<TITLE>08. Par 76-88</TITLE>L-76   Now you say, "How do I know I'm threaded right?" Watch the Word. See? Now you know whether you're threaded right, whether we are nuts for Christ, or whether we are nuts to the world.
Now the world, also, has received their--their nut. Exactly.

L-77 I had a little something wrote down here, I wanted, didn't want to forget. The--the... And we set here, become bolts, nuts to the world, that's exactly, that we might hold the Kingdom of God together, on earth; see, the Kingdom of God, together. All right.

L-78   Remember, the world, they--they, the outside world, they have their nuts also. Satan gives them a nut, in the days of this great thing. See, it all works it, pro and con. See? Now in the days of...

L-79 The world had a nut, and that was Pharaoh, in the days of--of Moses. There were, see, there had to be. The--the Devil has his nuts too. Well, there was Pharaoh. See? Now, Israel; and Moses standing down there, was to draw those people out, was a nut to Pharaoh. But also Pharaoh was a nut to them, too. See?

L-80   And so it has to be that way. So, you're somebody's nut. I'm so glad to be wound in the Word, aren't you, with--with the thread of That? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Somebody will teach That.

L-81 Ahab, he was a nut, exactly, to Elijah and the seven thousand, all his group out there. Jezebel in all their fine, fancy fandangles and things they had out there, that was a nut to that seven thousand, never bow their knee to Baal. And so was Elijah a nut to them, see, the same thing.

L-82 We find out, in the days of Herod, John was a nut. See? And Herod was a nut also. The world had one. All right.

L-83 In the days of Jesus, He was a--a--a--a fool to--to the world, see, to Pilate. But Pilate was a nut, also, to turn Him down. That's right. See? He wasn't threaded. He had a opportunity. But when he had his opportunity to accept it, he wanted some kind of a clown, some kind of a trick, some kind of a magic rabbit to bring out of a hat, you know, or something. He said, "Oh, I would see You do some tricks," you know, or something like that. He was a nut, himself. See? He had a chance to receive it, but he didn't.

L-84   The Sadducees also, and the Pharisees, was the same thing in that day, by not accepting Paul, the one that said he become a fool to the world. See?

L-85 But the church has its nuts, too. See? And the world has its nuts. Christ has His. See? Now whose are you? The only way you can know...
You say, "How do I know this is right, Brother Branham?"

L-86 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Therefore, the Word still is Him. So if we're threaded with That, see. Know, we, though we be a nut to the--the world, if we are threaded in Christ's Word, and Christ's showing it, when He--He is pulling it together, see, pulling his Church together. Let them raise and do what they want to.

L-87   Now, Jesus, in Matthew 24:24, said that, "These two groups would be so close, in the last days, to deceive the very elected, if possible." The people, still, the people sometime in Pentecost, to you out-comers from Pentecost, see. When they organize and got over there in those groups like that, and you come away from it. See, the Bible said, that, "It would deceive the very elected if it was possible." See? "The very elected," that's the ones that's elected to do this; the ones, see, the bolt.

L-88 Don't come, say, "Oh, theirs there, there's a nut, you see." You see, he's got to be, he's got where the... When the threads are cut in the bolt, it's got to be cut in the nut the same way. See what I mean? It's got to fit. See? And the Elected, therefore, you see, it won't tighten up with anything else. It's just got to come to Christ. You see? It's the only thing that'll fit. See? And that's where we stand today. Thanks be to--to God. And all right.


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