<TITLE>21. Par 250-267</TITLE>L-250   Just like the wheat. The wheat has to come plumb back, as it starts maturing, from the grain where it rotted, died, and come forth and kept coming up from grass into something else. You can't go back to grass. Don't point back to grass. Don't point back to this. Don't point back to the sheaf. Come on till you get to the wheat. And the wheat has to be the same kind of a wheat that went into the ground, when it's matured. Jesus is raised from the dead. He is matured now. And He is matured in His Church, through justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost; through these reformers in the early days, now here He is on earth today in His people. Believe Him. He is here.

L-251   Just that you might see Him, (might be strangers), may the God of Heaven honor what I've said about Him. Now I want you in the audience, please, don't nobody go out no more. Just give the God of Heaven this much respect, just to sit a moment. Now don't move. Let every person in here, that's sick or needy, raise up your hand. Or be... All right. Thank you. Now, I don't know...

L-252 I know Brother King, sitting right here. I just recognized him, just a few minutes ago. I'm sure. I think that's who that is, is Brother King sitting there. He sponsored my last meeting here. Brother King, I can't say what I want to say, but you know I know what I want to say. You have been through the mill, my little brother. God be merciful to you.

L-253 Others, I don't know. I still see Pat Tyler sitting here. I think that's the only man in the building, or only woman, anything that I know anything, is this man, Pat Tyler, sitting here.

L-254   Believe now. And if I be the servant of God, and if God be here, and I've identified His Word to be the truth; then let the God of Heaven, Who raised up His Son, Jesus Christ, Who made these promises, identify it with you, that I've told the Truth.

L-255 How would He do it? Not by coming with a robe on, and beard. But His Life, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." The Life that's in the Vine is in the branch. "The works that I do shall you also," and promised it in this day, when the next branch comes forth. We've got a lot of grafted branches; sure, it'll bear fruit, but not this kind of fruit. Oh, no.

L-256 I seen a tree in Phoenix, not long ago, it had about eight or nine different fruits on it. Brother John Sharrit owned it. I said, "What kind of a tree is that?"
He said, "It is a orange tree, Brother Branham."

L-257 "Why," I said, "there is lemons and grapefruit and--and tangelos, and tangerines."

L-258 And he said, "Yes, it's all citrus fruits." Said, "I grafted them in there."

L-259 "Oh," I said, "I see. Now, next year, they'll all be oranges?"

L-260 He said, "Oh, no. Huh-uh! No. Next year the--the lemon will be a lemon, the--the grapefruit will be a grapefruit."

L-261 I said, "Off of that same vine? Off that same, off of--off of an orange tree?"

L-262 He said, "Yes. They're all citrus fruit, Brother Branham. It'll live by the citrus fruit."

L-263 Then I felt the tears running down my cheeks. I said, "Lord Jesus, I know what You mean now." There it is. These denominations has grafted theirself in, but they're bearing denominational fruit.

L-264 Listen. If that real branch ever brings forth, a real Vine brings forth another branch, it'll be of the original. Believe it.

L-265 [A sister begins speaking in another tongue--Ed.] Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh! [She continues and finishes. A brother gives an interpretation.] Thank the Lord. How He has promised it!

L-266   Now everybody real reverent. I'm going to just stand here and ask the Lord Jesus.

L-267 This is a gift. What is a gift? To if I can move my own thinking, I can move my own life from me, my--my natural life, my soul, that's William Branham; if I can get him out of the way, God will use the spirit, the body to speak.


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