<TITLE>37. Par 429-438</TITLE>L-429 No wonder they can't get to first base out there, as we call it; excuse the expression. No wonder they don't get nowhere but go back to a denomination and make a bunch of dressed-up, polished-up people, intellectual, educated. Never get anywhere, because that's what they display, "I am Methodist. I am Presbyterian." That's all they are.

L-430   But believers take the Token! And what Jesus begin to do in Galilee, He continues to do now through His display of the Token, of the Holy Spirit back upon the Church. For, it was not the acts of the apostles, it was the acts of the Holy Ghost in the apostles, and that was a Token.

L-431 They said they had to take heed to Peter and James, as they... Peter and John, as they passed through the gate called Beautiful, seeing they were ignorant. They might have said, "Hit, hain't, tote, tear, fetch, carry. I'll tell you about this." See? They might have had all kinds of grammar that they couldn't understand. They might not have known the difference, all the--the... all the mathematics of the Scripture. But they had to notice they had been with Jesus. They had displayed that Token, because the same Spirit that was upon Him, before His crucifixion, was upon them after the resurrection. Amen!

L-432   Then that makes Him Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." There is how we know He lives. Because why? How do we know we live? Because He lives. And because we know we live, is because we're like Him, and we are in Him. And He said, "Because I live, you live also. I am He," in Revelation, "that was dead, and alive forevermore." And if--if we die to ourself and become alive in Him, we're alive forevermore. And then His Life in us is just like the life of anything else, It displays what He was. And that makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-433 Now how can you, when they deny That? Don't you see, "dead works"? Serve the living God, by the Eternal... I mean, the everlasting covenant of the Life that was in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Now going on, to end, I... Well, I believe, we'll just stop. See, displaying the Token of His grace, His love! Now, without this Token applied...

L-434   Now, it is a Token. What is a Token? The Token is a sign of a debt been paid. A price required has been paid. The price of our salvation was death, see, and no one could pay it but Christ. And not the--the spirit of a denomination, not the spirit of a pope, not the spirit of some man or some saint; but the Spirit of Jesus Christ, upon the Church, is a Token that the debt has been paid and He's met every requirement that God required, and we and Him are one. "That day, you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me."

L-435 Apply the Token! Apply the Token of His resurrection. That, because He was raised up for our justification, He has raised us also with Him. And now we set in Heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, under the fellowship of the Token.

L-436   As Israel set there, and the screams was going on, out in the street, they didn't have one thing to worry about. Only thing, just be sure the blood, the token, was showing.

L-437 That's the only thing we have to worry right now. There is trouble in the--in the way, making, friends. It ain't going to be long, trouble is striking. You know that. Be sure the Token is showing. And the Token is the Holy Spirit. "For by one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, and made partakers of His glory," on our Land, Home, march now to the promised Land.

L-438 Do you love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You believe the Token? ["Amen."] How many would like to say, "Oh, Brother Branham, pray for me, that I will come under this Token"? ["Amen."]
Let us bow our heads.


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