<TITLE>03. Par 16-27</TITLE>L-16   "Then, besides that, when your father and mother was married, who joined them together as husband and wife? Your godly old priest. Who was it come to your father when he was in need and had owed some money on his farm, that the mortgagers was going to take it. Who stood by him? Your kind old priest. Who stood by your mother in the room there when she was giving birth to you? Kind old priest. Who comes to you when you're sick and needy? Your kind old priest. Who was it blessed you and committed you to God, and circumcised you the eighth day? Your kind old priest. When your father and mother was about to divorce, who brought them back together, held them together? Your kind old priest. When there is trouble in the neighborhood, who takes care of it? Your kind old priest. Certainly.

L-17   "Now this kind old priest knows that the Bible said that God requires a lamb for a sacrifice. Many of you man are businessmen, so you don't raise sheep, yet God requires a sheep. They made some stalls up there, they sold their sheep so that the--the businessmen could go up and buy it, offering a sacrifice for their soul, that God requires.

L-18 "What did this young Fellow, called Jesus? Where did He come from? Said He was born, a virgin birth. Whoever heard of such a nonsense thing? We know His mother had Him before her and Joseph was born... or her and Joseph was married, He was born. Now we find out that He's a--He's a bad name, to begin with.

L-19 "What membership card does He have? If He was a godly Man, what group did He join with? When your priest studied, studied, studied, studied, to know that Word; here He comes around, tearing down what he has built up. Would you call that 'God'? Certainly not.

L-20   "Now, the other day, when your priest had made that place up there, the... and for where you could buy the sacrifice, what did this young fellow do? Kindness? He beat, put some ropes together, some...?... and looked out upon the people, with anger; kicked over those tables, and beat them out of there. And you call that fruits of the Spirit, looking upon them, with anger? And, look, depriving the man of his opportunity to worship Jehovah! The businessman wants to worship Him; he don't raise lambs, and he went there to buy it. And He turned it over, and kicked them, and run them out."

L-21 Who has the fruit of the Spirit there? See? There you are. See, not fruit of the Spirit, not speaking in tongues, not shouting.

L-22   You say, "Then, Brother Branham, what is the evidence? What is the evidence?" The vindication of the Word in the hour.

L-23 They had the Bible. He was exactly what Jehovah said would happen. It don't need any interpretation. It interpreted there. There was your priests, there was all they had, and everything else just so routined and everything, but yet they failed to see the Word. And He made that Word live out for that age. That's the evidence of that age.

L-24 Luther had the evidence of his age, Wesley of his age, Pentecost of its age, but we're in another age. Those things are good. But like the baby, has got a finger, an eye, and nose, but after a while he has to become a human being. He has to become a--a matured child; then be born, have a soul, body, spirit, can move around.

L-25   Now we find out that, all this, Jesus had declared it in just a few. Just those who He had ordained to Life, saw Him. Not great crowds; His crowd could never like be like Caiaphas' crowds. Why, Caiaphas could have called the whole nation together. Jesus called just a few together. Not many knew Him. Thousands times thousands, when He came on the earth. He went through the earth, and they never even knowed He was here.

L-26 So did they again! He'll come to those who are called to Life. He knows who is called to Life. And He'll not... It's His business to take care of that.

L-27   Now we notice that then they come out of the church, and they had believed Him. Everything the Word had been saying about Him, there He was.


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