Now, God, when He made man in the beginning, He made him superior to anything on earth. He gave him the jurisdiction of everything on earth: to control everything. He controlled the animal life. He controlled the—the fowl life, the fishes of the sea. He controlled the winds. He controlled the plant life. He controlled everything.

9 Man was made as a secondary god on earth. He was given the power to control all things, all elements of the earth. That was Adam. Adam was given these great powers. But then the power that he was given to make hisself, is where he fell.

And Adam could speak to the winds and it would stop. He could speak to the trees and they would obey him. He could speak to the wildlife; it would obey him. He could speak to the waters, ever what it was. Everything obeyed Adam.

Now, that is the beginning of man. That’s what God give him power over: everything on the earth. Now, though the fall he lost that power, then he becomes unconscious of the fact, after losing his relationship and friendship, fellowship with the Father. Then he lost that. And all of his great channels become clogged up, and He couldn’t get through.

Now, what Adam was in God, Christ has redeemed us back to that. Now, a redeemer, to redeem anything is to bring it back to it’s—to it’s origin again.

10 And Adam never had to be sick. He never had to die. He never had a worry. He never had a heartache. He never had fear. He just climbed up in the arms of the Father and just like a child. Everything was his. And whatever he asked, why he just got it. Everything obeyed him, because he was God’s child; and the child is heir of all things.

Now, when man fell, he lost this. And now what he lost in the fall, Christ come as a Redeemer. Did you ever stop to think what Christ redeemed us for? He gave us Everlasting Life. He brought us back to the eternal fellowship and relationship to God to be His sons and daughters again, to restore back all that Adam lost in the fall.

11 Now, the thing of it is, since He has restored man back to this place, man in the fall has lost his conscious of what Father put him here on earth to do. In other words, all of the plumbing, as it was, in our brain, and the outlets, the faith, has been clogged up with business affair, with home life, domestic things. It’s all become so clogged—clogged up with that until God can’t operate through those channels that He made a man for.

Now, when God made the human body, every little part had it’s place to play: the teeth, the tongue, the eyes, the nose. God does everything in there to make it perfect in operation to make the man to live. And if God so patterned the man, the body of a man, how much more has He patterned and set in order the Body of Christ, the Church?

12 If God designed man’s body, He certainly designed the Body of His Son, the Church. And He’s designed us to come together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and have these supernatural workings of God, outlets, through gifts of the spirit such as prophecy, and wisdom, and knowledge, and—and gifts of healing. And all these other different gifts is outlets that God lets out His power and lets out His revelation to the people.

And not as an individual so much, but as a unit we’re all together one great body of believers. And how do we get into this Body, the mystic Body of the Lord Jesus? By one Spirit we’re all baptized into this Body.

Now, Satan by the laws of sin and death makes everything that sin and death bought operate to Satan sends a cancer. The man recognized it, receives it. Satan sends heartaches. We recognize it and receive it.

13 And if Satan by his power can make his laws work in man, how much more ought God with His power make His laws work in man? If Satan can make his laws, be sure and us recognize it, how much more ought God to His children to make His laws be recognized among His people of Divine healing, revelation, power, gifts, manifestations of the Spirit.

The law of sin and death works in the people, and the law of liberty of Christ has come unto us to set us free from those things.

So I believe this with all my heart. I believe that we’re nearing the age that when people are going to recognize these things. That we’ve had so much vain philosophy, and so forth, and teachings that ought not to be, until it has set the human mind to a revolution of thinking on matters of this and that, and taking it away from the Word of God.

As I’ve said, faith doesn’t come by fasting. Faith doesn’t come by praying, reading a book. All of that’s good: fasting, praying, and reading—reading a book. But faith comes by a—a settled something that’s in the human heart, that tells you just as sure as you come to this church tonight… When you come home, you told your wife you’d be home after the service was over, you do that unconsciously. You just go out and get in your car and go on home. Now, you could not do it, unless you have faith you could do it. You’d never move from where you’re setting, if you didn’t have faith you could raise up. But you’ve done it so much, and you just become so accustomed to those laws, till it’s a natural thing.

14 Now, if we could throw ourself completely to God and to His will and be lost to our own thoughts, and just let the mind of Christ be in us, them same operations of the Spirit would work through us just as the natural things does, just the same thing. Because we were first created for that pur—purpose to control, to rule, and to praise God and to live for God.

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    Rev. William Marrion Branham

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