The credentials

What a beautiful setting that is! If we would just go deep now and listen: that was the credentials that was to hang onto every man that went forth preaching the Gospel. And no man has a right to preach the Gospel without the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus would not let Peter, James, John, any of the rest of them, preach the Gospel until they waited in the city of Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost had filled them, because it’s the Holy Ghost that makes the Word of God go into action. See?

I Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

He said, “Go ye into all the world.” Now, somebody wants to chop that commission off, two thousand years ago. But He said, “All the world, to every creature. These signs shall follow in all the world, and to every creature.” See? And that was the signs that was to follow, to approve the identification. The Bible said, “The Gospel came to us not in word only, but through the power, manifestations of the Holy Ghost.” In other words, “It’s the Holy Ghost taking the Word of God and making It manifest.” See? And, otherwise, the only way that the signs of Mark 16 can follow the believer is that the Holy Spirit Himself takes the Word of God and demonstrates it to the people. That’s it. Now, faith makes that Word live. See? The Word is God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” And then Jesus said, “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, ask what you will, it’ll be done for you.” See? That’s staying with Christ in the Word.

Don’t go right or left. Stay right with it. See? And then it’s actually not your Word, then. It’s His Word, and His Word has the power and authority behind It. Now, and if the Holy Spirit, which is God’s Word, or the power of God’s Word, comes in with God’s Word, it’ll make God’s Word display Itself. …Go ye into all the world, and demonstrate the Gospel to every creature. And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;…he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe;… What a beautiful setting that is! If we would just go deep now and listen: that was the credentials that was to hang onto every man that went forth preaching the Gospel. And no man has a right to preach the Gospel without the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Jesus would not let Peter, James, John, any of the rest of them, preach the Gospel until they waited in the city of Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost had filled them, because it’s the Holy Ghost that makes the Word of God go into action. See?

 

William Branham