<TITLE>07. Par 54-62</TITLE>L-54   And every man or woman that has an experience with God, has met this same Pillar of Fire upon the sacred grounds of your heart. "There is no theologian, no devil, no nothing," Paul said, "nothing present, nothing future, death, sickness, sorrow, can separate us from that love of God, that's in Christ Jesus." It's a tie post. You know something happened. No matter how much science raise up and says this, that, or the other, you are tied. You and God become one. He is in you, and you are in Him. "At that day you'll know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me." You are tied to Him.

L-55   And Paul had a--a Christ-centered life. It was a different life than he once had. He once had an educational conception; but now he has got a Christ-centered life, an absolute. No matter how much Agrippa could say, "You, you've gone crazy, Paul. You lost your mind. You, you studied too much."
He said, "I am not mad."

L-56 And then he got onto Agrippa, to such a way till he said, "Thou almost persuadest me to be a Christian?"

L-57 He said, "I wish you were, only besides... as I am, but these bonds."

L-58 It makes you do things, when you get a Christ-centered life like Paul had, ordinarily you wouldn't do. Now look. Ordinarily, that man trained in all of the--the Scriptures and things, ordinarily he would have followed that line he was trained in. But when he become... and made Christ his absolute, his ultimate, then there was a different life. He did different. He done things crazy, to what he once was trained to do. And it'll do the same thing.

L-59   If the church would get away from that Council of Churches, and come back and make God's Word their ultimate, make God's Word their tie post, that would do it. But they're tying to a man-made achievement. And it's bound to fall. Well, the Bible said they would do it. But there is going to be a Bride that's been elected since the foundation of the world, that's going to be tied to that tie post.

L-60   I can see Eternity break, come down into time, since Eden. And, when It did, there come a line of Blood, all the way up unto Calvary; and from Calvary, tied with this line, and goes on to the tie post, Jesus. And someday when He comes to claim His own, everyone that's tied to that ultimate will be raised up into Eternity. Why? They have been in Eternity all the time. They were predestinated in Eternity. They are part of God. They were in His thinking at the beginning. And when that big rope is pulled, of the line of Blood, that Token I was speaking of, when it comes up from the earth, everyone that was included in that Blood will be dropped right up into Eternity again. But the only way it'll be, will be tied to that absolute, Jesus Christ. It's absolute! Not an achievement of man; but God raised Him up from the dead, and He is an absolute. And we know He's alive, because here He is with us in the Power of His resurrection, doing the same thing He did when He was here on earth.

L-61   I'm tied to that Ultimate. That's the end of all strife. I'm tied to it. That's my life. I was a sinner when Christ saved me. I met Something. And since That came into me, it's been--it's been different. And I'm tied to it, everything that I am is tied right there. And then God separating His life, and let me live in Him, and Him in me, then we're tied. I...

L-62 It don't make any difference what others want to believe. To the individual, you are tied to That. [Brother Branham pats his Bible--Ed.] That's your ultimate. That's the... that's the last word. And then if He is the Word, then This must be the last word. This must settle it. Whatever That says, That's that scarlet thread. That is Christ. And anything contrary to That, I know nothing about it. That's what we want to know, is what this Word says; for I am tied to Christ, and Christ is the Word. You get it now? [Congregation says, "Amen."]


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