72 If you’re Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, whatever you may be, if you find Jesus as your own personal Saviour, not through the shaking hands with the preacher, or the doctrines of a creed, but through the finding of the Lord Jesus. And the churches today, making their creeds thus, they’re robbing God. They’re taking their doctrines, and making the commandments of God of none effect. It doesn’t have the effect upon the people. Why? Because our man-made theology, our doctrines and our creeds, has shut the blessings off from the people, and they don’t have the opportunity to receive It. They know nothing about It. They just know that they belong to church. And that’s why we have not fellowship, the churches, one with another. That’s why that they have a revival and the other churches won’t cooperate with them, a certain denomination, because they say, “It’s not my faith.”
73 There’s only one Faith. The Bible said so. Not faith in a creed; not faith in a denomination. But faith in God. That’s the only faith that there is. “One faith, one Lord, and one baptism.” The Scripture says so.
74 And now, after going, journey all day, looking among their kinfolks, and they couldn’t find Him.
75 I wonder, tonight, how many people in here has went over to the Baptist church and took up with the Baptist. Now, there’s nothing…
76 I’m not kicking against churches. I’m for every one of them. But, what I’m for, it’s…against, is, they’re making their creeds, and drawing lines and boundaries. If every church stayed right straight on the Bible, and just read It the way, and don’t tamper with It, just leave It the way God wrote It, but they’ll go a little piece, say, “Oh, that was for another age.” It’s no other age. God is the same yesterday, today and forever.
77 Now, you’ll go a day’s journey, and you’ll look around and you’ll see a certain creed, and then you’ll think, “Well, maybe this is it.” And you’ll go in and you’ll look around. There’ll be someone in there that will do something. You’ll say, “This is not it.”
78 You’ll get your letter from that church and take it over to another. And then you’ll be in there for a few days, or maybe weeks, or months, or even years. Somebody will upset that little applecart of yours, and away you’ll go with your letter, somewhere else; and from there, to somewhere. You’re never settled. The Bible said, “You’re like wandering stars, ships without sails, tossed about by every wind of doctrine.” When, the Bible forbids us to do that.
79 Be stable. Know where you’re standing. Don’t base it…Now, you can be honestly sincere with that, being stable. You can be a stable Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, or whatever more, just as stable. But don’t be stable in your church doctrine. Be stable in the Bible Doctrine. Then examine your doctrines by the Bible. Ask what Jesus was. If He isn’t the same today, then your doctrine is wrong.
80 You have an example. And He said, “I am your example. I have given you an example, that you should do to each other, as I have did unto you.” Saint John 13.
81 Now, but you find out, that’s what happens. Now, there’s only one real way to find Him then, if she couldn’t find Him among the kinfolks. She went back to where she left Him.
82 That’s what the church ought to do. Go back where you left Him at, and there you’ll find Him, you Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostals, and Assemblies of God, and all of you, Branham Tabernacle’s, and so forth. Go back where you left Him at.
58-1002 - But From The Beginning It Was Not So
Rev. William Marrion Branham
8 окт 2024
