<TITLE>08. Par 66-76</TITLE>L-66 "Oh, I belong to a certain-certain thing." See, that don't have nothing to do with it. I ain't got nothing against that, but that's not what I'm trying to tell you. Belong to any church you want to. Your brand don't make any difference.

L-67   I was telling the pastor this morning. Up in Colorado I used to ride the roundups, and so forth. And I used to sit there, my leg across the saddle, like that. And the Troublesome River Hereford Association grazes the Troublesome River Valley. Then you got up at the top of the valley, you got the east and west fork. All the cattle from here up, in the Association, grazes the west fork; and--and the group that I was with, grazed the east fork. Then they had the drift fence there to keep the cattle off of the private property, and up into the mountains through the summer.

L-68 And we would round the cattle up, four or five different brands, eight or ten different brands, on the river, would round up our cattle in the spring, take them up there. And I used to sit there, my leg across the horn of the saddle, after we had got all the cattle, they was all branded and everything, starting it back up on the pasture.

L-69   And the ranger stood there. He was counting them as they went through. And I noticed there was all kinds of brands. Mr. Grimes had the--the--the Diamond Bar, and just above us had the Turkey Track, we had the Old Tripod, and there was different brands went through there. But the--the ranger didn't notice the brand. He noticed the blood tag in the ear. There was nothing could go on that pasture, to keep the breeding associations, let their cattle true to the breed, nothing could go on there but a thoroughbred Hereford. It had to be tagged in the ear, by the blood mark.

L-70 That's the way it'll be at the Judgment. He is not going to ask me if I was a--a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian. What brand I have won't mean nothing to Him. It's nothing but a born-again, Blood-born Christian of the Blood of Jesus Christ, that'll be what will go in. Nothing less than that will go in. Now we want to remember, remember that.

L-71   Now, when He is not recognized, His power is al-... is always not revealed, when He is not recognized. No matter how much God is standing present, you've got to believe it. That's all.

L-72 Like the woman with the blood issue. All them people passing by, and all of them standing up, saying, "There goes the Rabbi. That's the Guy that claims to be a Prophet. This is the fanatic," and all such as that.

L-73 But what happened? This little woman had an issue of blood, and she had heard about Him. And when she come down there, regardless of what anybody said, she recognized Who He was. And she said, "If I can only touch His garment!" See?

L-74 And when that genuine faith, in God, became a positive thing to her, what did it release? It released His power to heal her. It touched Him in such a way, He turned around and told her what was wrong with her, said, "Your faith has saved you." What did? Faith!

L-75 Others standing there might have been sicker than she, but, you see, she recognized His Presence. She knowed that was her opportunity.

L-76   If we could only do that tonight, people! If we could only realize that He is appearing to us in these meetings, for one purpose, that's, to release our desires that we have in Him, to us. But we've got to recognize His Presence. And now how you recognize His Presence, is when the promised Word for this age is made manifest, not the promised Word of Moses' age or any other age. Is the promise of the Word for this age!


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