<TITLE>09. Par 52-58</TITLE>L-52   These trees, the true vine and false vine! You've heard me preach on that since, from years ago, how they've growed up together. Brought them in individuals and showed that, from Cain and Abel, the two vines that met at an altar; both of them religious, both of them anointed, both of them desiring life, and worshiping the same God. And one was rejected and the other received.
And the only way that the one that was received could have done anything different from his brother, it was revealed to him. For the Bible said, "By faith..." Hebrews, 11th chapter, "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, which God testified that he was righteous."
Jesus, said, the spiritual revelation of Who He was! "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"
He said, Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
"Blessed art thou, Simon--Simon, son of Jonas; flesh and blood never revealed this to you. My Father which is in Heaven has revealed it. Upon this rock I'll build My Church," (what?) the true revelation of the Word. There is the true Vine again. "Abel, by faith!"
You said, "It wasn't a revelation."

L-53   What is faith? Faith is something that's revealed to you; that is not yet, but you believe it will be. Faith is a revelation of the will of God. So, by revelation!

L-54 And the churches today don't even believe in spiritual revelation. They believe in a dogmatic teaching of some system. "By revelation Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, which God testified he was righteous." Amen. I hope you see that. See where we're living? See the hour?
I was talking to a--a gentleman not long ago, a Christian scholar and gentleman. He said, "Mr. Branham, we refuse all revelations."

L-55   I said, "Then you have to refuse Jesus Christ, for He is the revelation of God, God revealed in human flesh." Unless you see it, you're lost.
Jesus said, "Except you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." He is the revelation of God, the Spirit of God revealed in human form. If you can't believe that, you're lost. You put Him a third person, second person, or any other person besides God, you're lost. "Except you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." A revelation!

L-56   No wonder they couldn't see Him. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all the Father has given to Me," in the roots, "will come to Me." See? You get it? Oh, how we should love Him, adore Him, praise Him; to see the fruit of the Spirit in the last days, and the Bride Tree ripening in the top of the time!

L-57   The true vine and the false vine, both had the same anointing. The water fell on both of them. No wonder He warned us, "It would deceive the very Elected if it was possible."

L-58 Notice, they look the same. They're anointed the same. But notice, "By their fruit..." How do you knowed it?
How you know that isn't an orange? Because it's bearing a grapefruit. That vine is all right, it's living in the tree, but it's bearing a grapefruit. It isn't like the first one.
And if a church says they "believe Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," and deny His Power, deny His works, deny His Word; if--if... The Church that believes in Jesus Christ, will do the works of Jesus Christ, it'll have the Life of Jesus Christ. And if it isn't, no matter if the Life is pouring into it; if it isn't predestinated, from the roots, it'll bear grapefruit every time, or something different. But if it's the predestinated Life, in the roots, it'll bear Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, if it's the Word coming up through the Root. Which, He is the Root, the beginning of time.


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