<TITLE>17. Par 182-191</TITLE>L-182 He said, "That won't hold up anymore." And when they heard this... "They was to believe on Jesus that was to come." And when they heard this, they were baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul laid his hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost came upon them; and they spoke in tongues and magnified God.

L-183   Paul said also, over in another chapter, he said, "If--if an Angel from Heaven preaches any other Gospel than This that you heard me preach, let him be accursed, whether he's a bishop, cardinal, whatever it might be." Yes! "If an Angel from Heaven," let alone a cardinal, or a bishop, or a preacher, "that preach any other than this policy of Eternal Life through Jesus Christ, let him be accursed."
You said, "Brother Branham, you're getting beside..."

L-184 I know right where I am, see. I'm not lost. I know right where I am. I may be excited, but as I said here the other night...
Someone said, "You are going crazy."
I said, "Well, just let me alone, I feel better this way than I did the other way, so I--I have Life."

L-185 Because, it's Life! It's foolishness to the world, but to me it's grand. I'm saved, where I wasn't saved. I now have the resurrection of Christ in me. And there is many other here, brethren, who know that Truth; you have It in you, the resurrection! Yes.

L-186   They went up, these policyholders, to draw dividend. Oh, my! Ministering brethren, let's do that this morning, let's draw dividends now. "The promise," Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, "the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, the Gentiles," listen closely, brethren, "even as many as the Lord our God shall call." And He is sure to call every one who has their name on the Lamb's Book of Life. The dividends, it's for all, yes, "For you, and your children, to them that's far off." And the interest on the policy was paid off, on the Day of Pentecost.

L-187   Now, the rich young Paul met the same One, for He remained the same after His death. He is still the same.

L-188 Saul of Tarsus, a well-scholared man, scholarly man; pardon me. And he--he was a fine man. He had been taught by Gamaliel, the great Hebrew teacher. His parents were rich. Paul was kind of a rich man. He could speak in many languages. He had an education. His ambition was to be a--a lawyer; one of the lawyers, or a priest, or something in the... or a lawyer, rather, in his church. Smart, he knew the Word. He was rich, and he had his ambitions.

L-189   When he heard that bunch of carrying-on, noise and screaming, and speaking with tongues, and, why, he thought, "That's ridiculous, to the society of Jerusalem. That ought to be stopped." So he got letters from the high priest. He--he went around making havoc of the church. So he went into the cardinal or the bishop, or whatever you want to call him, the high priest, and got a letter from him, placed it within his possession and went down to Damascus.

L-190   But, you see, the church seems to have all the authority, with the keys to the Kingdom, and everything, and they had chosen Matthias to take Judas' place. But look what a foolish choice man can make. There is not a thing he ever done. He might have been a good man. No doubt be was a good man. No doubt he was a humble servant of Christ. But, you see, that don't always spell God's choosing.

L-191 God chose a little critic of the church, a little Jew, the hook-nose, and enough temper to fight a buzz saw, and he would. There he was, on his road down. He is going down and arrest them holy-rollers. He'll put them in chains. He'll bind them. He's got authorities from his bishop. He's going to do it.


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