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Birthdays & Anniversaries • May 18th Sis. Mary Ann Roy • May 19th Danny & Kaitlyn Florian • May 26th Sis. Tina Knoblauch • May 28th Bro. Barry Coffey • May 30th Taylor Coffey

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ROMANS 12:21

CONFIRMATION.AND.EVIDENCE 14 Remember, that we mustn't never come to church to play religious. We mustn't come to just put on a religious act to go to church. We must come to worship in Spirit and in truth. We must be deeply and sincerely... We must really mean what we're coming here for. The days are getting evil. The time is evil. And we want to--we want to make every minute count, and especially when we're in the house of the Lord. 62-0621 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

JEHOVAH.JIREH 7 Bless all the strangers in our gates… And I'm sure, Lord, that they all understand the stand that I take for You, that it must be straight. It's a narrow way, and there's no room on the road, but just for that one person and Jesus alone, so we have to walk that way, Lord. I pray that the audience will catch that vision, and may it never leave their hearts; grant it. 61-0212 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

UNFAILING.REALITIES OF THE LIVING GOD 66 But because He brought it in the way that He did, the people didn't want to receive it in the form that He brought it. That's the same way it is today, exactly the same. They want it, but they don't want to receive it on the level that God brings it. And that's the only way that God has of bringing it. And we cannot bring God down to our level of thinking. We've got to rise ourself to His level of thinking and meet Him on the grounds that He provided for us to meet him on. 60-0626 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

MATTHEW 19:23-26 23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ROMANS 12:21

HEARING.RECOGNIZING.ACTING.ON THE.WORD.OF.GOD 12 In the garden of Eden sin was so beautiful until it attracted Eve from righteousness to sin. And in the same garden where there was a Tree of Life, there was also a tree of death. We would know it today as the law of contrast. That where there is good, there is evil; where there is right, there is wrong. And we will never, no matter what our environment may be, ever be able to shake ourselves from the presence of either. Because, Paul said, "When I would do good, then evil is present." The sinner will never be able to shake away from the Christian, the Christian from the sinner. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

15 (Jacob & Esau) And how that, how it could come from that perfect, pure, elected, holy, consecrated father or mother. So to base it, that God calls by election... It must be. No matter how good your father and mother was, how nice they was, how much Christians your father and mother was, it still lays to you as an individual, your standing before God. 60-0221 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

THE.ENTOMBMENT 77 Where did He leave when He left? The Bible said, "He ascended. He went and preached to the souls that were in prison.. Let's see where He went. Just below the regions of mortal beings lays the realm of demon power; below that lays the souls of the unjust; below it lays the very domain of Satan: hell. Then just above us lays the Holy Spirit; then under the Altar lays the souls of the just men; the next is God Himself. One going downward, one going upward; the two spirits are here on earth, influencing the people of this earth. 57-0420 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

Heaven Souls of Just Men The Holy Spirit & Angels Stream of Humanity Evil Spirts Souls of Unjust Men Hell The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

FAITH 94 …Is His sworn covenant true? Then what we got to be worried about? Jesus is here. His Spirit is here. We're in a... What happened just now? I went into another world. It's an unseen world. We become so conscious of looking at one another like this. But there's a unseen world; and you... It's greater than anything you can see. And here's Christ. In this world, in this building here are evil spirits and war. And Christians anointed, and the Angels of God encamped about them trying to energize them with faith. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

And here I am standing here just yielding myself, and the Holy Spirit's a moving, and this is what you call heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But remember, Satan's always skeptic at the sons of God. You know, he always does that. Someone with a skeptic idea, when they do that, just he's trying to interfere. But Christians always overcome. 56-0815 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

HOW.CAN.I.OVERCOME 76 And Daniel, a man, a prophet. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel was the prophet, and that was the size of the Bride. There's lots of church, about two million of them went down there. That was the size of the overcomer. And them overcomers was put to the test. And every overcomer has to be put to the test. When they said, "You take back what the Word says, or either be throwed in the fiery furnace." They refused anything but the Word. 63-0825 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

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“Galileo before the Holy Office” A19th century painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

Example 1 GENESIS 4:8-10 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. 9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

Example 2 JOHN 9:24-25; 39-41 24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. 25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

Example 3 JOB 2:7-10 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

GOD.TESTIFYING.OF.HIS.GIFTS 24 Now, in a case of healing, here's a cancer, a malignant growth, now it's in there. We pray for you, do all that we can; others pray for you... The doctor, he can cut it out; that's all right. If he can cut it out and get the roots out of him, that's fine. That's his duty to do that. That's what he's trained for. That's what our schools are for, for doctors; that's what our hospitals are for. That‘s what God give us that tree of knowledge for, to do something to help somebody. 52-0713 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

ONLY.BELIEVE 10 …One time they didn't have electricity, but some man believed there was such a thing. And he kept working tireless hours until he discovered what it was. And the same thing by television, by automobile, and so forth. God put all these things here for our benefit. Now… where the man in his senses is limited to his senses. But a man and his spirit is unlimited. The tree of knowledge can only climb so far and it breaks back, but the Tree of Life goes on, forever…Well, we've got untapped resources where all things are possible. 53-0217 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

FAITH.IN.THE.SON.OF.GOD 12 Then stand here and say now, "Somebody in the building has a ulcer in their stomach." Sure, one in this building has got an ulcer in their stomach somewhere. But who is that person? Then let God say who the person is, then that's different. Then tell them what they've done to cause that to come in there. Maybe it's because of unbelief. And then the patient stands and say, "That's the honest truth." That's different then. That's when you're off of this tree of knowledge trying to figure out. You're over here on this Tree then, believing. It's by faith. How? I don't know. Don't ask me; I can't explain it… You just believe it, that's all. 52-0715 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

GIFTS & CALLINGS.ARE.WITHOUT.REPENTANCE 11 Now, the Spirit of Christ is in the Church. It has never left the Church... And the days are growing evil, because that knowledge, man's knowledge, that he received in the garden of Eden... When he left the Tree of Life to eat from the tree of knowledge, that knowledge is increasing constantly. And as knowledge increases, they get away from the Bible and get into a theory. 50-0300 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

GENESIS 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. Imagination: (Heb.) yetser Pottery, graven image, as formed from the dust; Purpose, imagination, device (intellectual framework). The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

ROMANS 9:11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) PROVING.HIS.WORD 212 ”…The antichrist would be so close like the real thing in the last days, it would deceive the very elected, or predestinated..." It's the same thing, election and predestination is the same thing, God elected you or predestinated you before the foundation of the world. 64-0816 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

WITNESSES 19 No matter how much you go to church, your name is engraved on its stained windows… it'll never mean nothing to you, until you are a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ by the infilling of the power of the Holy Spirit. You are taking somebody else's word. "Well, Bro. Branham, I know that Jesus is the Christ, 'cause the Bible said so." The Bible is right, but what do you know about it? It's an individual affair with every individual. It must be a personal witness that every person must have in order to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is when His Spirit bears record with your spirit, in an experience of the new birth, borned again and you cry, "Abba, Father.” And God's got to keep that promise. Yes, sir. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

20 Oh, my. If we had a world like that tonight, the Millennium would be on, wouldn't it? When your spirit bears record with His Spirit that you're sons and daughters of God, then you are witnesses of God. Someone said the other day, said, "Bro. Branham, you believe God by faith. Abraham believed God by faith and that's all that you can do. There is no experience with it.” I said, "Oh, yes, my brother." Said, ”What more can you do than believe God?" I said, "That's all you can do.” Said, "That's what I thought.” I said, "But Abraham believed God. By faith he believed God and God gave him the confirmation of his faith by the sign of circumcision. And we believe God by faith, and God gave us the baptism of the Holy Ghost as a sign of the seal of the promise of our faith.” (Eph. 4:30) The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

That's the seal of the covenant now, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 21 You believe God and say you believe God, and haven't received the Holy Spirit, there's something wrong with your faith. 'Cause God's under obligation to give every believer that repents and is baptized, to give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And He's more willing to give it to you, than you are to receive it.So there's something wrong somewhere. You just got a mental faith and instead of a heart faith. For God's under obligation to keep His Word. 54-0303 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

I PETER 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. III JOHN 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE 65-1125 24-1 Faith is a revelation, because faith has been revealed to you. Abel, by faith… by revelation offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain. Cain thought they eat apples. They still got that idea, but it wasn't. It was adultery: serpent's seed. And there, when the Seven Seals opened, it declared it and proved it. Notice, that's Scripturally from Genesis to Revelations. At the end-time both trees are coming to the seed and proving themselves. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

COD 237 "And while they are yet speaking, I'll answer. Before they can think, I'm thinking for them.” And Jesus will commit a perfect, perfect age to athe perfect living God, that He has redeemed and give over to the Father. Will turn to God the Father which is Spirit, not a man, Spirit. All nature of goodness gathered together, that's God.Now, anything perverted from good is evil; that's Satan's kingdom. All good belongs to God. 64-0823 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

FORMER.AND.LATTER.RAIN 9 Somehow it's strange, when it gets dark, demons possessed creatures begin to move. In a magazine sometime ago, some movie star said that night was made to live in. Night is made to sleep. And if you'll notice, you people here at the desert, it's your serpents, scorpions, snakes and lizards that crawl at nighttime, spiders and evil. Those who prowl at night around is evil. Night is very evil because it's darkness. And thanks be to God that there is a Light that we can see to walk in. And people who walk in darkness are blind, not knowing where they're going. But the children of the Light know because they're walking in the Light. And Jesus is that Light. "I am the Light, the Truth, the Life, the Way.” 60-0303 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

ROMANS 13:3-4 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

FAITH.ONCE.DELIVERED.TO.SAINTS 34 Now, today let's find out why we've got this crop of people that we've got… Now, let's go back over in Genesis, pick up the beginning.We'll find out everything that we got today originated in Genesis. Genesis is the seed chapter of the Bible.Everything began in Genesis: the word means "the beginning." And it's the seed chapter where God sowed the seed of everything. And the evil one sowed his seed, and God sowed His seed, and here the crops are coming up of the earth, just exactly the way God said. 53-1129 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

AN.ENSIGN 53-0606 14 And all sickness is caused by sin. Before we had sin, we had no sickness. But sickness is an attribute of sin. Sickness came because of sin: maybe not what you done; inherited it. Three or four generations it'll follow. God said so. DEMONOLOGY.1.PHYSICAL 53-0608 19 Now, all sickness… came from the devil. God is not the author of sickness. No sickness comes from God. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

LAMB.AND.THE.DOVE 8 Last evening, I made this statement: that we are not supposed to produce fruit but to bear fruit. If we have tried to produce fruit... We bear education and we bear theology; Sometimes we bear things in trying to produce fruit; we produce the wrong thing. Now, to produce anything, could be an outward reform, but to bear anything has to come from the inside of you. Now, the tree is known by its fruit. The life in the tree proves what it is, regardless of what the bark looks like, the limbs look like, shape the tree is grown in. It's the fruit that counts. 57-0325 The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

MATTHEW 12:33-35 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

CHURCH.AGES 98-2 Some have an idea that the two trees in the garden were just two more trees like unto the rest of those that God had placed there. But careful students know that this is not so. When John the Baptist cried that the axe was laid to the root of all trees, he was not talking of simply natural trees, but of spiritual principles. (I John 5:11) Now since the record cannot change, be taken from or added thereunto, then the record stands that The life is in the son... Since this is so, the tree in the garden has to be jesus. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

98-3 All right. If the Tree Of Life is a person, then the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a person also.It can't be otherwise. Thus the Righteous One and the Wicked One stood side by side there in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Ezekiel 28:13a "Thou (Satan) hast been in Eden, the garden of God." The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

REVELATION 22:18-19 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

II TIMOTHY 4:2-4 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

Sound: (Gr.) hugiaino To be sound, to be well, to be in good health; metaph. used of Christians whose opinions are free from any admixture of error, of one who keeps the graces and is strong. LUKE 5:30-32 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

63-0324 THE.SEVENTH.SEAL 352 When I was a little boy... I always wanted somebody to love me and talk to me. Nobody would do it because of the name of the family… But when I made my surrender to God, then our people being Irish, (all Catholic)... maybe that would be it… I went down to the First Baptist church, and he was another way. I said, "Lord, there's got to be some way that's true.“ And something said, "It's the Word." I've held that Word. Look at every vision... The day I laid that cornerstone yonder, and I put that in there; I wrote on there what He showed me that morning in a vision: "Be instant in season, out of season, rebuke with all long-suffering and doctrine, for the time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall heap for themselves together teachers having itching ears and be turned away from the truth into fables." The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

REVELATION 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. The Tree of the Knowlege of Good & Evil

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