<TITLE>10. Par 102-114</TITLE>L-102   Now let me draw you a little circle. If I had a blackboard... But I want you to watch here. [Brother Branham draws the following rings on something--Ed.] I'm going to make one ring like this, and I'm going to make another ring on the inside of that ring, that's two, then I'm going to make a ring on the inside of that ring. That's three rings, three circles. Now, that's you.

L-103 That's God. God in a trinity is One, and without a trinity He's not God. He can't be manifested any other way.

L-104 And neither can you be manifested without being the trinity person that you are, that's: body, spirit, soul. Without either one of them, you're not complete. See? You didn't have a soul, you'd be nothing; you didn't have a spirit, you wouldn't be nothing; you didn't have a body, you just be a spirit, not a body.

L-105 So, God is complete in the tri-unity of a Being; not tri-unity of beings, but One Being in a tri-unity. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is one true manifested God. God!

L-106   Notice here, just wait, I--I believe I read it just a few minutes ago. Listen to this.
... unto the angel of the church of... Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

L-107 God is the Creator. And how was He ever created? But this is "the beginning of the creation of God." When God, the Spirit, was created in a form of a Man, that was God being created; God the Creator, Himself, becoming a creation. God, Who made the dirt, made the calcium, made the potash, cosmic light, petroleums, took the thing together and created Himself, in "the beginning of the creation of God."

L-108 "The Amen," the final. Amen means "so be it." "The final of God," when God completed in His creation.

L-109 Now, how was it? "No man has seen God at any time, but the only Begotten of the Father has declared Him." You get it?

L-110   Say, just a minute, you no hurry. Let's turn over to Colossians, just a minute. I just happened to... come a Scripture in my mind. Let's turn to Colossians, the Book of Colossians, and get the... I believe it's the 1st chapter. I'll have to look at this, 'cause it's not premeditated here. So I'll... As I used to be, when I was a young preacher, I could think of these things [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] just right now, but as I get older I can't. Let's begin at the 9th verse, I believe. "For this cause..." Is Paul telling the Colossians about Christ, Who He was.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and... desire that you might be filled with all the knowledge of his will in all wisdom of spirit and understanding;
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and to the increase in the knowledge of God;
Strengthened all... according to the glorious power, of patience and longsuffering with joy;
Giving thanks to the Father, which has meet... which made us meet to... partakers of the inheritance of the saints...
Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

L-111 Here we're getting now. Watch.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sin:
Who is in the image of the invisible God,...

L-112 Get it? 15th verse, Colossians 1:15.
... the firstborn of every creature:

L-113 Amen! The what? "The firstborn of every creature." Let it be Angel, let it be any what it may be; He's the firstborn of every creature.
For by him were all things created--all things created, that are in heaven, or... in earth, visible... invisible, whether they be thrones, whether they be dominions,... principalities,... powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

L-114   Let it be anything it might be; no other being! Notice, "And in... And he is therefore..."
... he is before all things, and by him all things consist.


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