<TITLE>13. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 When I was a child, twenty-two years before this beautiful bridge spanned the river, setting down in my yard, I seen this thing go across the river and seen the men that lost their life on it. My mother thought I was nervous.
Right here at Mr. Wathen's on Utica Pike when I was packing water in two little syrup buckets, out of the bush come a sound of "Whew." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] I didn't see no leaves blowing nowhere, and looked up in the tree, looked like a barrel-size, going back and forth in the tree. And out of there come an audible voice and it said, "Don't you never smoke or drink or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
I'm at home. I'm among people. I'm among young ladies that I went with in my young days. I'm amongst boys here, boyfriends that I played together. I ask you today if you ever seen me smoke, drink, or be drunk, or--or defile myself in--in that way? No, sir. I did not. Not for my goodness, but it's by His mercy, His foreordained will for me to do this.

L-45 Later on I become a minister. You very well remember the time when the star appeared down here on the river, that Light. It's appeared: we've got It now hanging in Washington, DC The only time in the world they had to that time, that a supernatural Being could scientifically be proven; it proved by the FBI that is was absolutely a supernatural Being. It comes into the meeting; It's right here at the platform now. And it's not me; I have nothing to do with it. It's the Angel of the Lord. And He's here now.
And a man can come through this country, tell you anything, minister can speak of anything. Man is subject to making mistakes and telling stories. Man's word's just a man's word. But when God speaks that it's so, then you believe it, because it is so. God's Word will be worth more in the next few minutes than all the words that I could say.

L-46 I was born... I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance. How many Christians believe that? It's not what you try to work yourself up to; it's what you're born to be. See? Back in the making... You begin in your germ of life when you become germatized in your great grandfather. That's Scripture. Levi paid tithes in the loins of Abraham, his grandfather. See? All right, but your germ, your life, your soul, begin in the creation of God in the beginning. Didn't Jesus tell His disciples, "I knew you before the foundation of the world"? Called us, ordained us to be ministers of the Gospel, and so forth; it's the foreordination of God.

L-47 Now, how many... Now, in here, in working... Now, watch. Jesus said...
Thank you, Teddy. [Brother Branham speaks to Brother Teddy--Ed.]
He said, "The things that I do, shall you do also, and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." Is that right? Do you believe so?
Now, you sick people, look here for a minute now. Do you believe that that is the truth, that Jesus said in Saint John 14:7--or--or I mean 14:12, "The things that I do, shall you also; and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father"? And Jesus plainly stated... Now, listen, and outside, I hope you hear. Jesus plainly stated that He could do nothing of Himself, but what God showed Him to do in a vision, that's what He done. Is that right?


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