<TITLE>07. Par 56-66</TITLE>L-56   And how foolish it would be, after the only one way of redemption, and only one plan made, and then turn that down. That would be a--a rashel thing to do, to turn down the only way, the only plan; that's God, God's plan. There is many other plans; but God has a plan, and that plan is through Jesus Christ, and Him alone. It's not through any system, any educational system or any denominational system, or anything. It's through Jesus Christ, and Him alone. That's God's Eternal plan, through Him. God always does things in one way. He never changes His way of doing it.
Now we find out that some say, "He was a prophet."

L-57   And, a prophet, He was, but He was more than a prophet. He was a prophet, plus. And there had many prophets. All prophets died at the gate of death, but this Man took the keys, "death, hell, grave," like Samson did the gates of Gaza, took it out; took the sting and death itself, and swallowed up in victory, and rose up on the third day, triumph, makes His believers more than conquerors. It's already conquered. There is nothing left to do but walk right straight in with the victors' song in our hearts. He is the great triumph One, and this great One was more than a prophet.

L-58 Now, prophets were great men. We--we know that. The Word of the Lord came to the prophets; and it comes to them, and them only. And we find out that that's the Scripture, what It says. "He does nothing 'less He tells His servants, the prophets, first." And they were great man, but this Man was more than a prophet.

L-59   Now we find out, then, many people think that He was an organizer of church, makes... was a great man with a great mind, and organized churches, knowed how to put them together.

L-60 I heard a priest speaking, not long ago, said, "Jesus Christ organized the first Roman church, and He ought to know how to do it."

L-61 Now, the Church never was organized, and It never did begin in Rome. It began in Jerusalem, on the Day of Pentecost, and not in Nicaea, Rome. And It... And Jesus never organized nothing. He, only thing He did, was call. You never, you're not organized to Christ; you are born into the Kingdom of God.

L-62   I--I just passed my birthday, last Monday, and I was fifty-five years old. And you know, the Branham family never did ask me to join the family. I was born a Branham.

L-63 And that's how we are Christians. We're just born a Christian, by the Power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And we are Christians by birth. That, that makes us new creatures. In our old nature, we could never be Christians. That's the reason, today, we have so many calling themselves Christians, and living any kind of a life; they've never exper-... never experienced that born-again, that Something that changes you, that takes the life out. Like pulling the blood out of a man, and that's got a certain type of blood, and putting another type in him. It's pulling the old life out of the man, and injecting the Life of Christ in the believer, and then he becomes a new creation. He's a new creature.

L-64   Now the only way that we'll ever know, and could make all peoples be satisfied.

L-65 If I would ask the--the Pentecostals, tonight, what do you think He should be? They would "have Him a Pentecostal." If I would ask the--the United Brethren what He should; "Why, He was a United Brethren." If I would ask the Methodist; "Why, He was a Methodist." The Baptist, and so forth.

L-66 But now there is only one way to--to satisfy that, and do it Scripturally. Now we want to always, in this platform, be exactly with the Scripture; if it isn't, you're duty bound to come to me and--and correct me. Now, it wants to be with the Scriptures.


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