<TITLE>30. Par 299-309</TITLE>L-299   If I'm an American, I stand all of her shame, I stand all of her glory. Ever what she was, I am. I'm an American citizen. I was... I landed on Plymouth Rock. Yes, sir. Yeah, I landed on Plymouth Rock. I signed the... I was in the hall that morning when they signed the Declaration of Independence. I signed it with them. I'm part of her economy. I signed the Declaration or Independence. That's right. I was with Washington, at Valley Forge, when he crossed the river. I was there that morning. I prayed with him. I was. You were, as an American. If you're an American, you was. For, everything America is, you are. I hoisted the flag--flag on Guam. I helped them do that. I took every fort. I bore her shame, as a revolutionary. Whatever she was, I am.

L-300   And whatever Christ was, I am. What He is, I am. O God! If He is considered a fanatic, so must I be. If He was a--a Beelzebub, by His works of His Spirit, I am too. Whatever He was, I am. Whatever He was, you are.

L-301 We must be the makers of her immortality, her freedom or her fame, her glory or her shame.

L-302 We must be that. We must be the Church, the Bride of Jesus Christ. I lived with Him on the earth, when He lived. I died with Him when He died. I rose with Him when He rose. I'm assembled and am seated with Him now in Heavenly places, because I'm part of Him. Wherever He is, there I am. "Where My servant is, there will I be also."

L-303   Now He can fellowship with us and through us, and rest His Word with us. Which, we are a part of His Word. We... If He is the Word, and we are part of Him, then we are part of the Word.

L-304 And how can I deny I got a hand? No matter how much some idiot would, excuse me, some science would say that--that I haven't got a hand; I got a hand! I know I got a hand. I use it.

L-305 And I know I got a God. I got a Saviour. I feel Him in my soul. I, I'm part of Him. That's what this Word says, that's what I am. And if I deny one part of This, that would be like denying I got an hand, an ear, an eye. I couldn't do it and remain a human being, in my right mind; neither can I deny any of God's Word and remain in my right, the right Spirit of God. I've got to take what the denomination says or what God said about It. See? You cannot do it.

L-306   Now, "transforming." He can transform us through His Word, that we can rest, because we are a part of It.

L-307 And now there is many things, in talking about my natural birth, there is many things in my natural birth that I can't brag on. I'll tell you, I ain't got nothing to brag on. My mother was a sinner, to begin with; my father was a sinner. And they come out of a bunch of cutthroats and gun-fighters, and most of them died with their boots on; drunks and bootleggers, and everything else, out of Kentucky. My mother, a half Indian. And I--I've got nothing to brag on. I can't brag on my family tree.

L-308   But, glory to God, there is one thing I can brag on, my Second Birth, which comes from Jesus Christ. I can brag on that Parent that we have, for He is my Father. He is my Saviour. He is my Redeemer. I can brag on everything that He has--He has done for me, because now I become His son. I am no more a son of Charles Branham, I'm a son of Jesus Christ. That's right. I can brag on my Birth now. I can't brag on my first birth, there is nothing, I'm ashamed of that. But I'm not ashamed of my Second Birth. No, no. I'm not ashamed of my Second Birth. How did He do it? "By the washing of the water by the Word." That's right.

L-309   Truly predestinated believers stay with the Word, and they won't pervert It. It can't be perverted. Oh, sons and daughters of God, why can't we have this great fellowship that we ought to have, with all the sons and daughters of God? We should have it. But they just won't do it, that's all, 'cause they're not truly sons and daughters from the...


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