We Have A Positive Token That Identifies Us As Christians – Bro. William Branham
“I said “Paul said, in acts 19, to a bunch, a group of Baptists, which a Baptist preacher that had been one of John’s converts, was proving by the Bible that Jesus was the Christ. When he passed through the upper coast of Ephesus, he find certain disciples, and he said unto them, ‘have you received the Holy Ghost since you have believed?’
They said, ‘We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.'” Then he asked how they was baptized?. And they hadn’t been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, the sacrificed Lamb. They wasn’t identified with Him, at all. They just believed it; like the medicine setting there, and hadn’t took it. Paul commanded them to be baptized over again, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And when he did this, then the Token came up on them. They were identified by the works, and signs of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues through them, and prophesying, and magnifying God. They were identified as-as with their Sacrifice. And the Holy Ghost is our identification. It’s what identifies us as Christians.
Not our membership at churches, not our understanding of the Bible, not how much you know about the Bible. It’s how much you know about the Author, see, how much the Author is living in you. It’s your-it’s your self gone. You’re no more. You reckon yourself dead, and the Token is what lives in you. And it’s not your life; It’s Him.
Paul said, “The life that I now live.” He lived a different life from what he once did. “It’s not me, but Christ liveth in me.” There is the identified Token that God required. Identified with our…Identification with our Sacrifice, the Life of our Saviour in us, the Holy Spirit.
Oh, what a-what a positive Token! There cannot be any more Token. Oh, my, if you’d only could catch the-the thought of it. If I had the-the power this morning, with words, to express and place into your soul that’s on the in; not your ears, but your soul, and you-you could see the guarantee of it. It-it takes, it makes you so relaxed.”
This message by bro. William Branham is entitled “Token” and it was preached on September 1, 1964. You can listen to the full message here: https://youtu.be/G0yrhwhl8mY
