<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>1L-005-53 Many of the questions here on: "Well, will the Bride... Will this? The church and..." See? You--you can't divide what they are. The Bride is the elected of God. The church goes through... That's the ones It says, "Whosoever will, let him come." But the Bride is the elected of God.
There is five offices elected of God. "For God has set in the church apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists." God did that. Man has deacons and so forth, and everything else, but you see, but God set in the church for the perfecting of the church--can't divide it.
Now, the Holy Spirit, when It comes, It is a witness unto you (See?) that this Word is right, the Word for today, not the Word for Luther, the Word, not for Moses. We witness It's the Truth, but it's another day.

1L-005-56 Now, what if Jesus would come and said, "Now, as Moses come taking you all out of Egypt, I've come taking you somewhere else"? What if He said, "Let's go to work and build an ark. I--I'm the Lord God, I--I'm going to float the world away now. I'm going to drown the world, all of them"? Why, He'd been out of the... See, the Scripture never said He'd come like that. See? He wouldn't have been the Messiah. No matter how much ark He'd built, or whatever He had done. He's still not--He'd have not qualified the Messiah. Hallelujah. There you are. It's qualification. Yes, sir.
I Corinthians 13 says this: "When that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away with." So all these little things of jumping up-and-down like a kid, trying to talk in tongues, and all these other things, when that which is perfect... And we do have today, by God's help, the perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication. Then that which is in part is done away with. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish things." Amen. I go to preaching and then don't get to these things.

1L-005-Q-282 282. Brother Branham... (Did I finish that? Did I get about the baptism of the Holy... Yes, that was about it, wasn't it? All right. Excuse me, if I don't get it, just forgive me. I... These are such wonderful questions. You could just stay one whole night just on one question, brother, and then not even touch it.) I appreciate you as a servant of God, the believe--and I believe the Message of Truth. My wife won't hear me--says anything--say anything about this Message, and will not listen to any tape. I am in nervous trouble on my job also. I want my wife to believe too and pray for my children. Brother Branham, I want to be friend of God's--I want to be found in God's will for my life. I want to be His servant. (And the person signs "over." Wait a minute.) When I was small, I told everyone that I wanted to be a preacher. I don't know what God wants me to do. I'm willing to do anything for the Lord. Yours in the Lord.
Now, a good question. And the man is sincere. His wife, his companion that's a part of him... May I add something here to that? My brethren, I say this in the Name of the Lord. One of these days, the Lord willing, I think I'll just go ahead and make that tape on marriage and divorce (See?), bring it right here at the Tabernacle. If it separates, it'll just have to separate. But we're going to prove it's the Word of the Lord.

1L-006-59 Look, my brethren. Listen to this. Do you know many times you get the wrong mate here in the earth? Some pretty pair of brown, or blue, or gray eyes vamps you into a place that you--that you shouldn't have listened. Many men realizes that.
A man getting married should first approach it prayerfully. You should not pick a woman by being beautiful on the outside, but beautiful on the inside, one that'll be a mother to your children.


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