Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. (Jude 1:3)
2 And now, last evening, we were speaking on earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. And how, that God met with us, and let us know what kind of a faith that they had. And so, today, we are earnestly contending for this same faith that was once delivered to the saints. And to see that we are contending for it…
Now, that isn’t contending with each other, with the Methodists contending with the Baptists, the Presbyterian, or—or the Pentecostal, or whatever, we are just contending against the wiles of the devil, against Buddhism, and against Mohammedanism, and the hundreds of idols and gods of the world, and against the god of America, the god of Canada, many of their idols of worldliness. We’re contending that there’s one true, living God, and that He’s just as live tonight, as He ever was. And that we are not here just with a fictitious belief; we’re not here all emotionally wrapped up in some emotion, or psychology, or enthusiasm. We’re here in the Presence of the living, resurrected Jesus Christ, Who stands with us each night, and proves Himself to be alive, raised from the dead, and is here with us, now.
3 And I tell you, it’s makes the heart of a man or a woman really rejoice with great exceedingly joy to know that we are not just making up something, we’re not just trying to… I’m so glad that—that the thing that I am talking about is truth, that Jesus Christ…
One time I worked for a utility company. They had a campaign on, and they were selling electric lights and the low-bowl lamps, General Electric. And they—they had a… See who could sell the most, no prizes, just see who could get, sell the most. And we, all the men together, were having a… I was a linesman and many others were salesmen. But before I’d ever go in to sell the lamp, before I would misrepresent anything to people, I had to know first what it was. So I went to the company, and I said, “Now what about this lamp, what is it? What’s it made of? What—what—what will you do? What do you stand behind it?”
4 And they told me all about it, how long it was guaranteed and so still, I thought, “I’m going to try one of them awhile to see what it’s made out of, before, even if the word of the company… I have to experience it myself to see what it’s made out of. Being an electrician at the time, I took the thing apart, took every movement out of it to find out just exactly how it was made up, how the switches, how they were tightened down, and how the wires run and the current, how it was insulated, and how the reflector would work, and how tight it was, and what the material was. And I found out that it was a really a real light. So when I went to a person’s house to sell the lamp, not being a salesman, but I—I sold more lamps than all of them, because I took in there with the knowing in my heart that what I was talking about was the truth.
56-0814 - "Divine Love And Sovereign Grace"
Rev. William Marrion Branham
