<TITLE>14. Par 144-152</TITLE>L-144 You really get down and mean it before God, God will take you over across there. No matter what the seminary preachers say, we can have the Holy Ghost, 'cause God promised It to us.
That's where Caleb based--based his faith; that's where Joshua based it, because God said, "It's yours; I've already given It to you." Hallelujah. I like that. Not "I will," "I have."
"Those who He called, He justified." Is that right? "And those who He's justified, He glorified." Is that right? Then, brother, in heaven we're already glorified together with Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. That's right. Just let the devil squall and scream, have all of his tantrums he wants to. THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's right. Oh, my.

L-147 Let's get over here somewhere and go to preaching somewhere else where you get off of that a little bit. Oh, how marvelous.
They got to murmuring after that, fussing. Let's go over about the 21st chapter and begin about the 5th verse. They got to murmuring there, and fussing, carrying on; cut the water supply off.
Maybe that's what's the matter with the church tonight, doing too much fussing and grumbling around. The water supply is cut off.

L-149 You know, I--I travel around over the world a lot. And one of the most stickerest, nastiest places to try to lay down, is in the desert. Everything there has got a sticker on it. You know why? Every kind of a little old weed's a cactus. You can't lay down nowhere; it's sticking you. The reason of it is, they ain't got no water. Water makes it soft. Where there's lots of waters, you don't have any thorns and thistles, where there's lots of water.
And I tell you, brother; you take an old church that's dry in his bone, and no Holy Ghost in it, and no salvation, no Divine healing, no power of God, no shouting, no joy, and it's always, "This, oh, she done this, and he done this, and he done this," sticker, sticker, sticker... What you need is a good old fashion outpouring, gusher, of the Holy Ghost (Hallelujah.), soften up a little bit. Amen. That means "so be it." Branham Tabernacle needs a good dose of that too. That's right. Oh, is that right? Amen. Oh, I'm having a good time up here. My clothes fit me just exactly right, Brother Higginbotham. Yes, sir. My collar's not too big; my shirt fits, just feels good. Even my wife's not here, so I--I can just have a glorious time. Oh, don't you tell her, no. All right, but I'm having a good time.
You say, "You're happy?"
Sure, I'm happy. How can I keep from being happy, and know what I know? Amen. Christ saved me, filled me with the Holy Ghost, give me a ticket to heaven. I'm just having a big time, going on, saying, "Come on, all of you." Yes, sir.

L-152 Reminds me of a guy one time that went to set a hen. And the old hen had... He had enough eggs to set all but one. And he didn't have... He thought, "What am I going to do for that one egg?" So he goes out and he finds a duck egg, and he puts it under the old hen.
And the old hen hatched out all of her chickens and the duck too. And they was walking along in the barnyard, you know. And if that little old duck didn't look out of his place; about like one of you holy-rollers now, you know. Walked around, "Quack-quack, quack-quack," like that. And, oh, they'd get out behind the barn, you know, and the old hen would catch a grasshopper. And, "quack-quack, quack-quack." Here she'd go, "Cluck-cluck, cluck-cluck." And here come the little chickens running to her like that, every one. But the little old duck didn't know what the call was, "quack-quack." He didn't know what an the dust meant; it got in his nostrils and everything. He was a funny-looking little fellow, out of his place.
Like a good old fashion Holy Ghost member in an old cold formal church, just out of place. Talk about all this, that, and the other, and who's president. They want to know Who, God; they want to know about God.


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