<TITLE>12. Par 122-135</TITLE>L-122 And you remember, it doesn't take a whole lot. You know what caused all this sickness, and all this trouble, and death, and sorrow, of six thousand years? Because one woman just failed to believe one little sphere, little phase of God's Word, just one little iota. She believed most of it. Satan told her the Truth about most of It. "These things you'll do, and this." And then said, "Surely you'll not die."

L-123 But just to disbelieve one little iota, caused all this trouble. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Do you think disbelieving one iota will take you back, after it's caused all this? ["No."] No, sir.

L-124 We've got to come to the Word. That's the only, and That is God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

L-125   And, see, when God made man, when He begin to brood over the earth, up come, like Easter flowers, up come grass, up come species, rising higher and higher. The great Holy Spirit, brooding! Or, brooding means "to be mothering, cooing." "Coo, coo." The flowers come up. The Father said, "That's wonderful. Just keep it up." And He brooded. And after while, out come birds. And the next thing, out come animals. He kept getting greater, greater, greater, greater.

L-126 And, finally, the earth reflected the reflection of Him that was brooding: God. And he was in the image of God. Never did anything come higher than a man, even to our beloved sisters, a woman. She is not in the original creation. She's the byproduct of the man, a part of him; and they're one, in Christ. Oh, what a great lesson we have here right before us now, that we could spend hours on, throw light upon! Notice.

L-127   Now we find out that, then, when this man reflected God, then God come down in His own reflection, in the form of Man, Jesus Christ. And God was in Christ. The God, in Christ, reflecting Himself to the earth, what He was: a Saviour, a God, a Healer. God, displaying His real attributes, through a Man, which was His reflection. And God, in order to get this, couldn't come through sex, which first started the ball rolling, but He brought it through a virgin birth.

L-128 Can't you see that, that first sin, what it was? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Many won't agree with that, and you holler about "the serpent's seed," but there it is. See?

L-129   Now, the reflection, God reflecting Himself in Christ. But then when this man was lost...

L-130 Today, when man is showed, by the Word, that he shouldn't do these things, sometimes he's loyal to a church.

L-131 If there's any of my Catholic friends here this morning, pardon this just a moment. My people are all Catholic too, you know, Roman Catholic.

L-132 Now notice. When this priest come to me, about many great healings, and he said, "Your background is Catholic. Why is it you're not Catholic?"
I said, "I am catholic."
And he said, "Oh, I can't believe that."

L-133 I said, "Don't your church teach that this Bible, that Jesus Christ established the first catholic church, and these apostles were catholic?"
"Yes."
I said, "Then I believe just what they wrote."

L-134 He said, "But, Mr. Branham," said, "the church keeps changing. He gave Peter the authority to--to have the keys, and he can bind, and the apostolic succession of the popes, and so forth."

L-135 I said, "I got all your writings, or most of them, in there, Facts Of Our Faith, and so forth. But," I said, "look. If those men who wrote that Bible, walked side by side with Jesus, say they were catholic and they wrote that Bible, don't you think they would know more about the will of God, and the commands of God, than what this modern bunch would do today?" And I said, "Notice, if it is the Church, then when they obeyed what God said, originally, and it is the Word of God, look at the miracles and signs, and so forth, they had. And you don't have them at all, today. It's an evidence that God is not with you."
He said, "Mr. Branham, we're not supposed to argue."


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