<TITLE>20. Par 232-248</TITLE>L-232 Then along come the Second Adam, to redeem the Church, which was in shadow and type.

L-233   Now, as sure as Adam and Eve had to be the same spirit, Christ and the Church has to be the same Spirit, the same ministry. "The things that I do, shall you do also." You see what I mean? They had to unite together. Flesh and blood, and God, had to come together and be one Spirit. And Jesus Christ and His Church is one Spirit. How can the church deny creation, how can the church deny the thing that Christ told them to do, how can we deny It and then say that we are of Christ? "If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will and it'll be given to you. I am the Vine, ye are the branches, and the Life that's in the vine goes into the branch to bear the fruit." Fruit-bearers!

L-234 "And every limb that don't bring forth good fruit, is hewed off." That's the way organizations did, break it up, get the Word mixed up, and start off like that. And one starts one this way, and one that way, and, first thing you know, a few little bunch of rickies come in and they get their idea in it, and, the first thing you know, then it's just become a big bunch of Babylon. He just prunes it off.

L-235 Never did an organization ever rise, but what it fell. And every one fell, never did come back again. I challenge that to anybody. Yes, sir. You know history. There never was one. God, as soon as they organize, He puts them on the shelf, and that ends it. He will take a man from somewhere else, bring it right out. Certainly.

L-236   Notice in this now, they have to become one. Jesus said, then, "The Life that's in Him will be in His Church." And here is exactly what He promised in the last days, that the Life that was in Christ, that was in... will be manifested in the days that the world is in a Sodom condition just like it is now. Can't you see, brother, sister?

L-237 What good does it do to join church if you haven't got Christ in your life, and Christ identifying Himself in your life? See, that's it. "These signs shall follow them that believe." He said that. How could you say it, if it's not, how can you claim to be Christ's?

L-238 You say, "Brother Branham, how do you think you're ever going to make that stick with the people, in this intellectual day when everything is a denomination?"

L-239   I asked a woman, not long ago, "Are you a Christian?" In a hospital. She said, "I'll give you to understand I burn a candle every night." Like that had anything to do with Christianity? I had...

L-240 I went to pray for another woman, and I... another lady was laying there, sick, her and her son. And I said... I come in. I said, "Lady, will you... Yeah," I said, "I know who you are. You're Mrs. Oliver."

L-241 She said, "Yes, Brother Branham." She said, "I've been very sick, Brother Branham. The doctor can't find what's wrong with me? Would you offer prayer? That's the reason I called you."

L-242 I said, "Certainly, Sister Oliver." I said, "Would you mind bow your head?"

L-243 Said, "Wait just a minute! Pull that curtain."

L-244 And I said, "Well, all right." I said, "I just going to pray. Are you a Christian?"
She said, "We are Methodist."

L-245 "Well," I said, "that wasn't what I asked you. I asked you if you was a Christian."
She said, "Pull that curtain."

L-246 See, that's just how narrow. How could a person ever be? That's blackness and darkness, denominational difference cutting them off from the blessings of God. That exists in all denominations. That's right. Brother, don't go to she; take on Him. Don't take her name; take His, see, take His Name.

L-247   You say, "Brother Branham, how you going to make it stick today? How are going to do it?"

L-248 He made the promise that He would, said, "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom."
"How is He going to do it?"


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