<TITLE>07. Par 67-74</TITLE>L-67 It's too bad, it seems to be repeating again. But, it's, the world remains the same. Spirits doesn't change, they leave from one group to another, one man to another; evil spirits, and good Spirit from God. The Holy Spirit remains just the same as It was when It fell afresh at the Day of Pentecost, when God, in that great Pillar of Fire, separated Himself among His people.

L-68   But in this Jesus, he saw something that no other man had, he saw God living in a human being.

L-69 And then, as intelligent thinkers, this morning, if that same Life that was in Christ is in you, how can It keep from living the same thing, and being the same thing? It must do it. So we might get emotionally worked up, we might get so in-documented with some creed or something, that we would think that that was it. But when we read what He was, then that's what He is today. What God was in Christ, your Brother Redeemer, that's what He is in you as a redeemed child.

L-70   Jesus saw this young man, and He loved him. Now there is one thing that we seem to lack a lot of, today, because the people that doesn't love us, it seem like we don't want to love them. Since I've been amongst the Full Gospel people, and that's one thing that I find, until I met this Business Men's group, that the organizations of the Pentecostal beliefs seem to isolate themselves. That isn't expressing the Life of Jesus Christ. He loved all, and He loved this young businessman. Though he turned Him down, yet He loved him.

L-71 And the young man found something in Jesus that he didn't find nowhere else, and was invited to receive this that He had, but the price was too great. And though he had seen that the investment that he was asked to invest in, it cost him all of his worldly possessions, for Jesus told him, "Go sell what you have."

L-72   Now, men and women, don't--don't misunderstand me. I don't mean we don't have to have money. But when you make that your God, when that's what you're depending on, it's got to perish. And today, too many times, that businessmen and women are trying to see how much they can get a hold of, where we ought to be seeing how much we can let loose of. What a difference it is today, in the Christian realms, and in the denominational churches, and so forth, of all of them. How much difference it seems to be, today, than the early Pentecostal church. Today they seem to try to brag on, "I got a fleet of Cadillacs, and I'm spiritual because I own so much of the goods of the world." And we see that too much exalted, even amongst our brethren. The pentecost of the early days sold what they had and distributed to the poor, and among them.

L-73   A young fellow not long ago, in Jamaica, where we was at the race tracks, I was with the Full Gospel Business Men. I made a remark something like that, one night, to a gathering of the businessmen that had gathered from all over the islands, down all--all over the islands. And this young singer come to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, your statement wasn't too great, tonight, upon what you said about the pentecostals selling what they had."

L-74 I was preaching on critics of pentecost, and saying that that's where they had a right to criticize that one thing. I said, "You businessmen are always telling how to get rich. Those men know how to get rich. They're already rich. The thing you want to sell them is Jesus Christ, something that they don't have."


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