<TITLE>03. Par 25-34</TITLE>L-25   Now if we're not serving Him, then let's get away from the thing we're doing and go serve Him. Because, after all, what good is our profession if there is nothing to it? And our sincerity doesn't--doesn't expel us from condemnation. Heathens are sincere. People drink carbolic acid sometimes, sincere, thinking they're taking something else. Sincerity doesn't do it. It's got to be a way that's right, and a way that's wrong.

L-26 I believe that the Bible is right. I believe that God's Word is right. Now God has got to judge. [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] Pardon me. He has got to judge the world by something.

L-27   Now when I was a little boy, my family before me, not my father and mother, but before that, we were Irish on both sides, so, we, it was Catholic and it was just natural for me to return to a Catholic church. Well, my father and mother was married out of church, and they didn't go to church. And then when I become of age, to know that there was God, as many of you has read my book, I--I knew there was God somewhere.

L-28 But now, the thought of it is, if God is going to judge the world by the church, then which church is it going to be? If it's going to be the Catholic church, then which Catholic church? The Roman, the Orthodox, or which one is He going to judge it by? If He is going to judge it by the Protestant, is it by the Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian? Which one? See, there is too much confusion.

L-29   So a fellow would say, "Well, it just..." Oh, yes, it does. "It doesn't matter, as long as you're sincere."

L-30 The first Book in the Bible, what caused death, sickness, sorrow, and sin, was because one person disbelieved one Word. In the last Book of the Bible, the same God, on Revelation 22, said, "Whosoever shall take one Word out, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life." So that has got to be the judgment Book.

L-31   Now we find out, that, "In the beginning," Saint John 1, "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. We beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father, that the Word Itself, God, was made flesh and dwelt among us."

L-32 Hebrews 13:8 says, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Then if He is the same, and it's the Word, then how did the Word declare Itself through all other ages? It'll have to do Itself the same way today, to be Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's no more than Truth. He is the Word; and where, how the Word was declared in all other ages. God doesn't change Himself. Malachi 1 or... Malachi 3:6 says He doesn't. "I am God, I change not."

L-33   So exactly the way that He was in the beginning, He is today. And He was the Word, to the human race, in the beginning. God never give the human race a church to stand behind, never give them a creed to stand behind. He had fortified the human being with His Word, "Believe this Word and live!" It's the same thing today. And Christ is that Word, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelled among us." Now, what He was in other ages, then He has got to be the same today, if He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. Which, I think I've thoroughly explained that it is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is the Word.

L-34   Now, Jesus said, "The Scriptures could not be broken." The Scriptures was true. And the Scripture says, in Saint John 1, that, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." God became flesh, in His Son, Jesus Christ, and dwelt among us. In Saint John 10:35, Jesus called those which He came to, which was the Word in the beginning, "prophets." Jesus said here, "Your own law teaches you that, those who the Word of God came to, and the Word of God came to the prophets."


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