<TITLE>12. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 What type of baby was this to be, when this John was born? My, I see him come forth out of the wilderness, not with his collar turned around in the back and having fried chicken three times a day. No, sir. He had an old sheepskin wrapped around him, a camel skin belt on, but he preached repentance. And he stirred the regions all around. He preached Christ.
And brother, when Christ is preached in its simplicity, yet in its power, it'll stir nations every time, when Christ the living God has been brought to reality to the people. Certainly, it's always been. God's power has always been with His people through all ages. Last night striking on the children of Israel, I thought then, when they come to a place, sometimes we get baffled. When they come to Kadesh-barnea they were baffled. God made a way for them. When they was at the Red Sea, God opened up the Red Sea.

L-45 Look at them, they come out of that country without one thing but a little pan full of bread on top their head. You don't have to wait till you quit all your meanness, come just the way you are. That's the way you want. Say, "Well, when I get rid of this, and when this or that, I will come." Come now just the way you are.
Notice, when they got across on the other side, the bread give out. God always provides a way. That night when they went to bed, I can see the prophet go out and pray. The next morning when they woke up, they looked all around over the ground, and there were manna laying all over the ground like hoar frost. It tasted like honey and wafer. And they went out and begin to pick it up and eat it. Oh, it was wonderful, manna. Very beautiful type of our manna today, the whole wilderness journey was. And look at them, God supplied their need for manna. And then when they were... Taste like honey in the rock; they said. Did you ever taste it, the heavenly manna coming down from God out of heaven? Sweeter than any honey I ever tasted.

L-46 So then, the first thing you know, the people thought that wouldn't have to be rationed, so they just go out and get enough to last them a long time. That's the way people go to church, once on Easter, think they got enough for next year.
A pastor told me not long ago, in a certain big evangelical church; he said, "Rev. Branham, I always bid my people a very Merry Christmas, A Happy New Years, on Easter." Said, "I won't see them any more till next Easter."
You know why? The people tried to do that there. But they found out they had to get a new case every day. The kind that they got and kept over, some of the people went and done anyhow. And they found out that it become contaminated. Wiggletails got into it, was no good.

L-47 That's the way of a lot of our experiences today even in Pentecost: got a lot of wiggletails in it. It's time to get rid of the thing. Not what we did thirty years ago, what we do today. What's that experience with God today? Contamination... Say, "Well, twenty years ago I had a wonderful experience." What about now? "Well, I believed Him a long time ago." But what about now?
Now notice, I love this. He said, "It taste like honey." It reminds me of David. David was a shepherd. And the shepherd in the old times used to carry a little scrip bag on their side like this. And they put honey in there. They eat some of it themselves. But when a sheep would get sick, they go to a limestone rock. They take some of this honey and rub it all over the rock. And then the sick sheep, they'd bring him up near the rock, and the sick sheep would go to licking on this honey to get the honey off, and he'd lick the limestone out of the rock, and he would--it would heal the sick sheep.


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