<TITLE>08. Par 63-76</TITLE>L-63   But notice now, there is believers. No matter what happens, what takes place, how hard it is, how mysterious, they believe, anyhow. That's like the man or woman that is prayed for. They believe it. There is nothing going to make them change their mind. They are genuine believers. And nothing, no matter how hard it seems, what this is, and this don't happen, that don't have nothing to do with It. They believe It, anyhow.

L-64 Now, He might have said many things that the disciples didn't believe, or didn't see, but they believed It, anyhow. They went on along with It, because they was sure the Scripture had thoroughly identified Jesus to be that Messiah.

L-65   And I believe the Scripture today thoroughly identifies this great move of God in the last days, of the Holy Ghost, to be Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe the Scripture thoroughly identifies It. I don't care what anyone else thinks about It, we believe That to be the Truth because It's thoroughly identified.

L-66 You say, "Brother Branham, I know you understand It." I do not understand It. I just believe It. I can't understand these things. I don't try to. You can't understand God, He's got to be accepted by faith. And faith is something you believe, that you can't explain. There you are. There is the Truth.

L-67   Now, there is another group that always hangs around, and that's the make-believer. Now, that make-believer is considered the hypocrite.

L-68 Now let's take a make-believer. It was Judas. He was the make-believer. And the make-believer hangs on and on, trying to find some way that they can get something on It. They stick around long enough just to find out if they can't find a little fault, then go out and expose it somewhere. "We want to find what kind of a gimmick, what rabbit foot you got that rubbed behind your ears. What is the gimmick?" so they can impersonate It, or something. That's make-believers. That's Judas-tarian.

L-69   That's the unbelievers, the make-believers, and the believers. Them three still exist everywhere across the world. They've always have, and they always will. Now think of it tonight, here and on this tape to those that'll hear. Them three classes that's sitting, they are three classes of those people always gathering.

L-70 One, that don't make any difference what comes or what goes, they still believe It. They are thoroughly convinced.

L-71 Others will believe so much of It, and then don't want to believe the rest. That's unbelievers.

L-72 And then the make-believers is the ones that hangs on, just sticking around until they can find something. They say, "Uh-huh, there you are. That's what it is. Uh-huh, there, I thought there was something. There you are!"

L-73 But a real believer, that don't stagger him at all. Nothing staggers him.

L-74   What about Jesus standing there, spit over His face, and blood on His face, and a crown of thorns upon Him, and--and all that He had there, a mockery crowd, and so forth? Well, what would the unbeliever think about that, or the make-believer? Just sold Him out. And, you find out, the make-believer is the one who sells you out. He is the one that ruins your ministry, is that make-believer.

L-75   But the real believer, no matter what, they are thoroughly satisfied. They are thoroughly convinced, because the Life that's in them has already become Christ. It is Christ. It's no more you, but Christ that lives in you. And, no matter, "There is nothing," Paul said, "present, future, death, peril, nakedness, whatever it is, can separate us from that love of God that's in Christ." No, many, how many of this, that, or the other, rise, how many Doctors of Divinity can try to explain It away and say It's for another day, that don't separate you at all. You're there to stay. It's you in Christ, you're no more your own. That's you, you and God, alone.

L-76   And as soon as the unbeliever can get a loophole, he is trying to get away anyhow, so away he goes.


<A HREF="P9">Next Page</A>