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EXPERIENCES 3. 47-1221Well now, look. Sight is a sense of the body. Is that true? Sight isone of the senses. How many senses are there of the body? See,taste, feel, smell, and hear. How many senses are there to spirit?Two: faith and doubt.

Are you two people in one? You're soul... Your soul, that's the

nature of the spirit 'course. But now, you're body and spirit. Is thatright? You are a body, flesh, and you're inside, then, spirit. Is thattrue? All right. The out... The inside man leaves; the outside man'sdead. Is that right?

AT THY WORD. 50-0714E-34 034 We thank Thee for Thy love, that You loved us while wewere aliens, alienated from God, cut off without mercy, sinners bynature, going to a Christless grave and a Godless eternity. AndChrist died for our sins in our stead, and has went before God nowwith our sins as a sin Offering, to be made an offering for us,taking our place, and His soul was put in hell. But it was notpossible that His holy One should see corruption, so He raisedHim again after three days.

Oh, and He's a High Priest tonight, setting there makingintercessions; with His own Blood He's entered in before theMaster. And tonight, if does not appear what we shall be, but weknow we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. Webelieve that's soon, Lord. Come, Lord Jesus.

Move tonight in sweet love and compassion upon Your people.Heal every one that's sick and needy; break up the hearts of the

haughty. "He that goeth forth, sowing in tears, will doubtless returnagain rejoicing, bringing with him precious sheaves." Mold us andmake us after Thy own will. Bless all the unsaved, and may they,somehow tonight, by the Word, or by the Spirit of God, beconvinced that they're wrong, and come humbly, and give their

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hearts to Thee. May all the sick be healed, for we ask it in theName of Thy beloved Son, Jesus. Amen.

CRUELTY OF SIN. 53-040348 017 Then He said, after He had got all of that made, beforeHe'd ever done anything else... I can see this little Halo moveover--over this world, which was merely a cinder, frozen, hangingout there like a great iceberg. And He moved it over near the sun.And He begin to turn it like that, around the sun. It begin to melt,and the big ice glaciers tore loose. Texas was being formed, andthe plains there; as we're taught how the icebergs come down

through there, best chronologists can figure out. And then thewhole world, after it run down into the Gulf of Mexico, and so forth,begin to berm up with water. "And the world, without form, andvoid..." Now we're in Genesis 1. See? Now then, God moved andseparated the firmament from the waters. And He made the lights.

And then He created all His creations. Then after He made it, allthe trees come up, and the plants, and so forth. What a beautiful

setup He had. He loved it. It was beautiful. And He thought thatwas fine.

51 018 So He couldn't just leave it in that state; He had to leavesomething with it. So He said, "Let us (plural) make man (plural) inour own image. Let us make man in our own image." So thenwhen God made His first man, He was a spirit man. He wassomething on the order of God, or the Son of God, the Logos. That

was the first man. Then He gave the man jurisdiction over the--tolead all the animal life, just like the Holy Spirit leads the believertoday: "Go here. Do this."

Now, if we were perfect in submission to the Holy Spirit, God wouldlead us by the Holy Spirit, just like Adam led the animals of thatday.

53 019 So He--He made them. And then, when He did, He begin tomove upon--upon the idea then that--that He had made man out ofthe dust of the earth. There was no man to till the soil, no one to dowork, no physical being. So He made man out of the dust of theearth.

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Now, there's where I think that a--a botanist, or--or science andChristianity, does not conflict one with another. Because sciencesays, the man came from different a life; and we say, when youlook at a man here, he's in the image of God. This is, was not theimage of God to begin with. This was the image of animal life. Andhe... And the evolutionists argues that we... I don't believe in thechain of evolution the way they do, all coming from the single cell.But I believe we evolute, certainly, the evolution one man fromanother. But then when God made all of that, and got--put the manin the...

55 020 Made him out of the dust of the earth, now, not in His Ownimage. He had already made the man. Then He breathed into himthe breath of life, and he became a living soul. So the soul of manis the nature of the spirit.

Now, when you're reborn, you don't get a new spirit. You get a newnature of that spirit. It's the same spirit, but a new nature of it. Youtake two men, stand them together, both look alike; and one of

them is a sinner, and one of them is a Christian. One man say, "Igot a spirit the same as you have." See? But one of them is adifferent, his soul, his nature's different. He's been changed.

57 021 So then He breathed into this man. Now, I don't know how,I don't how He made him. He--He put him in five senses so hecould contact his earthly home, and see, taste, feel, smell, andhear. And He made him in that manner. Now, those senses was

not to contact God.

His sense to contact God was his spirit, his soul was to con... "Thesoul that sinneth, the soul shall die."

Now, I'm going a long ways around to get something, but I hopeyou get every point of it, so you can see exactly what God had todo at Calvary.

60 022 Now, when this man, then, when He put him in his senses,his five senses... And then, the man, he was lonesome, so Hemade him a wife, a helpmate, taken from his side a rib and made awoman.

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A beautiful type there, all in type, of God taking from the side ofChrist, the Bride. See? God opened up Adam's side, taken a rib;which, a man has one less rib than a woman in the structure ofthe--the body. And now God opened up the side of Christ, in the--at Calvary, and taken out the Bride. The Church comes throughthe Blood of Christ into the Body of Christ. See?

That's how--how we come in, and through no other way. No matterhow church you belong to, how good a man you are, how good awoman you are; you must accept God's all-sufficient Sacrifice, Hisprovided way, or you're lost. That's right. That's the only way that

you can come in, is through there. Now, there's only one way, andthat's the Door.

EXPLAINING HEALING AND JAIRUS. 54-0216E-23 023 We are thinking of Jairus. I believe he was a nice, littlefellow. Many times that we judge people by their actions, andsometimes we don't judge the heart.

You know, I've often thought, back here is the spirit of a man, thenext is his soul, the next is his mind, and then his flesh. All right.Satan does not tempt down in here, he tempts out here in theflesh. For instance, you go down the street tomorrow, you'rewalking along singing Christian songs, and somebody says, "Youknow, she or he, is just a hypocrite (talking about you.); there'snothing..." Now, the first thing, your flesh picks that up in the ear,and it suggest to the mind, "Get even with him." Time it gets back

here, he says, this back here says, "'Vengeance is Mine,' saith theLord. 'I will repay.'" See? That's it.

So Satan tempts out here. You see? He doesn't get down here,because is immortal. See? It's the flesh that he tempts.

Young man going down the street, young Christian boy, a younglady coming immorally dressed. The eye picks it up; the flesh

suggest to the mind evil. Then time it gets to the mind, goes to thesoul, the nature's good... The soul of man is the nature of the spirit,of course. And so, when the soul gets there, but the Spirit says,"Whoever looketh upon a woman to lust after has committedadultery in his heart already." The young man turns his head andwalks away. See? That's down here is where it's got to be, not out

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here. It's got to be down in your heart, where it's got to come from,where--where God lives.

E-24 024 And little Jairus, I'd imagine, down in his heart hebelieved on the Lord. But what he had, he had joined up with abunch of unbelievers. You know there's a lot of people like thattonight? They believe, would like to be right here in this meetingtonight, but they're got their name on books that doesn't believethis. You see? So they're secret believers.

And Jairus... You know a man like that, God sooner or later will

bring it to a showdown, I believe. So Jairus probably went with thepriest, and they said, "Ever who goes to these healing campaigns,can just come get your membership and leave." 'Cause theycouldn't no more belong to the synagogue. See? They had to getout. And so they--they couldn't believe on this fanatic, because Hedidn't teach the way their seminaries taught, and so forth, so... ButHe did have the Word of the Lord. And He had a spiritual move.God always...

WORD BECAME FLESH. 54-1003M185 082 Our thoughts run different. A lot of times we walk up, say"How do you do, brother?" And you don't mean it in your heart. Alot of times we say, "I am this and that. I will do that." You don'tmean it in your heart. See? I don't mean it in my heart.

But when you can become so dead to the things of the world, that

Christ is first, Christ is all, then your entire makeup is of the Spiritof the Lord Jesus Christ, He has full control. That's when yourthoughts will be clean. Your thoughts will be pure. Your heart--yourheart...

Many people say, "Well, religion comes from your heart." There'sno mental facilities in that little being called "heart." You can't thinkwith your heart. The Bible said, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so

is he." You can't think with your heart. You can't, 'cause there'snothing mentally in there to think with. Jesus wasn't speaking ofthe physical being; He was speaking of the supernatural being.

188 083 We are a threefold being: soul, body, spirit. We know thatwhat this flesh is; we realize that; it's here. We know what the spirit

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is; it controls the flesh. But what is the soul? The soul is the natureof the spirit.

When a man is converted, it doesn't mean that... Here is a good,deep teaching. I hope you get it...

WORD BECAME FLESH. 54-1003M210 090 What? You couldn't make a lamb out of a pig, if you hadto. He's a pig to begin with; he tends to his own business, and tellthe lamb to take care of his own business. The only way that youcould make that pig believe that it's wrong to be in the pig pen,

would put a lamb spirit in him. If he ever gets a lamb's soul inhim... Or, a lamb ain't got no soul. But if he ever gets a lamb's spiritin him, the very nature of the thing... That's the reason you can'tmake, convert a pig; you can't convert a lamb, because he ain't gotno soul. What he is in his spirit, he's got that same nature forever.See?

But a human being can be changed from a pig to a lamb, because

he's got a soul made in the image of God. Amen.

212 091 Well, his thoughts changed. Something does it for him.Hallelujah. "As a man thinketh in his heart." See? Christ theCreator come to him in a still form, and created. His Own Spirittook the man's nature away, to love dancing, and the world, andcarrying on, and from that time he just laid it aside and washungering after God. And God was in him all the time. It was God

in the beginning. See? There you are. Amen.

"As a man thinketh..." It has to become a thought before it canbecome a word. And a word expressed, materializes. I believe inmy heart that I am a Christian, because I have accepted the LordJesus Christ; if I don't cry, if I don't move, if I don't do a thing. In myheart first, I believe that Christ died for me in my stead. Amen. Iaccept it as a Christian; I believe it as a Christian; then it's in my

heart. Then I express it in a word, "I am a Christian." Hallelujah.Then I start walking as a Christian, talking as a Christian, living asa Christian, being as a Christian. And by my fruits I'm recognizedby the world as a Christian. Hallelujah.

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214 092 Say, I didn't aim to get that loud. But I... But there It is,God's Word. Jesus said... Here it is. Oh, just tell me when I'm longenough. But well, Jesus said this. Look, "In the beginning..."Notice. See, "A man, as he thinketh in his heart."

LAW OR GRACE. 54-100699 038 Now, we see that we do wrong, "Oh, I have did wrong. I'vesinned. I've--I've lived wrong. I've done wrong." Now, I come to thealtar. By faith I see the Sacrifice; I lay my hands upon Jesus' head.I say, "Dear God, I know that my... I'm a sinner, and wages of sin isdeath. And if I do wrong, I've got to die. And if I die, I can't come in

Your Presence, I'll be punished in torment forever and ever. So I'mwrong, Father. And I want to be right, and I don't want to die likethis." So I lay my hands upon His head, and His life was taken formy life. But the thing of it is, when I go away from the altar, I goaway with a changed heart. See?

100 039 The first man went away under the law, under animal'sblood; it couldn't change his heart, 'cause a animal life won't

compare with human life. The animal can't give the human blood.See? The animal can't do it, 'cause his life is a different life. And ananimal has a life, but not a soul. An animal is a living being but nota soul. But God put soul on man. So then, my soul... What is thesoul? The nature of the spirit.

And when the soul of Christ was left--not left in hell, but was takenup, through the Blood, shedding of His Blood, when God taken

Him to Calvary, it mingled His Blood out there on the cross; andwhen He stood there waving His head back and forth, the crownsaround His head, like this, with thorns, the Blood running down inHis face, dripping off of His locks on His shoulders, crying in anunknown tongue, "My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?"there's the Lamb. That's the One. That's the innocent One thatdied, that me, the unworthy one, could be made right, that I mighthave a right to Life. That's the unworthy. I... we're...?...

LAW HAVING A SHADOW. 54-1203E-70 070 And every man that's ever borned of the Spirit of God,takes on a nature that he can't digest the world no more. "For ifyou love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God's noteven in you." And, brother, if you still love the world and professing

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to be God's child, for the sake of your own soul, find a place at thealtar and pray through until God takes the world out of you. For Hehas perfected forever those that are sanctified or cleaned by theHoly Spirit, then we are in perfection

POSITION OF A BELIEVER IN CHRIST. 55-0227AE-47 047 Under law, under shadows, they get in under theshedding of the blood of goats and bulls, which we went through,which could not take away sin. It was the life of an animal. Howcould the life and spirit of a dead animal, coming out of the bloodof life--the cell of life, breaking forth the blood that was shed, ever

that life ever returning back into an animal? or to a man? The lifeof a lamb, of the heifer, of the goat, or an animal that's beensacrificed, after the blood has been broken for our sins... That'swhy it never returns back and having anything to do with a humanbeing. It could not.

But God, before the foundation of the world, foreordained thatJesus would come the perfect Lamb of God, into a perfect cell that

God Himself created, to bring Blood into the world to offer that theBlood...?...

And if you can turn Him down in this hour, a love that the sinner,that was in that Blood cell with His love and the Holy GhostHimself, after that offering of that man, can come back andpossess the believer... He bought eternal redemption. Amen.

E-48 048 Now, did you get that? Then how? See it? Through theBlood, washing of the Blood, taking away, separating of sin, thatthe Holy Spirit woos the believer through the Blood, cleansing ofthe soul into the fellowship, into this Spirit Life, inside with Christ,shut out the world, and very nature of God is in you; still subject tomistakes, but God can't see it, because it's covered by the Blood.God can't see through the Blood. Every time He looks through theBlood, it looks white. He looks through the Blood; it looks white.

So if God was so pleased with Christ till He accepted Him, andsaid, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I'm well pleased."... Andthrough Christ, being the perfect One, us dead to our own thoughtsand ideas, being born of the Spirit of God, walking not after thetheology, but after the Spirit inside of us, then let the dead in Christ

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walk not after the things of the world, but after the things of theSpirit. Romans 8:1 said, "There is therefore now no condemnationto them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh(fighting, war, and strife, envying, selfish things), but after theSpirit."

INTER VEIL. 56-0121E-46 046 Brother, as it was in that case, so is it many a hyponeedles stops the deathbed confession. Oh, she thought she wasright. But when it come the time to die, even a backslidden pastorhad got around... She was all right. Sure, she was a good member

of the church. And she paid into the church. And she was a pianistin the church, and whatmore. What more could she do?Intellectually she was thinking she was right. But when it come to aplace...

You remember, your mind it's in--it's governed by the blood cells,and by the brain cells. And then when them blood cease tofunction to those brain cells, then the mind begin to... the

intellectual part begin to die out of the woman. And when it beginto die out, and she begin to see, when that... this... spirit downhere in her heart, which is her soul, went toward God... Deathmeans separate.

And if you sin, disbelieve willfully, after Gospel's been presented toyou, that soul nature of yours will gradually move away from you,and you'll feel it no more, just drawed away. You won't know it.

SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION. 56-0128E-50 050 Now, when the woman realized that this inspiration wason her, she obeyed exactly, because she knowed it was inharmony with the supernatural.

Say, "What are you talking about, Brother Branham?" I'm trying tobase your faith on a level with God being almighty, and supreme,

and all powerful, and omnipotent. And He hasn't changed. Hisnature doesn't change. My nature might change; yours mightchange; but God's nature will never change. If He's still the greatJehovah God that created the heavens and earth and had allpowers in His hand, He's still the same Jehovah tonight. If He'sAlmighty God, He can do all things. If He can't do all things, He's

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not Almighty God. Inspiration tells you that. Reasonings will say it'snot so, but inspiration says it is so, inspiration from the soul notfrom the mind.

It's mind reasonings, theology, manmade so called, will make youvery religious; it'll make you just as religious and keep the sabbathdays and do all these other things, but will deny the existence ofthe Almighty to perform miracles and do supernatural. Didn't theSpirit say in the last days they'd be that way, "Heady, high minded,having a form of godliness but would deny the power thereof; fromsuch turn away"? Wake up, Church.

How did Abel know how to offer the right sacrifice? He wasinspired.

CHURCH AND ITS CONDITION. CH 1-34 56-080574 052 I want you to notice this animal too, this little animal; it wasa silent lamb because it didn't... When He was reviled, He revilednot again. He didn't rail and carry on, and fuss and stew, and go

on, He didn't do it. When somebody... When He was reviled, Hereviled not again. He opened not His mouth.

But you let somebody do something to you or me, oh, my, we blowup like a toad frog eating buckshot, puff out like a--like an oldgoose. "I'll tell you right now; he step on my toes like that again, I'llnever go back to that old church again. No, sir. Bless God.Hallelujah. The Nazarenes will receive me, the Pilgrim Holiness,

they'll take me. Hallelujah. I don't have to do it no more." All right,the Dove takes Its flight.

76 053 "You know what? If that old hypocrite goes to that church,I'll never go again. Bless God, I'll never do it." When that thingstrikes you, that old snarling wolf, the Dove takes Her flight. That'sright. Then the Holy Ghost is gone.

Then you wonder what's the matter with you. You wonder what'sthe matter with the church. You wonder what's the matter with you.Why ain't you got victory like you used to have? You changed yournature. You become a goat instead of a lamb. You becomesomething else besides a lamb.

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You've got to get that real meek Spirit, "Let the Holy Ghost lead mewherever. God, I love every sinner, no matter where they are."That kind of a place get in the human heart, then you're going tosee something happen. Your soul.

You say, "Well, Brother Branham, is there any solution for it?" Yes,just become a lamb; that's all. You say, "Well, Brother Branham..."

THEN JESUS CAME. 57-0302E-75 075 And here stands Spanish, Indian, Anglo-Saxon, Irish,German, all different types of people. As Thou has died to save the

world, and Abraham called the father of nations. Through the seed,by Isaac come Christ; through Christ's death, we become dead tothe things of the world and joint-heirs with Him and are Abraham'sseed. And we call those things which are not, as though they--asare as though they were not, because we believe God's Word.With the operation of the Holy Spirit, Who could raise a rank sinnerfrom his seat and send him up here to this altar... Something'shappened. Something's taken place.

How could a pig ever be told that he's wrong? How could the lambever make the pig believe that his diet was wrong? Never couldhe, until the nature of the pig had been changed. O God, that'swhat You've done to these people tonight. You've convinced themthat they're wrong, and they want their nature changed. And youchanged their attitude and brought them to this altar. And here theystand as committed souls

LAMB AND THE DOVE. 57-0325E-66 066 Now, let's go to prayer. Now, as we bow our heads inprayer, remember that Dove setting right out there in front of you.He just wants to come back. "How can I do it, Brother Branham?"Just be a lamb. Just be a lamb. Just say, "God, I--I'm sorry I did allthat I did. Tonight I'm coming back. I'm going to be a lamb fromtonight on."

E-67 067 Now, heavenly Father, You see their hands, and I'm soglad that--for this city of Oakland, to see the--the contamination ofthe great masses of things has never struck this city yet, and someof the things that's happened. Or at least, Lord, You still gotchildren that's hungering and thirsting. I thank Thee for them. And I

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pray that You'll bless them, Lord, just abundantly, and give to themthe deep desire of their heart.

Move, Holy Spirit, fly right down on every one of them hearts justnow. And may way down deep in their soul, not some outwardemotion, but way down deep in the soul, they can feel just a sweet,humble, soothing something coming over them, knowing that that'sGod coming back, as they're changing that old nature that they didhave and becoming a lamb. The Holy Spirit's coming right in like aDove to abide there, just abide. And may from this hour on, maythey live godly, humble Christian lives. May You lead them from

victory unto victory until the day that You're finished with us onearth and then receive us in glory. For we ask it in Christ's Name.Amen.

GREAT COMMISSION. 57-0804AE-24 024 Now, Divine healing and salvation for the soul is not onthe same basis. Jesus died that He might save us. When we'resaved, we're saved eternally. But when we're healed, physically,

we'll get sick again. But the soul is the immortal part, and Jesussaid, "He that heareth My words, believeth on Him that sent Me,hath (that's present tense), Everlasting Life and it shall never cometo the judgment, but is passed from death unto life." That settles it.

Then when we are borned again, we're a new creature. And thatsoul is a part of God. The Eternal Life there comes from the Greekword, "Zoe," which means "God's own Life." That makes us sons

and daughters of God. We can no more perish than God canperish, 'cause you're a part of Him.

E-25 025 But you... When you're sick in your physical body, untilthis body has been redeemed, it's subject to sickness again.Exactly right. Now... But it's got to die. It's got to perish. So did thesoul have to perish, the thoughts. The soul is the nature of thespirit. And those thoughts and so forth in you had to perish, before

the new man could be borned into you to make you a new creaturein Christ

THIRSTING FOR LIFE. 58-0611E-14 014 So let us turn tonight, that I've chosen for a subject orreading, Scripture reading, out of the Psalms, 63rd Psalm. And I

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wish to read just a portion of it here, the 1st, and 2nd, andperhaps, 3rd verse.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seekThee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my fleshlongeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land,where no water is.

To see thy power and thy glory, as I haveseen it in thy sanctuary.

Because thy lovingkindness is better thanlife, my lips shall praise thee.

E-15 015 Did ever you read such words? "How my soul longeth forThee in a thirsty land, where no water is." This is rather an unusualtext, but God is unusual; God does unusual things, and He worksin mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.

And we're living in an unusual day and an unusual time, but we'reserving the God that's been in all times. And when I thought ofthis... You know, my soul thirsts for Thee... If your soul is whatdirects you, it's what makes you what you are. A conversion is... Asoul is the nature of the spirit. And when a man is converted, hedoesn't get another spirit. He gets a spirit change, a conversionmeans to change his thinking, change his way of living and soforth. So my soul thirsts for Thee.

is just not exactly like a human being. Some medicine will helpsome people and kill others. So there is a question on that, abouttaking the medicine.But there's no question on God's Balm, His Toxin; It works onwhosoever will, let him come that he might drink from the fountainof the Lord. It's not questioned.

BALM IN GILEAD. 59-0707E-20 020 Please, will you excuse this rude, most rude expression.I do not say it to be bad. I do not say it with malice. I say it withlove. Last Saturday, wife and I were going to the grocery. And ourlittle city's just about thirty-seven thousand in population. And theyhave a new shopping center, which all the people goes out to this

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Youngstown Shopping Center on Saturday, because many of thegreat chain stores are there.

And as we drove, of the hundreds of women we passed, we foundone with a skirt on. The rest of them were dressed so immorally.My wife said to me; she said, "Billy, look. Don't you believe thatthat woman knows that she's naked?"I said, "I don't think so."

She said, "If she doesn't know she's naked, then she's out of hermind."

I said, "No, she's just an American. She follows the Americantrend. She acts like the rest of the Americans does."

Well she said, "Then aren't we Americans?"

I said, "As citizenship of our flesh, we are. But we are pilgrims andwe are strangers here; and we are seeking a City to come." I said,

"That's the reason that one American is different from the other.Our spirits has been born from above. And in that land where wecome from, the nature and the habits of that land is holiness,cleanliness, godliness. And if the Spirit of that land moves into us,then this land is strange to us." 'Cause your soul and your spiritmotivates you; it makes you what you are. And you'll never be ableto join churches and get that out of you; you'll still be a churchmember and make fun of people who preach against such

immorals.

E-21 021 You've got to be borned again from above. Then you arenew creatures in Christ Jesus, and you're as Abraham was; you'rehis children. You are seeking a City whose Builder and Maker isGod. That's why you act different. That's why you see thingsdifferent. You never get customized to this world, because you'refrom above. You act like the Kingdom you belong in.

I'm glad to be a citizen of America. I think it's the best. But, ohbrother, I hate to trust that would being my salvation. The Americanspirit is vulgarity, evil.

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Every kingdom in the world is controlled by the devil. The Biblesaid so. Satan said, "These are all mine to do with them whatever Iwant to."

Jesus never denied it. But He knew He was going to fall heir tothem in the millennium. And He said, "Get thee behind me, Satan."No wonder the Scriptures said, "Rejoice, ye heavens and all yeearth, for the kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms ofour Lord and of His Christ." Yes. It makes a difference.

WHO IS THIS. 59-1004M

E-38 038 Now, it isn't so much of what other people think that. Thething we're thinking about this morning is, Who do you think It is?It's up to you and I. Is it just the fellowship of a denomination calledPentecostal, Church of God, Pilgrim Hol--or Nazarene, orsomething like that, Church of God, Assemblies of God, UnitedPentecostal church, Is that what It is? If that's it, you're miserable.That's it, your religion is just a religion; it has no salvation in it.

But if you examined it and found it in your soul to be Jesus Christ,the Son of God, then blessed is he that cometh in the Name of theHoly Spirit. Hosanna in the highest to him that cometh in the HolyGhost, because it is Jesus Christ's own Spirit in His Churchmaking you sons and daughters of His, giving you His nature, foryou'll live with the Father also in the eternal times to come. "Who isit? What's this all about?" And the coming of the Holy Spirit hasalways brought such.

FELLOWSHIP. 60-0611B

E-35 035 Now, there... Just like you living your life, you live thesame thing. And if... You only live in a three room house. God livedin a three room house: soul, body, and spirit. God lived in a--in athree room house: it's Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And you live ina three room house. The Spirit comes to a three room house:

justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

And you live in a three house, natural. First, you have the kitchen.Next you have is a parlor. And next you have, is a bedroom.

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Notice a young couple, before they can complete in that a phileolove, or phileo love... Before... What's the first thing? Is they makea promise one to another. They get married. And they live in thisthree room house. Now, you might have two bedrooms. You mighthave a--a extra dining room, but you only still living in three rooms.And you living in this body, as a three room house: soul, body,spirit. Everything, that you--anywhere you want to go through,nature or whatevermore, it's all comes to those threes. God isperfected in that number three.

LAMB AND DOVE. 60-0805

E-16 016 Now, in the ark the dove and the crow set on the sameroost. Both of them were birds, one of could fly where the otherone flew. One could do just anything the other one could do. Butwhen they were turned loose to take their choice, they turned thedove loose first, and the little fellow flew about, and the Bible said,"She could find no rest for the soles of her feet." Every time shecould find something to set on, it was a dead carcass, an old deadsomething of the world, and she could not light on that. Why, it was

against her nature.

And if a man is ever born with that Spirit of the Dove in him, I don'tsay he won't leave, something might happen he'd fly loosesomewhere, but if he really had that Dove Spirit, he will find no restfor the soul that's in him. Backslider, you're the most miserableperson in the world. You can't find pleasure anywhere. You'll soundlike you're testimony like Peter said, "To whom should we go?

Where can we go? You're the only One that has the Words ofEternal Life."

And a real borned again Christian sometimes might get angry atsomething done in the church; it'll poison his system. But if he's areal dove, he will come back, just as sure as God's in heaven, hewill do it, because there's something in him that won't let him lighton them old dead carcasses, out to a rock-and-roll party, or a beer

joint, they simply stink to him. To any borned again Christian, theyjust can't stand it, because he has no gall in him to digest such athing.

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REVELATION CHAP. 4. PT 2. 24 ELDERS. 61-0101230 098 Now, he... John, where's John standing? At the court.Let's just read just a little farther here so you get the picture.

And out of the throne proceed lightnings... thunders... voices: andthere was seven lamps of fire... (Wait till we get to that.)... burningbefore the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God...

Reflecting the Light of God into the church, right straight from thethrone of God. Not through a seminary, not through some bishop;but from the throne of God by a revelation of the power of His

resurrection, making Him the same yesterday and forever. Themseven stars standing there reflecting that Light, the Shekinah Light,from the Shekinah Glory from the holiest of holy. Seven lamps onfire, setting on top of these candlesticks, reflecting His Light, Hiscolors of His power of His resurrection, right into the church. Amen.Hm.

And before the throne... was a sea of glass liken unto crystal: and

in the midst of the throne, and around about the throne, were fourbeasts full of eyes before and behind.

And he goes ahead and he begins to give this--these beasts, thesame thing Ezekiel saw: them guards, one like a man, one like alion, and one like the eagle. What was it? Now, watch, when webring them in and show that Lion of the tribe of Judah and all thosedifferent ones out of their tribes, that set on four walls, and they

were guarding this mercy seat. Oh, what a picture. Oh, I just...There's great days ahead.

233 099 As we seen them... Now, that was God's throne inheaven. Moses patterned it on earth, was God's throne becauseHis judgment seat was represented here on earth in the holy ofholies. God... All Israel come to that one place to find mercy,'cause God only met under the shed blood.

Now, listen close. Then the Shekinah glory raised from that mercyseat one day, and it settled on another Tabernacle (Amen.), thisOne, "The Father judges no man, but He's committed all judgmentto the Son": God's Judgment Seat. "You speak against Me, it'll beforgiven you," speak another--another One coming, another Mercy

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Seat. Speak... You can speak against the Son of man, and I willforgive you; but someday the Holy Spirit will come to dwell in thehearts of the people, one word against It will never be forgiven."

235 100 It keeps getting more severe and more severe all thetime, the judgment, 'cause God's continually wearing His patienceout, trying to get sinners to come to Him to be reconciled. First, Hewas in the heavens above and shining in the stars. The second,He was on earth shining through the Shekinah Glory. Next, Hecome and was made flesh and dwelled among us, still wearing Hispatience. Then He redeemed man by His Blood, came into His

church in the form of the Holy Ghost, and speak against That it's afinished thing, done.

Now, you can see where the shaking come. We're at a time theydon't realize. People can't comprehend what it means.

237 101 Now, the first throne was in heaven, judgment seat. Thesecond throne was in Christ; the third throne is in man.

Now, let me take this little thing that I got drawed here. We're goingto make... I wished I had a blackboard, and I could make it maybemore sensible for you. We're going to take and draw the courts,only make it in a round ring, or like this, either one. Now, we'regoing to take... I believe, like this maybe would be the best; we'regoing to take and make the courts.

Now, what is a man? He's a triune being: body, soul, and spirit.How many knows that? Watch God's approach. What is his heart?You remember my message, "God Chose a Man's Heart for HisControl Tower?" The Devil chose his head for his control tower.See? He makes him see things, look through his eyes. But yetGod in his heart makes him believe things that he cannot see.See? See, God is on his heart; in the heart of man is the throne ofGod. You get it? Man... God made His throne in the heart of man.

Now, watch. What's the first part of the man? The first part of theman is body. The next part is his soul, which is the nature of hisspirit that makes him what he is. He approaches now. Now, thethird part of the man is his spirit, and his spirit is in the center of his

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heart, and in the center of the heart is where God comes for thethrone.

241 102 You remember, recently, the--the papers give in Chicagoabout four years ago, when the old believer--old unbeliever, rather,used to say that God made a mistake through Solomon when Hesaid, "As a man thinketh in his heart." Said, "There's no mentalfaculties in the heart to think with. How could he think with hisheart? He have to--he meant his head."

If God would've meant his head, He'd have said his head.

Like Moses, what if Moses... God would've said, "Moses, take offyour shoes; you're on holy ground."

He said, "Oh, well, I'll take off my hat, that's just as good"? He saidshoes. He didn't say hat; He said shoes.

244 103 And when He said, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name

of Jesus Christ," He didn't mean Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Hemeant just what He said.

When He said, "You must be born again," He didn't say, "Youought to be."

He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." He neversaid, "Maybe they will."

He says what He means. And He's God and He can't take it back.He knows what's perfect, so He makes it that way, and that's theway He--he intends it to be, and you have to come up to that, notHim come down to your idea, you got to come up to His idea.That's the difference.

248 104 Now, now, on this system of body, soul... Now, if you'll get

the word "soul" and look it up, it'll tell you in the--in the Bibledictionary or Webster, any of them, it is "the nature of the spirit."

Now, here's a man, we'd say, here's John Doe. All right, John Doe,and here's Sam Doe. All right. Now, John Doe is a man, body, he'sa brother to Sam Doe. Now, John is a spirit, soul, body; and Sam

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The next time He come, He has to come into the soul; that's thenature. "Oh, what will the Joneses say about me? Oh, my. Youknow, my church will kick me out if I--if I do something like that."See? But you got to walk through that.

257 107 And when you walk through that, then He goes into theheart and there's where He's throned. That's the Holy Spirit in you.Jesus said, "It'd be far better that a millstone was hanged at yourneck and you was drowned in the depths of the sea, than to evenoffend one of these little ones that believe in Me." Not do them anyharm; just even to bring offense to them, just upset them about

something. It'd be better that you had your own-self drowned, orhad never been borned on the earth, than even to bring an offenseto one. Did He mean it? Could He lie? Did the apostles say it? No.Jesus said it. Jesus said, "If you even bring an offense to one ofthem, these little ones that believe in Me."

REVELATION CHAP.4 PT.3.THRONE MERCY. 61-0108224 096 Now, now, there's one way to get into the body. How's this

body controlled? Now, watch real close now and you get yourpencils ready. Here's the gate on this side that goes into the body:one, two, three, four, five. Now, you got that drawed? Now, the firstgate over here is, see, smell, hear, and taste, and touch or feel(either one it wants to be, doesn't matter). Now, that's the sensesin the body. Is that right? How many knows that? Six sensescontrol the body. Now, we got a soul after you get through this. Thesenses is outside; that's the outer system.

Now, in here there's one, two, three, four, five, five attributes in thesoul. Now, you want to write them down? The first one isimagination, imagination. The second one is conscience. And thethird one is memory. And the fourth one is reason. And the fifth oneis affection.

Now, did you get them all? If you don't, then let me know now. Yougot them all down? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear: the body,

that's the open to the body.

The soul is imagination, conscience, memory, reason, andaffection, is the senses or the attributes, or like the senses of thesoul. And the soul is the nature of the spirit that's on the inside,'cause the soul only puts out an atmosphere of what's on the

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inside of you. It takes the place of sanctification, the soul is, sets inthe same category there. All right, now, every--everybody got thatall down? All right.

228 097 Now, to this gate there's only one, one gate, that's called"self will." You're the boss of what goes in there. And what does itdo? What is this? The body must be washed, the laver; sanctified,at here; filled with the Holy Spirit here, and this becomes God's

judgment seat again, where God sets in your heart, if you dosomething wrong, say, "Oh, my, I did wrong."

Some people say, "It don't condemn me to--to wear short hair," thewomen. "It don't condemn me to wear manicure or makeup," orwhatever it is. "It don't condemn me to go to dances. It don'tcondemn me to tell a little white lie. It don't condemn me to playbridge at my bridge party." You know why? You ain't got nothing tocondemn. "That don't hurt my conscience." You got no moreconscience than a snake has hips. So you just... You ain't got noconscience; there ain't nothing there will hurt you. You're of the

world.

But I challenge you to let Jesus Christ come in here and try to do itone time. Brother, you'll be so condemned you'll back off andshake your head from that thing just as certain as I'm standinghere, 'cause He's holy. Listen, I'm quoting the Scripture, "If youlove them things (That's the world.), things of the world, it'sbecause the love of God's not even in you."

231 098 "How is self-will? Why will you call that self-will, BrotherBranham?" Because it puts a man and woman back again just likeAdam and Eve at the garden of Eden, On what? The two trees?Self-will, this one is death. This one is Life, self-will. Immoral...Free moral agency... God placed the first man, Adam and Eve,right here on free moral agency. He places you the same place.And the only way that you can get this thing fixed in here is your

own self-will. Hallelujah. Your self-will. You have to will to do God'swill. You have to get rid of your own will to let God's will come in,for this is the only channel that leads to the heart.

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MESSIAH THE. 61-0117E-18 018 Now, for instances when a man gets saved, he's justabout like... The Light that comes into him is about like this littlewhite button on my shirt. That's when God comes into the innerpart of a man. In the inner part of a man or... A man is made up inthe system of a tabernacle: in the outer courts, then holy place,and the holiest of holies; the Shekinah glory on the inside, the veil.

Now, on the outside gates of a man is his five senses that enters tohis body. On the inside, which is his soul, or the... The--the soul isthe nature of the spirit that's on the inside of his heart; produces

his soul, which makes the atmosphere around him. He has alsofive entrances.

Then on the inside he has only one gate, one entrance to go intothe Shekinah glory, where God can enter into him and take over inthe control tower. And that way is through self-will. Whether youwill to or not, that's up to you. But that's the only avenue that'sopen to the man that God can come into his heart, is by self-will.

Puts him right back like Adam and Eve on free moral agencyagain. You can choose right or wrong, either one you want to.

E-19 019 Now, self-will... Then God comes into the man, into theheart, which is the spirit. Then the spirit makes the soul, and thenthe soul dwells in the body. Now, when a man is converted, say,

just like that little white button starts in his heart. Now, that part isGod. God... When he's born again with the Spirit of God, God's

Spirit dwells in him.

Now, as... He can let that Spirit grow and take out all the roots ofbitterness, and press God's way through him again; he canbecome back in the same condition that he was when he was inthe garden of Eden. Jesus said in Mark 11:24: "Verily, verily, I sayunto you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubtin your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to

pass, you can have what you said." That puts him right backsupreme again. It puts him right back in the condition.

E-20 020 Now, we're made up of light meters. Inside of us iscosmic light. Now, that cosmic light is a light that they can take anx-ray with. The x-ray doesn't come from the x-ray light; it comes

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from your own light. And then if that cosmic light, say, could bepushed to a place to where not cosmic light but Eternal Light...God could dwell supremely, to do our thinking, do our walking, doour talking, then it's no longer the man; it's God in the man.

(I suppose I'm deafening you by this thing, 'cause I hear itrebound. It's got an awful voice. It isn't me; it's this. Now, see, lay itonto that.)

Now, he's got Light, Life. Eternal Life is the Light of God that dwellsin the man. And if he will yield to the Spirit, more he becomes

unman-sinner-like, and becomes more God-like.

E-21 021 Here not long ago they took an x-ray of a man prayingfor a sick man ("Reader's Digest" wrote it up), and found out a rayof light coming from one of the men (not all of them), but one of theman's hands reflected a ray of light when they put a piece of leadfoil beneath the man's hand. I guess you read it yourself.

In England they turned "the healers" (they called them) loose to allthe hospitals, and there was eighty percent more healing done byDivine healing than medical cures had performed. "Reader'sDigest" picked it up over here. That was in "Newsweek," and"Reader's Digest" picked it up and tried it.

And they find that there is a ray of light. When this man sincerely,not knowing they were doing it, put his hands upon a man and

prayed an earnest prayer, they was putting the x-ray down, andfound out a light coming from his hand. God knew what He talkedabout when He said, "Lay hands on the sick and they shallrecover." He knows what He was speaking of. Oh, I want to seethe church press into that place where it can come like God wantsit to be.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. COD 61-1015M

676-Q-157 074 157. Please explain the difference between thespirit and the soul.

Well, now that's a hard one. But the first thing you are, a triunebeing, just like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and HolyGhost is three titles going to one Person, which is Jesus Christ.

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And you're soul, body, and spirit. But it takes those three to makeyou. With just one of them, you're not you. It takes the three tomake you.

Like I said the other day, "This is my hand; this is my finger; this ismy nose; this is my eyes; but who's me?" Who is me that thisbelongs to? It's what's on the inside of me; that's the--theintelligence.

If this eyes, if this hands, if this body stood here just as it is today,yet I--I could... My body could be here, but me could be gone, what

I am. What--whoever I am inside of me has gone on. That's--that'sthe part--part that is the spirit. The soul is the nature of that spirit,that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, It does not do nothing...You... It changes or converts your spirit to a different soul. And thatsoul is a different nature that's on that spirit. So the soul is thenature of your spirit.

First you were mean, and evil, and hatred, and malice, and strife;

now you're loving, sweet, kind, and--and... See the difference? It'syour nature. We could... I'll call it that. It's your soul that's beenchanged. The old soul died, and the new soul which is the newnature was borned into you. See?

676-160 075 Your brain is not your intelligence; it's your spirit that'sin you is your intelligence. See? Your brain is a bunch of matterand cells and so forth; it has no intelligence in itself. If it did, then

as long as it laid there, whether you was dead or alive, it would stilloperate. See? But it's not--it's not your brain; it is your spirit insideof you. And your soul is the nature of that spirit. That's the soul ofthe spirit that controls--the spirit that controls the body. See? Thereyou are.

Now, I got to hurry, 'cause we're just getting a little bit late. Now, Ithink that--I hope that takes care of that.

TOKEN THE. 63-0901M10-1 040 Now, there's a life, a blood, a life, and a soul in the life.The soul is the nature of the life. Therefore it had no certain nature.It was an animal. Therefore, the blood stood for a token that thelife had been given.

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But in this glorious place, under this covenant, there is a differencebetween the Blood and the Life. The Token for the believer today isthe Holy Ghost, not a blood, a chemistry; but it is the Holy Spirit ofGod. That is the Token that God requires of the church today. Godmust see this Token. He must see it in every one of us.

Therefore, as the evening shadows are appearing, and the wrathis ready to be poured out from on high upon the ungodly nations,and upon the ungodly unbelievers, upon the--the professorswithout a possession, upon these things... And I've tried to unfold

myself and live right among it to see where it was standing before Isaid these things.

SOULS IN PRISON NOW. 63-1110M7-2 018 Now, remember the services tonight, the healingservice. I don't think it'd be necessary to give out prayer cards, sowe just pray for the sick. I have something that I want to tell you,and I--I hope that it'll just bring the congregation into a place till

where there'll be just all kinds of healing. I know it will be if we'lljust believe it that way.

Now, this, "Souls now in Prison--souls that are now in prison."Now, the soul of man is not the body of man; it's the soul (See?);and the soul is something that's the--the nature of the spirit, andthen when the nature of a man... When He said, "We are dead,"the Scripture plainly tells us that we are dead, and our lives are hid

in God through Christ, sealed there by the Holy Spirit.

Now, it wasn't that your body died. It wasn't your spirit died. It wasthe nature of your spirit died. See? The nature, which is the soul.The nature of your soul is--is God, if you're born again. If it's not,it's of the world.

7-5 019 Anything that begin, has to end. So therefore the only way

that you can have Eternal Life is to have a life that never did begin.And then your life did begin when you were born.

When God breathed the breath of life into your nostrils and youbecame a living soul, then you begin then. But when you... Thatnature that was in you, by nature you was of the world, alienated

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from God. You were actually an animal. That's exactly right.Anyone knows that we're mammal.

How many knows that, that we're mammal? We are a warm-blooded animal, but that is what we are by our earthly creation, butyou see, what made us different from other mammals was that,and God put a soul upon us. (See?)

7-6 020 Now, the other mammals don't have to wear clothes. Noother animal has to wear clothes to hide his shame, but us. We'rethe only ones that does, because we have a soul. But, see, God, in

the beginning knew what a man would be like, and He created theearth and brought up all kinds of animals, from the very lowest tothe highest; and the highest animal come forth was man.

8-1 021 And then... First, man was made; he was a spirit man inthe image of God; which God is a Spirit (Saint John 4). Now, He isa Spirit, and they that worship Him, worship Him in Spirit and inTruth, and Thy Word is the Truth. Now, we worship Him in Spirit

and Truth. He is a--a Spirit Being.

Then there was no man to till the soil, and then God formed manout of the dust of the earth. Then He taken from his side, abyproduct, a rib, and from that, separated this man which had adual nature, which was both feminish and masculine. And he takenthe feminish out 'cause it was love, and He placed it into a personcalled Eve, that Adam called Eve, which was his wife. That's where

his love, natural, phileo love held to his wife.

8-3 022 That's the way a man should be today, and her back to herhusband. The man, the masculine; the woman, the feminish. Andthen (See?), after He'd done made man in His Own image,"created He them, male and female," there was no man to till thesoil, and He put him in the dust of the earth, and therefore hebecome--he was that man.

This human man was mammal. See? He was animal, but He putthis spirit of God, a life into him and made him on the basis that hecould make a choice. And then when this man... Now, we thinkwe're something. Just remember, what are we? A clod of dirt.That's all. And because, "Dust thou art, dust thou shall return."

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8-5 023 So when you see this man walking down the street, thinkshe's somebody, you know, and got a little education, and things,you remember, it's a clod of Indiana dust. That's all. And thatwoman that's all dressed in shorts and smoking cigarettes andcarrying on down the street, twisting like she owned the wholecountry, it's a clod of Indiana dust, and that's the way it's turningback. So you're not very much to begin with. See? So that--that'sright. That's what you are. But that soul that's in there (See?), thatsoul is what God is working on.

8-6 024 See, if He can only get that nature of that spirit to agreewith Him, then that nature dies. The nature and the love of theworld dies and the things of the world is dead (See?); because ifyou love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is notin you. See?

And a man must be born again, so this nature has to die, and thenature of God comes and lives in you. And God is the only thing

there is that never did begin or never can end.

9-1 025 So therefore He has partnershipped (You see?), and takenthis man, earthly, and this eternal Spirit and put it together.Because God reflected Himself back in that He become a manwhen He become Christ Jesus, and He Was God. (See?) God wasin Christ...?... lived in Him, reconciled the world to Himself, andthrough that perfect Man, each one of us imperfect that believe in

God and has accepted that, becomes a perfection of Him.

TOKEN THE. 64-030829 015 Now, the animal life could not come back in the human,because they wouldn't match; the animal life has no soul in it. Thehuman life has a soul. The animal doesn't know he's naked. Hedoesn't know right from wrong. He--he's just... He has a--a spirit,but not a soul. Now remember, now the soul is the nature of the

spirit, of course.

Now watch, but then when the Life of our Sacrifice, Jesus Christ,when His Blood was shed. He was God bottled up in one Man.Now, He come down from being Jehovah to identify Himself as ahuman being, to take upon Himself the form of man to identify us

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with Him. He was the Lamb of God. And on the inside of Him,where the Blood...

KNOWETH IT NOT. 65-081517-3 046 Now--now that the church--that His very whole purposewas the church. Now, how do we get into this church? By oneSpirit we're all baptized into one body, The church, the body ofChrist; it cannot fail. Now, here's what happens. Now, watch this,

just a little figurative picture here.

Now, this outside man is the flesh. That's what we look at, what we

see. And it has five inlets to that body. And any grammar schoolchild as myself, would know that there's five senses control thebody: see, taste, feel, smell and hear. Without that, you can't touchthe body. That's the only way you have to the body: see, taste,feel, smell and hear. See it, taste it, feel it. Now, that is the evil oneon the outside.

17-5 047 Now, inside of that is a spirit, which you become when

you're borned in here and the breath of life is breathed into you,that spirit is of a worldly nature, because it was not given fromGod, but it was given, permitted by God. Now, you got that?

For every child that's borned in the world is borned in sin, shapedin iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. Is that right? So thatperson inside there is a sinner to begin with. But now, it's got fiveinlets, and them five inlets... I don't know whether I can call them

right off now. First, I know is thought, conscience, and love,choice... No conscience, love, reason, there's five inlets to thespirit. You can't think with your body; you have to think with yourspirit. You can't have conscience in your body. It has no mentalfaculties at all, your body doesn't. So you have to think with yourspirit. You have to reason. You can't reason with your physicalbeing, 'cause reason doesn't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear.Reason is what you can make in your mind.

If you're asleep or you're out; your body's lying there dead, butyour spirit can still reason; there's five senses that controls thatinside man. And that... Now, to the last man, which is the soul.There's only one sense that controls that, and that is, free moralagency, free will, to choose or to reject.

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THIRST. 65-091929 012 Now, we find, God gives the control tower to you, to give toyou the things that you need. Now, the control tower in you is whatdirects you. And this thirst runs in on this cold--tower, control tower,and tells you what you have need of, spiritually speaking. Thecontrol tower in the body, and in the soul also. There's a controltower in the body that tells you the need that's needed in yourbody, and it's brought to you by thirst. Also there's a control towerin your soul, that tells you the spiritual things that you have needof, something in your spirit, and--and you by this can tell what kind

of a life is controlling you.

When you--when you can see what your desires are, then you cantell by that what kind of something that's in you, that's creating thisdesire that you have. See, there's a certain thing that you thirst for,and it--and it can tell you in your soul what this desire is by thenature of the thirst that you have. I hope that you can understandthat.

31 013 There is a--a control tower of the soul, and one for thebody, and each tower is a warning caller for the needs of the other.Each one calls to the need for what the caller is calling for; it sendsout a wave of warning.

For instance, the--the flesh thirsts to satisfy the desires that's in thebody, and the spirit desires for the things that's in the soul desire

is, and many times these war one against the other. We find there,what's a great trouble today, that too many people try to livebetween those two desires. For one of them desires the things ofthe earth; the other desires the things of heaven.

33 014 Like Paul said, describes it in Romans 7:21, "When I woulddo good, then evil is nigh." When you try, did you ever have that inexperience, Christians, that when you're trying to do something

that's worthwhile, go to make an effort to do something that's good,then you find out that there is the Devil on every hand, just to upsetyou, everything that you'd... And that's one good thing that I'd liketo say this, that the Christians might know that when you're--whenyou're starting to do something, and there's something always

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trying to upset you in doing it, do it anyhow. That's the Devil theretrying to keep you from doing what's right.

THINGS THAT ARE TO BE. 65-1205101 074 There's two--there's three people of you; the outside is thebody. You got five senses that you contact your earthly home withthat. The inside is a spirit. There's five senses there: love, andconscience, and so forth you contact. But the inside of that is thesoul.

Remember, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. The same rain

that'll make a grain of wheat grow, makes a cocklebur grow too.See? What is it? At the inside of that seed is a nature, and thatnature displays itself. It can stand in the same field, right there withthe weed. The weed and the wheat stand together, rejoice just asmuch. It's head down; it's starving for a drink. When a rain comes,the cocklebur can shout just as loud as the wheat can. But by theirfruits you shall know them. See?.

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