<TITLE>10. Par 86-96</TITLE>L-86   Used to herd cattle. I noticed the ranger when we'd take them up into the forest, out of the--out of the feeding lands down at the ranches, and put them on the forest. He would stand there and watch as they went through the gate, at the drift fence. He never paid so much attention to brands, because there was all kinds of brands went through there. But there is one thing he did notice, the blood tag. It had to be a thoroughbred Hereford or it could not go on that forest, because it's the Hereford Association that grazes that forest. It must have a blood tag, to keep the breeding right.

L-87 And I think that that's the way it'll be at the Day of the Judgment. He is not going to ask me if I was Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or Presbyterian, but He is going to look for the Blood tag. "When I see the Blood I'll pass over you." That's the thing.

L-88   So we find that these cisterns, after they sit around a while, they be... they become stagnant and they are no good. And it becomes then, also, becomes the home of frogs and lizards and snakes and bugs and germs, and whatmore, because it's a stagnated condition that's pushed into it. Could you imagine, washing off of a barn roof, or off of a house close to the barn, or anywhere the dirt would be, what kind of a bugs and germs, and everything, that washes into this cistern?

L-89   Now, it's a perfect example of any kind of a man-made system. He is a failure, to begin with. That's the reason he needs a Saviour. He could not save himself, he cannot do nothing for it. He is lost, to begin with. He is borned in the world, sinful, he comes to the world speaking lies. He is a liar, to start with, so how in the world can he do anything for himself? How can a holy man?

L-90 There is no holy man. There is no holy church. It's a Holy Ghost! Not a holy church, a holy people; it's a Holy Ghost among a people, that's what it is. Amen. Not a holy mountain where Peter and them stood; the mountain wasn't holy. But it's the holy God, on the mountain, that made it holy. It's not a holy person; it's the Holy Ghost used in that person, what makes it holy. Not the person; but the Person of the Holy Ghost! It isn't the man; because, he's just a man, "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies."

L-91   Any man-made system will keep him right in that; he'll blind the thing from the intellectual, the intellectual eyes, that they think, "I belong to church, my name is on the book. I have did this. My father was this, and so forth." That sounds all right; which, it is, nothing to say against it. But still, friend, Jesus said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot even see," see, there, doesn't mean that he sees with his eyes, but, "understand the Kingdom of Heaven." Until you're born in!

L-92 How would this Baptist evangelist, how would that man who stood there and criticized and made fun of It? See, there is nothing in him that could even receive It; but God had to do it, see. God gave him the Holy Spirit. He manifested that this was not hypocrisy, this is the Word. He only hears it from a school idea, and they try to take all the--the blessings of God and place it on a day gone by.

L-93   A young Baptist preacher, here not long ago, sitting present right here this morning; and he came to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, there is one thing that you are doing that's wrong."
I said, "Help me."

L-94 And he said, "You are, I think you're sincere and a good person, but..."
I said, "Thank you, sir."
He said, "But there is one thing you're doing wrong."
I said, "I hope the Lord just finds one thing wrong."

L-95 And he said, "Well, there is... This is what you're doing that's wrong." Said, "You're trying to introduce to the world an apostolic ministry, and," said, "the apostolic ministry ceased with the apostles."

L-96 I said, "As a Baptist to a Baptist, I would like to ask you a question."
Said, "What?"


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