<TITLE>20. Par 229-242</TITLE>L-229 "What did this Jesus of Nazareth done? Come and kicked them things out, and emptied them up, and told them they was 'a den of thieves.' Not much fruit of the Spirit there, is there? Your kind old priest never gets out of humor. This Fellow platted ropes together, and kicked the tables over, and run them out there, and looked angered upon them. That's not fruit of the Spirit. Your kind old priest! Who is going to say the last words over you? Your kind old priest. Who is going to permit, commit your soul to God? The kind old priest. See, fruit of the Spirit done it. And that Fellow had none of them!"

L-230   Now you say, "Brother Branham!" I could stay a sermon on this, but I won't.

L-231 What is the fruit of the Spirit? The manifestation of the promised Word. If they'd just a stopped to look, He did not have these things that they had, fruit of the Spirit, or anything. But the Word that was promised that day was manifesting Himself, that was exactly the Light of the hour. That was It, see.

L-232 No matter how much education, and how kind, how much you speak with tongues, how much kind, gentle, and everything you are; unless you accept that Word of the hour, when It's manifested before you, you're in the same predicament.

L-233 That might sound crude, I don't mean it that way, but it's Truth. Just, just believe It, see. All right. Now God forgive me. You see what I mean?

L-234   Who had the fruit of the Spirit? Jesus! He said, "Search the Scriptures. You think they... In Them you think you have Eternal Life. They testify of Me. They tell you Who I am." He never did come out and say Who He was. He didn't tell them. And why He got His congregation that great... He said, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His Blood," as I said last night, "you have no Life."

L-235 Why, my, that congregation said, "That Guy is crazy. What would doctors and science... Well, that Man trying to make cannibals." He never explained It. It was time for them to turn Him down.

L-236   Then He had a bunch of preachers hanging around him, borderline believers. He said, "Well, what are you going to say when you see Me ascend up from where I come from?"

L-237 "Come from? Well, we've seen the cradle You were born in, the city You were born in. We fished with You, out here on the hills. You, we walk with You, talk with You, and You come from...? Oh, my, now we know You're crazy."

L-238 But real, genuine faith don't move. Them disciples couldn't explain It, but they knowed there it was. See? It has to be something that God planted, had to be His thoughts before the foundation of the world, when He planned the whole redeemed. Ephesians 1:1-5, He planned the whole thing before the foundation of the world, His thoughts, and this is the attributes of His thoughts.

L-239   Look at Judas standing there, as a clergyman up here, "Yes, walking in the Light," had power to heal the sick. Matthew 10 proves it. He sent them out, and they come back rejoicing, and devils was subject unto them. Judas with them! That's right. He said, "Don't rejoice that the devils is subject; but your names are written on the Lamb's Book of Life." Judas was with them. But when it come to taking the full Word of God, he turned It down.

L-240 So does people, today! See? Jesus said, "Man shall live by every Word," not just one or two Words. Every Word!

L-241 You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I can go for part of It. And I can't go..."

L-242 Then you got the interpreter Eve had. Uh-huh. He took every bit of It, interpreted It right, but one little phrase. It's got to be every bit of It. If the Bible says It that way, it's of no private interpretation. It's the way the Bible said it. And if God caused all this heartaches and sorrows, and death of babies, and crying, and wars, and things, because His Word was doubted by one phrase, will He take you back in anything less than That? Think it over.


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