come like a thief in the night, and be stoled away.

L-147 Like that book I read one time. What was that guy? Romeo and Juliet, or something like that, see, he come and got her at nighttime.

L-148   That's the way Jesus do. When the world is just lolling in sleep, like the Bible said, the Laodicean age, He will slip in and get that Bride. Then, all them that's resurrected, down through them ages, had been down the ages, they'll all go to Heaven in the Bride.

L-149 Then the judgments will come. The church will say, "Well, wait a minute. I thought there was supposed to be a Bride, a Coming of the Lord and the Bride."

L-150 "It's been gone for a long time. See? You knew nothing about it. See? It come secretly."

L-151 Why? We say, "Oh, I belong to the church. I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm Pentecostal." That don't mean one thing to God.

L-152 It's no more than a doctor saying, "You got cancer, its advanced stage." And that--that don't have nothing to do with the disease. That's just naming it. It's a devil see, "cancer." If you'd say, "That's a dove. That's a buzzard. That's some sort of a vulture." That--that, that ain't got anything to do, what... And, see, that don't cure it. That don't kill it. It just says what it is.

L-153   Just say, you say, "I'm--I'm a Christian. I'm a..." Only by profession, maybe. See, our--our lives speak so loud that our testimony is not even heard; our lives, our action, our morals among us.
"They're going to have a revival over here."
"Who is having it?"
"The Baptists."

L-154 "Ah, we'll have nothing to do with that." And maybe God has got a message there for us.
"Who is having it?"

L-155 "The First Assembly, the Second Assembly, or the--or the Jesus' Name, or the--or the Church of God, or--or something."
"Oh, well, we--we, we're not in that group."

L-156 We are brethren. Dare anybody to separate the heritage of God? They got the Holy Ghost like you got It, done the same things you did when you got It. Sure.

L-157 But you see why I like this Full Gospel Business Men? It gives an avenue, that I express these things, see, say, "This is It." We are brethren. "We are not divided. All one Body are we," see, as the poet said.

L-158   Now, "That little door of my own, my own private life, now, that's all right. I'll be a member of your church. I'll join the Full Gospel Business Men. But, now, don't go to telling me I have to receive this Holy Ghost and carry on like that. See? That's that own private life." See? You'll never get the Lordship of Jesus doing that. He'll just turn right around and walk out the door.

L-159 What would you do in a case like that, if somebody, if you went to a home, and they said, "Stand here at the door. State your business"? Well, you'd say, "Thank you," turn out the door. So would Jesus. Certainly. That's the reason the church is left, setting cold, see, just the way it is. Don't let the Full Gospel Business Men ever get in that stage.

L-160   When you hear a Message, and hear a knock [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.], open up and say, "Lord, what is This all about?" When you see a man... We have a lot of impersonators. But when you see a genuine!

L-161 What does an impersonator mean? What does a bogus dollar mean, when you pick up a dollar that's bogus? It means it was made off of a real one. There's got to be a real one, to make that a bogus.


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