<TITLE>16. Par 154-168</TITLE>L-154 And He gives us the sign, of the Holy Ghost, that He has recognized us as believers. For, "Repent, and be baptized everyone in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you!"

L-155   Get the point now. The Jews, no matter how much they could prove that they were circumcised, but the token had to be showed. If not there, the covenant was not effective. It wasn't.

L-156 Same now, same thing. No matter what you do, no matter how much you can--you can explain the Bible. You might be a Bible student. Oh, my! You might--you might say, "I'm a believer, and everything." But still the Token is required. A Bible student, you say, "I was a good person, Brother Branham."

L-157 "I don't care what anybody says, you can't beat that man. I never seen him do anything wrong, in my life." That don't have that to do with God. [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] There is one requirement, and that alone!

L-158 And you cannot do that. You cannot put the blood on the lintel of the door, where, the token could not be unless the lamb died. And the blood was a positive sign that the lamb died. No make-belief; the lamb died!

L-159   And the Holy Ghost is a positive Token that your Lamb died and you received the Token upon yourself, for His very Life is in you. See? There is no make-belief. There is no put-on. There is no impersonation. It's there! You know it. You know it. The world knows it. The Token is there.

L-160 No matter how good the person was. Might a-been a Bible student. It might be a... It might be any kind of a--a good church member. It might be a good person. It might be a--a denominational head. It might be the--the hierarchy of Rome. I--I don't know who it is, it don't--it don't make it anything.

L-161   But, Israel, any Bible student knows that Israel was a type of the Church, exactly, to the promised land. And that's where She is journeying.

L-162 But when the evening time come, and the journey was on, there was one solemn requirement. No matter how much Jew he had been, how well he had kept his crops, how well he had taken care of the neighbors, how much he had done, how good a member he was, how much tithes he paid. All these things was fine. That was okay. He was a good man, recognized among his people, as a good man. But without the token, of the blood, he perished.

L-163   Oh, may God help me, both present and in the tapes, to pin that down!

L-164 No matter, you might have preached the Gospel, you might have cast out devils, you might have spoke with tongues, you might have shouted, danced in the Spirit, but without the Token.
You say, "Can I do it?"

L-165 Paul said you could. "Though I speak with tongue like man and angels, though I give all my goods to feed the poor, my body to be burned as a sacrifice, I have faith to move mountains, and these things, I am nothing yet." Don't rely upon that. It's the Token! No matter how much you've done, how good you are; when the wrath of God flashes, it'll only recognize the Token.

L-166   It is a Token that a price has been paid, that's been required. And the price that was paid was the Life of Jesus Christ, and He gave His Life. And His Spirit comes back upon you, as a Token that you are received. And you carry the Token with you, day and night, not just on Sunday. It's all the time, you have the Token. "When I... The blood shall be a token unto you."

L-167 You say, "I still believe. I am a believer." That's all right. But if you reject the Token, then how you going to be a believer? It speaks against you. See, it speaks against your testimony, that you do.

L-168 Bible student, good person, church member, ever what you are, doesn't mean a thing. Yes, sir. Maybe your father is a preacher. Maybe your--your mother was a saint. May... That's--that's okay, they have to answer for themselves. As I have said, try...


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