<TITLE>17. Par 191-202</TITLE>L-191 Why, the skies, where it hadn't rained for three years and six months: brass... Brass speaks of Divine judgment, the brazen altar, judgment upon the nation that had forgot God, brassy skies. Wish we had time to get into it. But then unbelief would've picked that up and throwed it away, "Well, if that's all You can send me..." Yeah.
But what did Elijah see when he seen the very first wheel turn? Oh, my. He said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." No cloud no bigger than that, what would it do to water the nation? Why, if the cloud's so... It's so hot in them skies that it would've "whew," vaporized it, vapor would've went away like that. But as soon as Elijah saw the first sign, the first little teeny move, he said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain," when it's just a cloud that big.

L-193 Brother, I believe the, right now at this minute, that the power of the Holy Ghost that's in this room to cheer every sick person there is, if you can feel the cloud the size of a man's hand, scream and holler, "I hear the sound of perfect healing." God has to...
If you reject and say, "Well, I didn't get nothing." Then they'll die out; the hot waves of hell and doubt will fade it out of your soul. But when you get that little grain of Seed, stand on it. It's not like the rock of Gibraltar, but like the Rock of Ages. Stand there and you'll feel the sound of abundance of rain. You are God's child. Satan has put that affliction upon you, and you know, and Christ has already healed every one of you.

L-196 A sinner come to the altar and say, "Brother Branham, I--I... Say, I want you to pray for me. I--I want to be good, but I just... You pray for me," and go back in your seat.
Next night, say, "How many wants to be saved?" Here he stands up. "You want to be saved, young man?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, why don't you get saved?"
"I don't know."
Said, "You're just..." The devil's holding that boy. That's all. He wants to do right, but there's a spirit, a power that won't let him do right.

L-199 Now, hallelujah, here it is. No wonder that God would never let a true man of God ever say he could heal somebody. Christ done that when He died. I couldn't save nobody, or no one else can save anybody, but God.
And God can't save you, because He's already done it. The only thing you have to do is accept it. It's already done. I wasn't saved twenty years ago; I was saved nineteen hundred years ago. But twenty years ago I received it and accepted it. If it hadn't, the first sin I done, God would've wiped me off the face of the earth; 'cause He said He would, and He has to keep His promise. I was healed nineteen hundred years ago, but I've got to accept it.

L-201 And the only thing that kept me from being saved when I was twelve years old, because a spirit hung over me, a devil, saying, "Wait a little while longer." That's the reason you wasn't saved when you become the age of accountability. A spirit, you got with a crowd, and that hovered over you and kept hanging over you. You wanted to do right. But there's not a man that's got his right mind but what wants to do right, but there's something won't let you do right. Is that right? That's the devil. Hallelujah. Christ paid your healing and your salvation.

L-202 Now, here it is. You get ready. He commissioned His Church to cast them devils out. There you are. "In My Name they shall cast out devils. You ain't going to heal nobody, but you're going to cast the devil away from them so they can accept the healing I've already done." That's right.
Preachers stood on the platform and preached the Gospel, devils scatter. The man come to the altar under conviction, say, "I want to get saved." He never saved the man; he cast out the devil (That's right.), and the man got saved. He come, accepted his salvation.


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