<TITLE>17. Par 155-165</TITLE>L-155   Now notice, they tried to make Him eat something besides the Bread of Life that every man should live by. But Jesus stayed with the Father's Word. Oh, he didn't hit Eve then, he never hit Moses, he never hit any of the rest of them. He hit One was going to reflect every Word. See, He, that's the reason, He was the Word. But Jesus stayed with the Word, refused his theological seminary doctrine, yes, sir, his new light, his more experience. He couldn't push it on Jesus like he pushed it off on Eve, to show her, "Oh, surely, God..."

L-156 "Oh, surely, God would be in this if we could get together and make a whole World Council of church. Surely, God would be. He wants unity and He wants brotherhood." With Himself, not with the world; brotherhood with Himself, worship to Himself. That's what He died for, that you would worship Him. As ever, if he can't get...
Now we find out that he failed. Jesus went right back to him, with THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-157   Now when he sees that a believer... Watch the believer come in these same catagories now, each one of you. When he sees (he) you're going to stay with the Bible, "Yeah, I believe the Bible. I ain't joining no creed and thing out there. I'm going to stay with the Bible." And, as ever, if he can't get you to believe, to--to live the real Truth and to believe the Word, I want you to notice what he done to Jesus, the second time, if he ain't get you. Say, "I ain't going to join no creed. I ain't going to. I'm, I was born free, I'm going to stay with It. I'm going to do this, that, or the other." See, join the church, and you come join, and something another; he can't get you to do that, then he'll do something else to you. Oh, brother, watch this.

L-158   If he doesn't, then he'll send you off to his own seminary, to be taught by his own theologians, see, where Satan is the interpreter. "Oh, the days of miracles is passed. That people down there, I got, well, that's a bunch of heretics. They, they're not, see." He'll send you there.

L-159 Oh, you may say, "Wait a minute, Brother Branham! Just a minute now!" Yeah, let's do wait just a minute, see. You say now, "Don't you no longer supposed to? Aren't we supposed to?" No, sir. No, sir.

L-160 But Jesus said, "When He the Spirit of Truth is come, see, He will bring these things that I have taught, to your memory, the Word. And He'll also show you things to come." There is the real Spirit-filled Church now, stays with the Word, reflects the Word, God on earth. See? He doesn't need any theologian, 'cause His Word is of no private interpretation. He interprets His Own Word, by vindicating It and proving It, It's the Truth.

L-161 When the Methodist church told you you couldn't receive the Holy Ghost like they did on the Day of Pentecost, did you pay any attention to it? Certainly not. You went right along and got the Holy Ghost, anyhow. See? Cause the...

L-162   I was discussing the--the trinity with a--a Baptist minister, the other night, and I told him it was only terminology. And so we come to find out, he said, another little minister there from the seminary, he said, "Well, Mister Branham, you are trying to make people believe an apostolic religion."
I said, "Certainly, the only one there is."
And he said, "Sir, where did you go to school at?"

L-163 I said, "On my knees, my brother. Not to... See, that's where I got, not theology, but kneeology." I said, "That's where I found Him."

L-164 And he said, "Mister Branham, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, like they got on the Day of Pentecost, you try to say that that's today?"

L-165 I said, "The Bible said, sir, that the... that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." I said, "That was Jesus Christ that come on the Day of Pentecost." Oh, yeah.


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