<TITLE>25. Par 234-248</TITLE>L-234 If you're a written epistle, you reflect only the Word; not what the seminary says, what somebody else says, what Miss Jones thinks about It, what Doctor So-and-so think about It, but what God said about It. "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth! Whosoever shall break the least of these commandments, and teach men so! Whosoever shall take one Word out of this Book, or add one word to It! Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word proceeding out of the mouth of God." Live Eternally by that Word!

L-235   Just as so as you have to have dead substance there to live by, you have to have Christ to live by here or you die. And what is Christ? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh dwelt among us."

L-236 And you are the same written epistle, one for one age and one for the other, for the Light of that hour; but they fail to see it. You reflect It only.

L-237 Others fixed, although in one, only failed in one point; but He didn't. And as I said, in Revelation 22:18, He said, "Whosoever shall add to This!"

L-238   Now watch real close now. Matthew 24:24 is the striking, how that they... "Almost, in this last days," Jesus said, "the very elected would be deceived by this thing." Watch the spirits. "In the last days," now that Scripture has to be fulfilled. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, that was, "In the last days, the very elected, predestinated, elected to it, would be deceived..." It's so perfectly, it's so Scriptural, and looks so pretty and clear, that you can't see a flaw in it, anyhow, only the elected will escape it. Now that's what Jesus said. Do you believe it? ["Amen."] "Would deceive the very elected if it were possible."

L-239 "Why, it's perfectly Scriptures, you can see it in the natural eye." But, you see, that isn't it. Jesus... Them Pharisees had that Scripture just as perfect as It could be, but by their own interpretation.

L-240 How did they know He wasn't wrong? Because God vindicated every Word that He promised to Him in that age. That's the reason they knowed He was the Messiah. See?

L-241   Now notice, "if it was possible," in these days. Only one Word, one Word is needed. That's all Satan had to have to Adam, just get Him on one Word. That's all he has to have today, just get one thing turned around. That's all, that's all he needs. Now, you know that's the Truth. To add one, or take one, it's total failure. Every bit, "Every Word of God!" Think now of the interpretations of the seminaries, every one different from the other.

L-242 There has to be a Truth somewhere, and this is It, the Bible. Now Jesus said...

L-243 You say, "Well, Brother Branham, they have the most beautiful worship."

L-244 Jesus said, "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the theology of man, not the Word," man, his own conception of the Word being interpreted.

L-245   As I have said, God don't need no interpreter. He interprets every Word Himself. See, you don't need somebody to interpret It to you, God interprets it to you when you're willing to accept It. See, that's the Life, that's Life Itself.

L-246 Jesus said, "In vain they worship Me." They actually worship God. Cain actually worshiped God, in the beginning. "But in vain do they worship Me." What's vain? "It don't do no good."

L-247 They might say, "Well, I do this. I dance in the spirit. I, I speak in tongues. I, I prophesy. I preach the Gospel." But fail to let your hair grow out, fail on one thing, and see what happens, the Spirit will leave you right there. That's what's happened to our churches, failed.

L-248 "In vain, worshiping Me. Oh, it's a beautiful worship. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man."


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