Zoe

By: Brother William Marrion Branham.

Query: Zoe, Cell

HEALING OF JAIRUS DAUGHTER. 55-0227E

E-12 012 Our heavenly Father, as we come upon the grounds of
the shed Blood of Jesus, O God, give us the vision tonight of
seeing what that was when Emmanuel's veins were plucked and
drew out the blood cell of the dying Lamb of God. Through there,
through sin, breaking the Blood cell, freeing the Life inside, that
now the worshipper coming to God, comes through the shed Blood
of the innocent Lamb of God, entering into Zoe, the Life of God
Himself, becoming then a son and daughter of God, upon the
basis of the shed Blood. Then we go forward to carry on the work
of reconciliation that Christ died for at Calvary, teaching sinners
that they can be reconciled to God through the shedding of His
Blood. And that in His stripes was included in this marvelous
atonement, that the Holy Ghost Himself, is here out of the Blood
cell to witness it to be Truth, that "By His stripes we are healed."
Oh, how we thank Thee, Father.

Now, Thou did see the hands of these people. You know
everything they have need of, and the very desire of their heart. I
pray, Father God, that You'll give to every one here, especially this
blessing tonight: Everlasting Life. Heal all the sick and the afflicted,
call back the backsliders. Get glory unto Thy own self, as we
present ourselves as empty vessels, that the Holy Spirit would fill
now for the service of God.

This we present to You. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, the Son of
God. Amen.

GODHEAD EXPLAINED. 61-0425B

17-3 046 Now, some people have said, "Brother Branham, you are
a 'Jesus Only.'"

I want to say that that is in error. I am not a "Jesus Only."

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Somebody says, "Brother Branham, are you a trinitarian?"

No, sir. I am not a trinitarian; I'm a Christian. See? Now, I--I don't...
The word "trinitarian" don't even mention in the Bible--the word
"trinity." And I do not believe that there is three individual gods. I
believe there is one God in three offices: Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
That's exactly why we were commissioned to baptize in the Name
of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. I believe that it's God condescending,
coming down.

17-4 047 Now, God, when He first appeared to men, He was in a

form of a Pillar of Fire. You believe that, don't you? The... Any Bible
reader that knows that the Pillar of Fire that was in the wilderness
was the Logos, that--that was the Angel of the Covenant, which
was Christ, because He said He was... It wasn't... I believe it was
St. John 6 there, He said, "Before Abraham was, I Am." He was
the I AM. So that was God holy. Even if a man touched the
mountain, he must be killed. See? All right.

18-1 048 Now, that same God was trying to work Himself back into
His creature, that He created. Now, He could not come near them
because they were sinful, and the blood of goats and sheep never
did take away sin; we know that. It just covered sin. Now, but then
that same God that was the Pillar of Fire, He became flesh through
His Son, and dwelt in a body called the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Bible said, "In Him dwells the Fullness of the Godhead bodily." And
Jesus said in... Well, I Timothy 3:16 "Without controversy, great is
the mystery of godliness," and if they could call it great, why, what
would we do. See? "Great is the mystery of godliness, for God was
manifested in the flesh, and seen of angels, and received up into
glory," and so forth.

18-2 049 Now, and He said in St. John 14 to Thomas, "When you
have seen Me, you have seen the Father. And why sayest thou,
'Show us the Father?'" The Bible said that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world to Himself.

Now, God cannot be three people, three gods, neither can Jesus
be His Own Father in one. See? So, you see, it makes both
radically wrong.
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And now, if you'll just notice, there is no place... If we've got three
gods, we're heathens. Now, we know that. Like the Jew said to me
one time when I was talking to him, said, "Which one of them is
your god? Which one is your god: the Father, the Son, or the Holy
Ghost? Which one is yours?"

And I said, "Why, there's no three gods."

He said, "You can't chop--chop God in three pieces and give Him
to a Jew."

I said, "No, sir."

I said... When John Rhyn had been healed of blindness there at Ft.
Wayne, you know, and this rabbi up here at Mishawaka--or to
Benton Harbor, he said, "You can't chop God in no three pieces
and give Him to a Jew."

I said, "Certainly not." I told him, I said, "Rabbi, would it be hard for
you to believe the prophets?"

He said, "No."

19-1 050 I said, "In Isaiah 9:6, Who is he talking about? 'To us a
Child is born, a Son is given, be called Counseller, Mighty God,
Prince of Peace?'"
He said, "That was the Messiah."

I said, "Then, Rabbi, what relation will Messiah be to God?"

He said, "He will be God."

That's what I thought. See? I said, "See, that's exactly right. That's
what He is." And so I said, "Tell me now where Jesus failed to fulfill
exactly what the prophet said He would do"; and he started to cry
and walked out. I said, "By that, John Ryan has his sight."

And he said, "Far be it from God having a son."

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I said, "The great Jehovah overshadowed a woman, as the
prophet said He would, and He created a Blood cell, and through
that blood cell is where come forth the body of Christ."

19-4 051 "Look in the Old Testament, Rabbi," I said. "When a man
went to make an offering, he took a lamb. He knew he had broken
the commandments of God, so he took a lamb. He confessed his
sins, and this lamb was killed. While the--his hands being on the
lamb, his confession that he knew that he should die for his sins,
but the lamb was taking his place; and the blood cell was broke,
and he held the little lamb by his hand until he felt its little life go
out of it and stiffen out, and then the priest, of course, threw the
blood on the--on the fire, the brazen altar of judgment. Then," I
said, "that man, then he went out of there knowing that the lamb
had took his place, but he went out with the same desire he had
when he come in (See?), because it could not take away sin.
(See?) But, then in this case, the worshipper once purged, has no
more conscience of sin. There, they was an offering made yearly,"
but I said, "now there is this time the worshipper once purged has
no more conscience of sin; because look, Rabbi, in the
hemoglobin, that little life that begins in the cell, which it comes
from the male sex into the female, and she produces the egg. But
a hen can lay an egg, but if it hasn't been with the male bird, it'll
never hatch."

19-6 052 And I said, "Then God, the greatest that filled all time and
space, became down to one little germ to the womb of a woman."
And then I said, "When we are saved today... Jesus was neither
Jew nor Gentile, because the egg only produced the flesh. The
Blood had the life, so we are... The Bible said we are saved by the
Blood of God. See? He was neither Jew nor Gentile; He was God;
therefore, when we come to the altar, and put our hands by faith
upon His head, and feel the tearing and agony at Calvary, and
confess our sins, that we are wrong, and He died in our place, then
(You see?)," I said, "the blood of that lamb could not come back
upon this... The blood that the cell was broken, and the life that
was let loose and breaking this blood cell of the lamb, could not
come back upon the worshipper, because it was a animal life, and
it would not coincide with the human life."
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20-1 053 "But this time, when that blood cell was broken, it wasn't
merely a man; that was God's Life was released. And when the
worshipper lays his hands by faith upon the Son of God and
confesses his sins, not the life of another man, but the Life of God
comes back into this man, which is Eternal Life. The word "Zoe,"
which is translated "God's Own Life," and He said He'd give us
Zoe, Eternal Life. And now we are sons and daughters of God.
There you are."

I said, "Now, what is it? It's God condescending." He came first. No

man could touch Him, because man had sinned. Then He was
come down in a body in order to taste sin, to take sin. See, He...
The only thing God could do to be just was do it that way.

ZACCHAEUS THE BUSINESS MAN. 63-0121

E-62 062 As I said, in the Old Testament when the blood cell was
broken from the lamb, it could not come back upon the worshipper.
Therefore, he went out with the same desire to sin. But in this
case, when by faith we lay our hands upon the Blood cell that was
broke at Calvary, not Jewish, neither was it the blood cell of a
Gentile; it was the blood of God. And when that Life that come out
of there, brings back the life of God to us, which is Eternal Life.
The Greek word there is used, "Zoe" which means "God's own
Life." And the very life that was in Christ, which was God.

The body was a man, of course. But God the Creator Who made
the first man... Where did he come from, if He didn't make him?
God, the Creator, without the help of anything, created Adam. God,
the Creator made the Man Christ Jesus, His Son, in the womb of
Mary. And He was Emmanuel. And when sin... Not because He
had to die, He laid it down. But because sin struck the spear that
broke His heart, then something taken place. Life come back upon
the worshipper. And what is it? Then we have no more conscience
of sin, says the writer of Hebrew. The sin desire is gone. Then,
now we are free.

Query: Zoe, Soul

GREAT COMMISSION. 57-0804A

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E-24 024 Now, Divine healing and salvation for the soul is not on
the same basis. Jesus died that He might save us. When we're
saved, we're saved eternally. But when we're healed, physically,
we'll get sick again. But the soul is the immortal part, and Jesus
said, "He that heareth My words, believeth on Him that sent Me,
hath (that's present tense), Everlasting Life and it shall never come
to the judgment, but is passed from death unto life." That settles it.

Then when we are born again, we're a new creature. And that soul
is a part of God. The Eternal Life there comes from the Greek
word, "Zoe," which means "God's own Life." That makes us sons
and daughters of God. We can no more perish than God can
perish, 'cause you're a part of Him.

JESUS CHRIST THE SAME. 58-0312

E-61 061 Now, some of you ministers might not believe in Divine
healing. But how could you preach salvation to the soul without
Divine healing? What is sickness? Scripture says it's an attribute of
sin. What is sin? Smoking, drinking? No. Committing adultery? No.
Well, what's that? That's attribute of unbelief.

What is sin? There's only one sin. That's unbelief. "He that
believeth not is condemned already." How many knows that? Only
two, faith and unbelief. You're on one side. If you are a believer,
you don't smoke, drink, and commit adultery. But because you
don't, just don't make you a believer. See? No, sir. It's just an
attribute.

Well, what is sickness? Sickness is an attribute of sin. Before we

had any sin, we had no sickness. Sickness came in because of
sin. How many knows that? Well, sure.

E-62 062 Well, then look. If a great big animal had you and his
paw in your side pulling the ribs out, now, it wouldn't be necessary
for you to cut that paw off, if he wasn't--he wasn't biting you. You
wouldn't just cut his paw off. Just knock him in the head. That'd kill
the whole thing. Isn't that right?

Well, that's the way sickness is. When you kill sin, you kill sickness
with it. You can't preach salvation without taking everything that
ever happened to the human race. He was our Redeemer to
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redeem us. Yes, sir. Even this old body, when it dies like our soul
dies, and our spirit is born again, we're new creatures, got Eternal
Life forever, forever. We never die with Eternal Life. You can't. It's
Eternal, "Zoe," God's own Life: can't die.

CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED. 62-0118

E-51 051 But when you see... The world sees the church just... We
Pentecostal people profess something; the world says they haven't
got it. See? You say, "They haven't got it. They're no different from
the rest of them." Well, that's just exactly right. They are right, just
exactly.

You know, we're always trying to cope with the world. We're trying
to outshine them. As I said the other night, you're--you're--you're
trying to meet them on their grounds. Let them come over on our
grounds. See? We don't want to try to get what they got. We got
something that they can't have unless they become one of us.
That's right. Be a vessel of the Lord. Have Christ.

Christ said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men to Me." But see, when
the church doesn't do that... They lifted up... You ought to lift Him
up, as the song said, by living as Christians ought to do. See? But
instead of that, we start right off... The very things we do and
things, proves that we haven't got it. See? So you're--you're just
presuming that, as I said the other night. Don't you do that. Come
back. Don't take a substitute, 'cause you're going to die.

E-52 052 And remember, when you die and that soul leaves you, it
never changes. No, sir. Death doesn't change the soul. It changes
its dwelling place, but it's still the same soul. So if it isn't born
again, and a part of the eternal Spirit of God, it had a beginning.
Anything with a beginning has an end. That's the reason God's the
only thing's eternal.

Unless you're born again and have eternal life (the Greek word
"Zoe" there means "God's own life" in you) you'll perish. But where
God's life is in you, you can no more perish than God can perish
(That's right.) because you are a son, an offspring of God, and
have Eternal Life. Oh, that's the thing the church needs. Then
when God is in you, then He lives His own Life through you. See?
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And that's how we--we know that we're Christians. Then you're
concerned about your brother.
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Query: Zoe, Son

THOU KNOWEST ALL THINGS. 52-0716

E-28 028 Now, we know drinking and carrying on is sin; but the
whole thing is because of unbelief. 'Cause if you believe God, and
Jesus Christ to be His Son, you are absolutely not going to do
those things. You believe that? "He that's born of God does not
commit sin." See? All right.

You must believe. The whole thing lays in faith. Jesus said, "He
that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has
Everlasting Life, shall not come into condemnation, but is already
passed from death into Life." Do you believe that's the truth? There
it lays. There isn't nothing else that you can do, only believe. And if
you believe, then them little immoral things will just drop off, like
that. As you believe, you become love. And love is God. And you
begin to wind yourself into Christ. And these other things, you don't
have to quit doing them; they just quit themselves. There's just no
desire to do it. "The worshipper having purged, has no more
conscience, or desire of sin." Hebrews 9. See? "The worshipper
once purged..." See what I mean? When the worshipper is purged,
is when he is born again, when his old nature dies, and a new
nature sets in. Then he becomes a part of God, a son of God. He
gets new Life, and the Life is... And the Greek word there is "Zoe,"
which means "the Life of God." And you become an offspring of
God. And God can't hurt you without hurting Himself. See what I
mean?

EXPECTATIONS AND WHAT LOVE IS. 54-0228A

E-40 040 How could I get the water out of that desk, when there's
no water in it? You see. See, you've got to be born-again and then
God comes in. And God made the world out of things which was
not. He just spoke and said, "Let there be," and His Word become
material and materialized. And this very ground that you're setting
over this afternoon, is the Word of God made manifest. That's
right.

Well now, a man that's got part of that... Now, Jesus said, "I give
them Eternal Life." "Eternal," that word come from the word "Zoe,"
the Greek word which means "the Life of God."
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Well then, if we have the Life of God in us, the born-again, then we
have God's Life in us, which makes us believe like God does, that
whatever the Word says, it'll materialize. See? If it says, "By His
stripes we're healed," that settles it. God said so. And that's when
a man is born of the Spirit of God, he's a son of God, then he
believes for things that's impossible. He still believes it. Because
why? His God is in him by the Holy Spirit and he believes. See?

E-41 041 Now, if he hasn't got the Holy Spirit in there, he's got
nothing but just his nor... his--his mind to rest on it, so he just can't
comprehend the things of God. He doesn't know them. The natural
mind can't understand the things of God; they're foolish to him.

Now, the Pentecostal or Full Gospel, you are... The one thing that I
find that's one of the greatest hindrance among us, is that you're
trying to place the great things of God, yet to come, when you're
right in the middle of it now. That's right.

Now, you say, "Just wait till some..." Well, that could be the
millennium where we won't need any healings and things. That's
the next age to be issued in. Now we're in the Holy Ghost age.
Now you are the sons of God. Now we're seated together in
heavenly places, not we will be, we are now, this afternoon, right
here now, sons and daughters of God seated together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. There we are. See? All things are possible
then.

EVERLASTING LIFE. 54-1231

84 019 Now, Jesus said, Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth My
Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life."
Now, if Everlasting Life... what does the word "Everlasting" mean?
That means, "Without end." If he--if he... "He that heareth My
Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Life without end."
Why all the coming back and--and trying to get saved over, and all
these things then? If you got life without end, you can't perish. Your
life can't, because you got Everlasting Life.

Now, if some of you might want to look the word up, you'll find in
there, the Greek word, has "Zoe, Z-o-e," the Greek word, which
means "The life of God." Because if it's everlasting, there's only
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one thing that is everlasting, and that is God. He is, "From

everlasting unto everlasting, Thou art God."

Now, if He's from everlasting and to everlasting, and has give you
everlasting unto Everlasting Life, then you'll have to become a part
of His everlasting Being. Is that right? And if you become a part of
His everlasting Being, that makes you a son or a daughter to Him;
which exactly fulfill what the Scripture says, "We're sons and
daughters of God." Is that right?

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH. 55-0220E

E-66 066 Jesus said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the Kingdom." You can't understand it. It's a mystic, mythical thing
until you're born again. There the very Life of God comes in you.
Everlasting, Eternal Life, Zoe, God's own Life comes in you, and
then you're a part of God. You're a Son of God or a daughter of
God. And then you see as God sees. You believe as God believes.
Then you'll be a new creature in Christ Jesus. The Lord bless you
now.

I believe now we'll pray for the sick. I want to ask you something,
friends. God could do more in one minute to convince people, than
I could all night preaching.

I'm going to ask you if you will... Now, parents get your children
near you, and please doesn’t anyone walk around during this part
of the service.

Now, if you're an unbeliever, don't stay. Now, if you are a believer...

And now remember, for spirits of unbelief I am not responsible, so
you'll know.

Now, everyone get you a place, and be seated, and then just pray,
and ask God to help you, and God will bless you, I'm sure. Don't
move around. I'll explain it later; I haven't time tonight. This is just
one night. We can't get everything in one night. So I'll just ask you
now to be reverent and just be--and be seated if you will. Do this
for the Kingdom of God's sake.
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HEBREWS CHAPTER 6 AND 7. 57-0915M
259-561 033 We went through the word "eternal." "Forever" is "a
space of time." Eternity is forever, forever, and forever, but there's
only one eternity. And we find out that you receive Eternal Life. And
the word in the Greek is "Zoe" which means "God's Life." And you
receive part of God's Life, which makes you a spiritual son of God,
and you're just as everlasting as God is everlasting. You have no
end, no place to stop, because you had no place to begin.
Anything has a beginning has an end, and that without a beginning
has no end.

THEN JESUS CAME. 57-1213

E-37 037 When He was here on earth, He didn't claim to be a
healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father
that dwelleth in Me." The same Father that was in Him, is in you. "I
will give unto them Eternal Life." And anyone knows that that word
"Eternal" come from the Greek word "Zoe," and Zoe is part of
God's Own Life that's in you.

Everything that has a beginning has an end. Your mortal life had a
beginning; it has an end. The earth had a beginning; it has an end.
But it's the things that had no beginning, has no end. And there's
only one thing that had no beginning or end, and that's God. And
you become a son and a daughter of Him, a partaker of His
Majesty, has Eternal Life, and can no more perish than God can
perish.

HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. 58-0108

4 003 Now, our subject tonight begins in Babylon. And Babylon
was first located, which it is yet, in the Shinar. And it was first
called, "the gate of God," Babel, Babel, and later was called
Babylon, which means "confusion." And Babylon appears in the
first of the Bible in Genesis; and it appears in the middle of the
Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible, the last Book,
Revelation. And being that it's all through the Bible, it must be in
existence yet today.

5 004 And also everything that is on the earth today, in the way of
spiritual things, such as the Spirit of God and the spirit of the Devil,
and all the cults and everything that we have today in the world,
they began in Genesis. "Genesis" means "the beginning." And all
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those things, yet under another name and under another form, but
the same spirit that began in Genesis, brings it out. And it's just like
a tree growing, coming up to a head, where it'll all come to a
climax in the end, for the great judgments of God, where He will
settle all things. And all that had a beginning will have an end. Just
those things which had not a beginning has no end.

6 005 That's why the--the born again Christian has never an end,
because he has Eternal Life. And Eternal Life is a part of God's
Own Life, for God is eternal. And the same word, Greek word
"Zoe" that says "God's Life," when Jesus speaks and said, "I give
unto them Eternal Life," that same word is used again. Therefore,
a man being born again, his spirit has been changed, and he
becomes a part of God; insomuch that he is a son of God. And
he's just as eternal as God is eternal, because he's a part of God,
by his birth, spiritual birth.

ESCAPE HITHER COME QUICKLY. 58-0202

E-54 054 Now, if your life tallies up to the life of Jesus Christ, that
is, He said in His Word there: "If you say to this mountain, Be
moved, and don't doubt, but believe that it's coming to pass; you
can have what you say," what you say. The only way you could
move that mountain would have to be Deity speaking. When you're
a son of God you receive God, which is Zoe, God's own life, and
you, become a part of God. Then if your objective is right and your
motive is right...

BALM IN GILEAD. 61-0218

E-57 057 You know, as I said, when doctors wants to try their
toxine, they squirt it into a guinea pig and see how he acts. But you
know, when God brought His Toxine down, He didn't put it in a
guinea pig, He put it in His Son, Himself. He made Himself a body;
you believe that? He overshadowed the virgin Mary and created
Himself a body, changed His cast from God Jehovah to a Man
here on earth to express Himself to a body. And He didn't give it to
a guinea pig. And I want to straighten some of this here social
doctrine out that they call that He was just a prophet. He never
give it to a prophet. He give it to Himself. Any good doctor will try
his own medicine out, see if it works.
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Jesus give it to Himself. He was baptized on the Jordan with the
Holy Ghost. John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God like a dove
descending upon Him, a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son, in
Who I am pleased to dwell in." They watched it. When He was
tempted, the toxine held. When He was smite in the face, it held.
When He was riled upon, He spoke not back. When they put a rag
around His head and hit Him on the head with a stick and said, "If
you're a prophet, now tell us who hit you," the toxine held. When
they pulled beard out of His face and spit in His face, and drunken
soldiers, hawked and spit in His face and pulled handfuls of beard,
it held. On Calvary it held. Hallelujah. In the hour of death it held.
When He died it held. When His soul ascended into hell, it held.

E-58 058 But on Easter morning it proved it was God. The toxine
He gives is Eternal Life. How can you keep it in hell? How can you
keep it anywhere else? The gates of hell, death, and the grave
couldn't hold it. He rose up again on the third day, proved that the
toxine was real. Amen. He rose. Oh, when they seen Him rise up...
The prophets died and was buried, but Jesus rose again. God's
toxine had came down like a dove from above, lit upon His own
Son, and He lived a life peaceful, went about, not being a
showman, a big stiff shirt somewhere, stepped out, "See what I
can do?" He hid Himself, and restrained, and come back from the
people and so forth. Was called everything that could be called,
And He ministered right on to the humble, the sick, the prostitutes,
and everything that there was; it held. Every temptation it held. And
in death it held. In life it held. In death it held. And it proved in
resurrection that it was Eternal Life. That's God's own Life. The
word "eternal" comes from the Greek word of "Zoe," which means
"God's own life is in Him." And when you receive the Holy Ghost
It's Eternal Life, and God's own life is in you. You can no more die
than God can.

He separated Himself. When He come down on the day of

Pentecost and separated Himself, tongues of fire, that Pillar of
Fire, scattered out all through the church and set upon each of
them: God dividing Himself among His church. Glory. "At that day
you'll know that I'm in the Father, and the Father in me, and I in
you." Amen. That's Pentecost. That's the real blessing. The toxine
held, yes.
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HAVE NOT I SENT THEE. 62-0124

E-6 006 Eternity never begins, never ends (See?), never had a
beginning, never has an ending. You can't explain it. But anything
that had a beginning has an end. So you say, "What about us,
Brother Branham?" Well, as long as you're natural human of the
earth here, you had a beginning. But if you're born of heaven,
you're part of God. Then that Spirit never had a beginning,
because It's part of God. It's eternal. That's the only way you can
ever live forever, is to have Eternal Life (That's right.), an Eternal
Life. But anything that begins has an end.

So if you had no beginning, the only... See, there Jesus said,

"Except a man be born again of the Spirit, he cannot enter the
Kingdom, nowise can enter in," 'cause you've got to have that
Eternal Life.

E-7 007 Now, 'course I'm not... I hardly know how to speak English
and know... I've studied a word or two when I'd find it, to see what
it was in the Bible, Hebrew and Greek. But the Greek word there
for Eternal Life is the same word that's used for God's Life. It's
spelled Z-o-e, Zoe. And he that has Eternal Life is Zoe, God's own
Life. That makes you His own son or daughter (See?), 'cause
you're born of Him. His Life is in you. And you can no more perish
than God can perish. So you got Eternal Life and, "I'll raise him up
at the last day," God said. Isn't that wonderful?

E-8 008 I was thinking, when God in the beginning He spoke and
He said, "Let there be, and let there be," and brought forth the
seeds, everything of its kind. You can hybreed it, of course, and
turn it around, as I preached here in Phoenix one time on, I
believe, "Hybrid Religion"; how that they try to interbreed it with
denominations, instead of letting it be like it was. But you let a--you
let a hybrid... Anything that's hybrid cannot breed itself back.

E-9 009 So when man tells you, and you children going to school,
and they say that we come from a single cell, and the ethics of
Darwin... He--he just doesn't know what he's talking about (See?),
because... You take a horse and a--and a... You take a... Well, let's
say a donkey and a mare, and they have a--a colt. It's a--it's a
mule. But that mule cannot breed to another mule and have a
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mule. It finishes right there. Hybrid corn, you could hybreed corn,
and then you could plant that corn. It won't be nothing (See?),
won't be nothing; has to come back.

So how can then... If we begin on evolution from single cell, then

where we at. See? Their own scientific research proves they're
wrong. See? See, you can't do it. You can breed the blue violet
with a white violet, get the African violet. But just leave them to
theirselves, and they'll go right straight back to the original blue
violet. That's right. See? It won't do it.

E-10 010 So when God spoke and made man, and man's soul was
lost, it absolutely... Anything outside of that: joining church and
anything is hybreeding. You've got to come back to... God's got to
speak the Word back again. That makes it Life Eternal. When God
speaks Life into you, then that's eternal again. But until that it's a
hybrid condition. You see? So the devil mingled with it and mixed--
tried to mix faith and something, unbelief together, so it makes a
hybrid (See?), and... But when God speaks and places the Holy
Spirit in there and seals it, it's eternal.

E-11 011 Ephesians 4:30 says: "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God
(not the holy church of God; the Holy Spirit of God) whereby you
are sealed until the day of your redemption." And a seal represents
a finished work. Nothing is sealed... Like you load a boxcar.

You start loading a boxcar (I used to work on the railroad), and we

would load in a boxcar different things. But the inspector comes
around first. It's got to go over a lot of rough roads. If there's
anything loose, he will not seal it, until that car is so loaded and
compact till nothing can shake it. Then he closes the door and
seals it, and it cannot be broken till it's at its destination. That's just
right.

God comes around and finds a lot of foolishness in us, He just

don't seal it yet. Sees a lot of unbelief, He just don't seal it yet. But
when it's all packed up with the full Gospel, then He seals it (That's
right.)--seals it till its destination. Isn't He wonderful?
Zoe 17

INVESTMENTS. 62-1124B
E-66 066 Now, we realize that everything that has a beginning has
an end. And there's only one thing that never had a beginning, and
that was God. And when the Bible speaks there (I don't think I'm
misquoting it, before a Greek scholar, and a Greek man.), the word
"Zoe" means "God's own Life." Then if we have Eternal Life, the
Greek word "Zoe" means that we have part of God's own Life,
because we become a part of Him. We are a son and daughter of
His. Then we have Eternal Life, and that doesn't die. You have
Eternal Life.

There's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. God is
eternal. He never did begin, He never can end. And the only way
we can be eternal with Him is to come part of Him. The only way I
become a Branham was because I become part of a Branham.
Only way I become the human race is be one of them. And the
only way that I can be a son of God is become part of God. Then I
have to be born of His Spirit. Amen. That's it. Sell all your
denominational creeds and invest in Eternal Life.

QA ON THE SEALS. 63-0324M

487-1 {191} 090 14b... if not, is the lake of fire and hell eternal?

No, sir. No, sir. Anything that was created is not eternal. No,
anything that's created... That's the reason there cannot be an
eternal hell. If anybody ever tells you that you're going to burn in
an eternal hell, I want the Scripture for it. See? There's no such a
thing as that.

Hell was created for the devil and his angels, for the antichrist and
his people; that was the devil, the incarnate devil. It was created
for that to destroy. And anything that had... Anything... There's only
one thing at all out of everything there is, the whole world and
everything else; there's only one thing eternal, and that's God.

487-3 {194} 091 Before there was an atom, or electrons, or before

there was even cosmic light, electrons, or anything, He was God.
He's the Creator. And that's the only way you can be eternal, is to
receive Eternal Life; that Greek word there, I think, is Zoe. Isn't that
right? Zoe, Zoe. And then that--that Life God imparts to you, as the
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father, your father imparts his life to you through the--the marriage
vow with mother--and he, by that, imparts the--the joy of imparting
(Catch me?), of the imparting life for a son.

And that's the way God does: a joy in imparting His Life to a son.
See? And then you become part of Him which is Zoe, God's Own
Life. "I give unto them Eternal Life--raise them up at the last day."
That's the only thing that--that... He got Eternal Life; and that
Eternal Life knows its body, and it must have to come forth. That...
It can't... It's impossible for it to lay there.

487-5 {196} 092 As the Spirit of Christ hovered over the body
(God's Spirit over Christ at that great day), It knew it would raise
up again, so is the saints in their body.

Now remember, Jesus, when He died, He went to hell, 'cause He

had to go there; there was a sin barrier, and He preached to the
souls that were in hell that repented not in the long-suffering in the
days of Noah. Is that right? He went to hell and preached to the
souls, the separated souls from God. "Death" means "separation."
And they had separated from God, never could be back no more.
And Jesus went to bear record that He was the One that was
spoke of, the--the woman's seed.

The serpent's seed... See what the serpent's seed done? Antichrist
winds up in death, separation, the red horse. The woman's seed,
Life, ends up on the white horse: Jesus Christ. See? What is it?
One against the other: serpent's seed against the woman's seed.
You get it now?

Oh, we could stay a little while on that. Wouldn't that be good? But
let's stay with this.

IDENTIFICATION. 64-0216
73 032 Now, we find out that in the great turmoil of the day, the
people, about understanding God, God in three persons. God, it's
three attributes of God, like three offices: God above us in the Holy
Spirit up there in a Pillar of Fire; God made flesh and dwelled
among us, a Man that we could touch and handle; now God's in
the church: God above you, God with you, God in you (See?), the
Zoe 19

same God in three different manifestations, but the same God all
the time.

74 033 Notice, to be no mistake, His sinless nature expressed

God's Word. And the only way that you'll ever be able to express
God's Word, that you believe It, and watch It act behind you, you'll
have to have that sinless nature that come from God. Before the
foundation of the world you were recognized with Him. Before the
Word can ever express itself through you, it takes a sinless nature
to do that.

So much till He was the Word in full. The Word of God flowed
through Him so freely, that even He could speak a word, it would
create. See? That showed Who He was. Who can create but God?
See? God's the only Creator there is. And He was so perfect in
harmony, Him and the Word was so perfectly together, until He
created. Even He had--He and the Word being one...

76 034 No other nature could do this. No other nature could, no

character, nothing in the heavens, nothing else could do that, but
Him. For He was the beginning of that character, Saviour. The
Angel wasn't born a Saviour. He was created a Being to worship
God, not a Saviour. But in God was a Saviour. An ordinary man
born of an ordinary woman couldn't be a Saviour, 'cause his
nature's carnal. But it taken God Himself. Amen. I--I hope you see
it. Look. That was the expression to manifest such a character as
that.

For others, it was a fallen character; nothing could save. Angels

wasn't created for such. Man was a fallen character. Look, how
could this man...

77 035 Look, to show it's the ones that He thought of, His thoughts
is the Christian of today, the thoughts before the foundation of the
world. Now, remember, man, when he was born in sin, shaped in
iniquity, comes to the world speaking lies. Is that right? There's
nothing in him at all. So you see, if he was in God's thoughts when
he comes to the world, he's come in God's thoughts at the
beginning to display His attribute. You follow me? Then Jesus
came to break the clouds back so that attribute could display itself.
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He is God's expressed Word. Now, nothing else could be
manifested. Other characters had all fallen. Then you see, what
did Jesus come to bring back those characters? No. No, they were
born in sin, shaped in iniquity.

He came as a Redeemer. And to "redeem" anything, is "to bring it

back (Amen.), bring it back." It was God's thoughts. You... Think,
little you, little me, no one in the world could take my place.
Nobody can take yours. You, being a Christian and filled with the
Spirit, God, in before the foundation of the world, seen you, and
knew every feature that you got. See? And Jesus comes to bring
you back. That's what Jesus was here for, the Redeemer, the
human body: to bring you back. That had to come to be a human
as a Redeemer to display His attributes as Saviour, come to
redeem you and bring you back from where you come from. You
were...

79 036 When you receive Eternal Life, there's only one form of
Eternal Life, that's the Greek word "Zoe (Is that right, brother?),
Zoe," God's own Life. So you being a son, you become part of that
Life. So the Life that's in you never did begin, and it never can end.
Think of it. It can't end, because that anything that's eternal never
began. The Life that's in you never did begin, that--that is, if you've
got Eternal Life, and that's God; for you was in His thoughts on the
eternal. And now it's expressed here in a human being for His
glory. Jesus came to redeem that, being the Son. The fullness of
God had to come and become that. The sinless character of God
did that, that He might redeem these other thoughts that's to come
to Him to make a wife. See what I mean? Oh, it's a glorious story.
We aren’t--oughtn't to get on that anyhow. Let's go on. All right.

80 037 Notice, created. God--God flowed through Him just like

the--the wind would flow through a building, or like the water flow
down a stream, even He had--Him and the Word being One. No
other character could do it, for He was the only One that was born
without carnal. All the rest of them were sexual desires, carnal. He
was born without sex desire. He was a virgin born.

God identified Himself as we are. He took--He took His strain, what

He was, His strain is God, and stretched His tent down here and
become human. He made Himself a tent, a body to live in, and that
Zoe 21

body is known as Jesus. God lived in Christ. See? He become

human in order to save us. And He took our--upon Him our form,
that He might mold in us His Character.

And His Character was that He did everything that pleased God,
and He stayed with the Word. That's what He mold us for; we stay
with God's Word, find our place, and then knew where we were at.
Stay with His Word.

83 038 And think of it. We are invited to shape our own character
to His. Now, we're going to find out what we've done. Shape our
character to His own by His own Spirit... Then we, by Him, are
sons of God (just what I've expressed,) by having His mind in us to
shape our character to His. His mind, let the mind that was in
Christ be in you. If that mind is in you, then... You see?..

He only did that which pleased God. He knew Who He was. He

came the Son of God. He knew He was to take that place. His
character had to be that way. And then, when He... Having taken
His place, He knew what the Messiah was required of. And He
always sought at God to do those things, and did nothing until the
Father showed Him.

84 039 Now, if you find your place, sister, don't let me hurt you,
brother, but you'll find your place in the Word as a Christian. Not
what the creed said, that's down here in this lower cannon fodder
that's going to be destroyed. See? You find your place as a
Christian, because your character is molded as Christ. You're Zoe,
the same as He was Zoe. Then if the Bible said for a woman not to
cut her hair, how can you do it? It says a man's the ruler of the
house. How can you women be? What's the matter with you men
as sons of God? See? See, you don't find your place. See?

Watch now. In... You're invited to come and take His character. By
having His character in you, it molds you into the same mind that
He was. And His mind was always to do what the Father had
ordained Him to do.
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He said, "Search the Scripture. They testify of Me." In other words,
"If I don't do exactly what the Scripture said I'm to do, then show
Me where."
Query: Zoe, Sons

DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST THE. 49-1225

79 037 The Deity of Him, Who is He? Some of them thinks Him a
little baby back there. He's the One that stood on the invisible (oh,
my) platform, raked out His hands, and spoke, and said, "Let there
be light," and there was light. That was Jesus Christ. "For He was
in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world
recognized Him not." He was, and He's the Deity of God. Look
what He did back there. Talk about the miraculous back there, you
talk about shouting? When He performed the miraculous things, to
make things which are now, out of things which was not, He spoke
and it was so.

80 038 And that same power, that same Christ... Hallelujah. Let the
fundamentalists, let them people who deny the power of God say
it's wrong; but that same power that spoke the world into existence
is in those people that's got the Holy Ghost. That's right. Men and
women, it's time that we found out who you are. The devil's trying
to hide you back, tell you that you're some little trod-down
something. You're not. You're sons and daughters of God. The
Deity is not in heaven; it's in you. Hallelujah.

I know you think I'm crazy, but let me tell you something, brother.
When you realize that Almighty God lives in you, it's all right. "My
Life, I give Zoe," the Life of God is in the human being.

81 039 He stood back there; He's the Creator of all things. He

made life, frogs, and all these ducks, chickens, animals, created
everything. "And nothing was made but what was made by Him."
Who? Christ, the Deity. "He brought down plagues in the--in the
days of Egypt." Who? Christ. "He stopped the--the mouths of lions.
He quenched the violence of fire. They escaped the edge of the
sword. They raised the dead from the grave." Who? Christ. Oh,
my, what would it be? Who is it? Christ, the Deity.

82 040 And, brother, sister, that Deity's in you. "A little while and
the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with
Zoe 23

you, even in you, to the end of the age." Christ in the manger? No.
Christ in you. Hallelujah. We're not worshipping Christ in the
manger, but Christ in you, the Holy Ghost, the hope of Life
(Hallelujah.), the Creator, God Himself dwelling in the human
being. "It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we'll see Him
as He is." For we'll be made like Him...?... no room for Him.

EVERLASTING LIFE. 54-1231

84 019 Now, Jesus said, Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth My
Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life."
Now, if Everlasting Life... what does the word "Everlasting" mean?
That means, "Without end." If he--if he... "He that heareth My
Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Life without end."
Why all the coming back and--and trying to get saved over, and all
these things then? If you got life without end, you can't perish. Your
life can't, because you got Everlasting Life.

Now, if some of you might want to look the word up, you'll find in
there, the Greek word, has "Zoe, Z-o-e," the Greek word, which
means "The life of God." Because if it's everlasting, there's only
one thing that is everlasting, and that is God. He is, "From
everlasting unto everlasting, Thou art God."

Now, if He's from everlasting and to everlasting, and has give you
everlasting unto Everlasting Life, then you'll have to become a part
of His everlasting Being. Is that right? And if you become a part of
His everlasting Being, that makes you a son or a daughter to Him;
which exactly fulfill what the Scripture says, "We're sons and
daughters of God." Is that right?

WHEN DIVINE LOVE IS PROJECTED. 57-0126E

…Love is one of the greatest instruments that there is in God's
great economy. God is Love. The Bible said that He is love. And
when you become one of His children, you become a part of that
love. You are a part of God's economy. You become a subject of
His domain. And when you do that, you become a son and
daughter of God. And He said He would give you Everlasting Life.

E-18 018 Now, if I'm not mistaught, and if I understand correctly... I

have no education, just my grammar school. But I am taught by
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scholars, who should know, that the word used, "giving Everlasting
Life," in the Greek is called "Zoe," which means "the Life of God."
Then God's love projected to you brings you and makes you a part
of Him in the new birth. Then you become a child which is be--a
"born of," or "comes from." And that puts you in relationship with
God, so much that you're now sons and daughters.

And God, the Creator, Who created all things by His power,
through His spoken Word... And everything that is, is the Word of
God made manifest; the entire world was made. And how we do
error when we try to ignore God's Word or try to limit God's power
by our own imagination. For the very earth that you're setting over
tonight, is only the Word of God made manifest. God made the
world by His spoken Word. Oh, my! The dirt, all of the minerals,
the gold, all the waters, and everything that there is, is only God's
spoken Word. If not, where did He get it? Where did it come from?
God said, "Let there be," and it was. Then what faith should we
have in Him and in His Word?

E-19 019 Then when you become a son or a daughter of God,

your disposition changes; your attitude changes; your all, your look
towards life and towards others changes. It doesn't mean that you
just have joined church; it means that you have been regenerated.
You have become a new creation in Christ Jesus, that you have...
The old things have passed away, and God has spoken to you,
and you have become a new creature. I want this to go way down
even into church members.

Then as you would love to be in the Presence of Christ, and you

become a part of Christ, then people love to become in your
presence, because you become a part of God, son and daughter
of God.

Did you ever see people that you just love to be in their presence?
There's just something about them that just radiates, that you just
love to talk to them. And other people who are nice people (yet we
don't say this unkindly), but you just can't hardly stay around them.
It is because of the atmosphere that you create. For you as a son
of God are a miniature creator, because you are a part of God.
Zoe 25

And that's the reason you can believe the Bible for anything It
says, for the Word is God's Word. You being a part of God, will
agree with the Word.

THIRSTING FOR LIFE. 57-0630

E-12 012 The Logos that went out of God as... No disregards to
Catholic people now. But the Catholic church, I... My background,
my family's Catholic. And I have the--the Catholic people here, the
book called "Facts of Our Faith." And they use the word of eternal
sonship of God. The word don't even make sense to me. The word
"eternal" means "eternity, which had no begin or has no end." And
"son" means "had a beginning." So how could it... It could be a
eternal Godship, but never an eternal sonship. A son is one that's
begotten of. So it had a beginning.

So... And the Logos, which was the Son of God went out, created
by these great fountains of purity, God, as those Spirits went out,
and it created the Logos. And it was a body. It was in the form of
what we are now, which is called in the clergy way of speaking it, a
theophany. It's a body that doesn't have a spirit in it. It's a body
that's waiting for you Christians. As soon as the life leaves this,
you go into that body. When this earthly tabernacle be dissolved,
we have one already waiting, a theophany.

E-13 013 Now, when God was in theophany, which was Christ in
the making, then that theophany become flesh and dwelled among
us. Then that was to redeem. He came from there down through
this to redeem this creature, give it life, and take it back up into the
eternal one. See?

Now, there's only one Eternal Life, and that lays in God only. And
God only has Eternal Life. And we have been privileged to become
the sons of God. Then that word: "He that heareth My words and
believeth on him that sent me, hath Eternal life." The Greek word
"Zoe," there used for God's own life. The creature that accepts Him
becomes a part of God and is just as eternal as God is. That's
right. There's no reason for us to doubt that. It's God's everlasting,
eternal Word. And everything that had a beginning has an end. So
what...
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JESUS CHRIST THE SAME. 61-0118
E-5 005 Death means separation. He only separates from our
seeing, but he's always alive. "He that heareth My words and
believeth on Him that sent me has Everlasting Life, and shall never
come into condemnation but's passed from death unto Life." Oh,
I--I believe that.

We can't die: got Eternal Life. Eternal, anything's eternal never had
a beginning or an end. So that's God's Own Life. Eternal Life
comes from the Greek word there, "Zoe" which means "God's Own
Life" is in us. And when we come sons and daughters of God, then
we live just as God lives: can no more die than He can die, so
we're part of Him. Aren't you glad to be sons and daughters of
God? What a wonderful thing.

FROM THAT TIME. 62-0713

E-3 003 Now, visions is something beyond anything that anyone
can explain. It's the infinite God Who knows the end from the
beginning, and predict the end, and tell what the end will be;
because He knowed every thing and still knows everything.
There's nothing that He doesn't know. And He--He doesn't know
any more now than He did at the beginning, because He's infinite.
Do you believe God is infinite? If He isn't, He isn't God.

So then, just think. Here's just... You can't break down infinity. It's
just like... To be infinite it's just like to be, what I--would I say,
eternal. Eternal never did begin, so it never ends. Did you ever
think of that? And everything begins has an end. See? And things
that has no end is things had no beginning.

And that's the reason that we have to have Eternal Life. We are
part of God's Life, which the word Eternal... Brethren knowing that
it comes from the Greek word of "zoe," which means "God's own
Life." That's why we become His own children. See? It's Eternal
Life in us. The Life that's in us never did begin; it never can end. It
can no more die than God can die, because It's eternal. There's
only one thing eternal, and that's God. And we become a part of
Him because we come sons and daughters of God. How wonderful
to know that God has promised.

BLASPHEMOUS NAMES. 62-1104M

Zoe 27

27-2 066 Now, I've got the Greek Lexicon here, "The Emphatic
Diaglott." I studied the other day on a word.

Now, in John 14--or John 3:16, we find one place says, "have
Everlasting Life"; another place it says, "have Eternal Life." But in
the--in the Greek version, in the Hebrew it says, "Life without end."
In the Greek word, has A-i-n-i-o-a-n... Almost like "aeon." Aeon is a
space that's can't be... It's a number that can't be numbered. It's
beyond millions, trillions, billions. But this is an aionian of time:
Eternal Life. And the English word for it is eternal. We know it as
eternal, Aionian or Life without end. See?

And if you've got Life without end, how can you perish? You have
become a part of the Eternal, and there is only one thing eternal.
Satan's not eternal. No. He--he become Satan. Hell is not eternal.
Hell was created; it's not eternal. And these bodies are not eternal;
they were created. But the Spirit of God is eternal. It never had a
beginning, or It never has an end. And the only way we can have
Eternal Life (from that Greek word "Zoe," which means "God's own
life"), we have--we become a part of God when we become sons
and daughters of God and we have Aionian Life. So the part that
lives, us, that recognizes this Word from here to there, that
recognizes, is Aionian Life, Life without end. It's God's own Life in
us. Amen. Whew.

Query: Zoe, seed

ELIJAH. 55-0301
E-44 044 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... The Word is "Zoe," "God's
own Life." So if God can't perish, neither can you. God bless you.
God bless you lady out there at the corner, a young lady. I see
your hand. God bless you, give you Everlasting Life now. God
bless you, little girl down there. I see your hand too, honey.

All right, down here in the aisle, yeah, I see you. Back over here,
God sees you. I see the Spanish brother back there, him and his
family with their hands up. God bless you. That's right. Got
Everlasting Life.
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What would the atomic bomb could do for you? The atomic bomb
would have a strike right in your front yard, my brother. The only
thing it could do, take you to Jesus and give you a new body, a
new life. You have it right now. You have it right now. You've got
the very Seed in you, that'll produce that Life, Everlasting Life,
because you believed on the only begotten Son of God.

TOKEN THE. 63-0901M

52-8 163 When anything's sealed inside of a seal, you better not
break it. Can't break it, you--not God's seal. No. For you are...
"Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until
the day of your redemption, when the body's raised up."

It is a seed, a sign, that the seed has been germitized with Eternal
Life, Zoe, "My own life, and I'll raise it up again, at the last day."

And as you walk, you have confidence that the Life of Christ is in
you, and you are in Him. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one
Body, and sealed there by the Holy Ghost, among the believers
like this, until the day that Jesus raises us up.