<TITLE>15. Par 155-165</TITLE>L-155 But, you know, that old hen made a mistake one day, just like what the old church did. That's right. She got out one day way up in the barnyard like they had being going and after while the little old duck stuck his head up, and [Brother Branham sniffs--Ed.] he smelt water. It was his nature, you know. Amen. He smelt water. He said, "Honk-honk, honk-honk." Oh, my. He wasn't a chicken nature anyhow; he was a duck nature. So he smelt the water; there was a creek run down there. The old hen hollered, "Cluck-cluck, cluck-cluck, cluck."
He hollered, "Honk-honk, honk-honk," going right straight to the water as hard as he could.

L-157 That's the way it is then when a man's borned into the Kingdom of God. The old church can say, "You get away from them holy-rollers; it's nonsense; it's this, that, the other."
"Honk-honk, honk," he's got to get to the water. Hallelujah. Glory.
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." Glory to God. You say it's crazy; but, brother, we're happy.
"Honk-honk, honk-honk, honk-honk." Them little ducks started to the water. What was it? It was his nature. He couldn't help it. There was something in him calling to the water.

L-160 And when God's in a heart, it'll call you to an old fashion, Holy Ghost meeting. Glory. That's right, brother; I know it's my nature. Hallelujah. Unless your nature's been changed, you'll still listen to the cluck of the old hen. But when you smell water, if you're a duck, you're a gone gosling, 'cause you're head for the water. Hallelujah.

L-161 Joshua said, "Aw, we can make it." Joshua said, "We can do it."
Caleb said, "We can do it."
"How do you know we can do it?"
He said, "Because God has said so, and we're going over. We're going to make it, and we're going to do it." And away they went. They took off to the land, and they got the evidence of the Holy Spirit, and they come back to prove it. The land was good. it was bearing good grapes. I'm glad of it, aren't you? Oh, my, just eat them and slobber like a horse eating clover. That's right. Yes, sir, just having a big time, enjoy.

L-163 What do I care what the world says, nothing to me. The very God that raised me up, that saved my soul, and sent me out around here, praying for kings and everything else, across the country. It was this good old fashion Holy Ghost that did it. I've never been ashamed of It. I've said in kings' palaces, "I have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost." Hallelujah. That's right. They're hungry too. They're hungering and thirsting.
Looky here, they got to murmuring and got to complaining. The water supply was cut off.

L-165 Now, hurry. What time we got? Say, I'm sorry; I'm late. Excuse me for teaching too long. Oh, I haven't taught yet, have I? But just a minute; I'll get to my lesson after while. No, I was just kidding you; set still. Let's get just a few words here; I got something I want to say.
The 5th verse of the 21st chapter now, and listen real close.
And the people spake against God, and against Moses,
Where have you brought us out into, from Egypt... into this wilderness?... where there's no water; and--and our souls loatheth this light bread.
After been filled with the good Angel's food and everything, they said, "Oh, we're tired of it. We'd like to have some garlic and some pumpernickel." They wanted the old flesh pots of Egypt.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and... bit the people; and much people... died.
Therefore... came to Moses, and he said, We have sinned, and we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the fiery serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make... a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
And Moses made a serpent out of brass, and he put it on a pole, and it came to pass, that if any--if a serpent had bitten a man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.


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