<TITLE>21. Par 242-260</TITLE>L-242   See, God, in the beginning, when He thought of you and thought of others like that, thought of Himself of being tangible. That was His thoughts. See? So, He expressed His thoughts by Word. He said, "Let there be." "Let there be," and there was. "Let there be," and there was.

L-243 Then, after a while, He kept saying "let there be," till the people said, one day, "Don't let God speak!"

L-244 He said, "Now I'll speak to them through a prophet." See? "From this on, I'll speak to them through a prophet."

L-245 And the prophet said, "There shall come; there will be," and it was, and it was. And it was, and it was, see, just like that. You get it now?

L-246   "The fullness of time" has come after time has been fulfilled. Sin is gone, after the world's baptism, after the world's baptism makes it a fit place; no sickness, no germs; no thorns, no thistles; no death, no sorrow, no heartaches; no old age, nothing to represent death; nothing wrong; all right; nothing natural. Eternal!

L-247 Then, His attribute is expressed because it was there, first, to begin with. That's what He thought. [Brother Branham illustrates at the blackboard--Ed.]

L-248   And then what happened? He set Adam and Eve here on the earth, and said, "Multiply now and replenish the earth." Their bodies was all laid out here, for you to eat and make your body. That's the way He had of doing it.

L-249 But sin come along and interrupted His plan. She rolls right on, just the same, time does.

L-250   But what did Jesus do? God came down and expressed Himself in the form of a Man, a human being; gave His life, instead of staying here. Which, He was the King, but He gave Hisself to redeem the rest. You get it?

L-251 And when it's all over, then it's pulled right back, and God's purpose is fulfilled. There is the Eternal King again with His Eternal subjects, expressed in human flesh, exactly the way He had it; sin is took away; the devil is gone; it's all done now.

L-252   What will do it? This earth couldn't be a place for Heaven to sit now. Look at it, the sin. It will have to be cleansed.

L-253 No man, no person, no woman, boy, girl, I don't care who he is, is fit to go in the pulpit, or even claim to be a Christian, without being filled with the Holy Ghost. You have no right to the Lord's supper, or any communion, feet-washing, or anything, until you've been cleansed by the Holy Fire of God.

L-254 No man has a right to preach unless you, like Moses, meets Him out there on that sacred grounds, that Pillar of Fire hanging there, where he knows where he's at. See?

L-255   Notice how, how we go. After the world's Fire baptism, all germs is gone, makes it a fit place then for Heaven to dwell here on earth.

L-256 Type, now, of sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus; passed from this, dirty like the little woman was, into the expressed attribute of God. "Now we are the Sons of God," not we will be. We're the attributes of God's thinking. See?

L-257   Now you say, "Well, look at this priest. Wasn't he a son of God?" It proved he wasn't. He couldn't recognize what? Did he say, "I believe the Bible"? Sure. But he couldn't recognize the expressed Word of the hour. He only had an intellectual learning from some group that had been back before him.

L-258 And it's the same thing today! See? I know that's strong, but it's the Truth.

L-259 There was the Word, as spoken exactly for that day; and, he, yet he was a scholar, yet he was a renown person, but he could not recognize It. Why? No matter how scholar he was, anything like that, he still didn't have representation of predestination. See?

L-260 Only the predestinated will only be the one who does it; only can be. And you only can do it... Because, look, it proves predestination. Cause, if you've got Eternal Life, you had to be a part of God all times, 'cause He's the only One is Eternal. You see it? Oh, my! Think of it.


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