<TITLE>08. Par 69-77</TITLE>L-69 Would He look like the pictures that we see, the--the painters paint? No. That's the psychological painting that some man had, his conception of what Christ would look like. And if we had go to by that, which one would be right? There's Hofmann, Sallman, and how many more, all different descriptions of Him, so you'd be a bit confused what He would look like. Would He look like Hofmann's painting of Him, or Sallman, or some of the rest of them? We don't know. If Hofmann is right, then Sallman is wrong. See? Sallman is right, then Hofmann is wrong, and, see, you wouldn't know what to look for.

L-70   But how would we identify Him? Well, we would identify Him the same way that He identified Himself in the beginning, right, by His works, by what He done. "If I do not the works of My Father," He said, "then don't believe Me. But if I do the works, though you don't believe, believe the works, for they are they that testify of Me. They tell what I am." We'd have to find out then, that, what made Him manifested. What identified Jesus Christ in yesterday, would be the same thing that would have to identify Him today.

L-71 Now, we Methodists would think our church identifies Him. We would think that. Our... We Baptists would think our church identified Him. And we Pentecosts... See? I'm all of them. See? That, we would. We think that ours identified Him.

L-72   Reminds me, I was in Little Rock, Arkansas. There might be some of my fine Arkansas friends here. They... One night, at the Robinson Memorial Auditorium, there was a--a beggar set on the street, that had crutches, and he sold pencils. And he had got healed. And the next day be was walking around, with these crutches on his shoulder, testifying. And he was up in the third balcony, and he was just taking the whole floor up there. And we couldn't hardly preach because of the noise. And he was shouting and carrying on, been all up-and-down the streets, in every business place, testifying, setting on the corner. And he was called out, in the audience, and the Lord Jesus made him well.

L-73 And so he said, "I want to ask you a question, Brother Branham."
I said, "What is it, sir?"

L-74 He said, "You know..." He was a Nazarene. He said, "I heard you preaching, and I thought you was a Nazarene." And said, "I seen so many Pentecostals around, then somebody told me you was a Pentecostal." And said, "Then I heard somebody, said that you belonged to Missionary Baptist Church." Said, "What about this?"
I said, "It's all true. I'm a Pentecostal Nazarene Baptist."

L-75 So, that, that's--that's it. See? We are born of the Spirit of God. Then, we are brothers and sisters in Christ, and these brands don't mean nothing.

L-76   I used to herd cattle, and up here, and where I worked on a ranch, and--and up in Colorado. And the Hereford Association grazes the valley there in the Troublesome River. And we got a drift fence, and where the herders put their cattle up. The ranger stands there, counting those cattle as they go through. I've stood there, many time, with my leg over the horn of a saddle, watching the rangers. Now, there's all kinds of brands goes through there. Every brand on the valley goes through. The ranger wasn't noticing the brands, but he was watching for the blood tag. Now, that blood tag meant that that had to be a thoroughbred Hereford or it could not graze on that from that valley. It could not go in without a blood tag.

L-77 I thought, one day, setting there. I got to shouting. I said, "You know, that's the way it's going to be at the Judgment. He ain't going to notice what brand they got, but whether we got the Blood tag. That's the thing." When--when He sees the Blood, we can go in. That's all. See? And our brands will be long forgotten, at that time. That's right. And I'm so glad of that. It's true. Now, what...


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