<TITLE>14. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 "Yes." Said, "This fellow poured water on Elisha's hands. He's a real proph..." Yeah, he was. He'd been in good company. Said, "Go get him." So they got on their chariot, and away they went, and stood before the prophet's house. He come out, and he looked at them kindy angry. He looked all around; he said, "Why don't said--said to Jeroboam. Why don't you go to your mother's prophets, back there to the idols of Baal? Why don't you get down there to them? Why'd you come to me?" He said, "If it wasn't the I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you." Kindy got his dandruff up, that preacher did. You know they can do that. Said, "He said, "I wasn't... I wouldn't even look at you, but nevertheless, bring me a minstrel." See, got his temper all up. He had to get calmed down.
Now, you people don't believe in music in the church, what about that? The minstrel begin to play and the spirit come on the prophet. See? If music helped bring the Spirit on a prophet, then it'll do the same thing tonight. Elijah's Spirit...

L-38 Now, I can't make much music. I just got a ten stringed instrument here, but I can sure do--do the best I can with that, like that. [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] Well, you say, "I'm not the prophet." Be one of the instruments then. Make a little music somewhere. Do something.
And the Spirit of the Lord come upon Him. And when the Spirit come, he begin to see things. A vision come. And he looked around; he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. Get out there and go to digging ditches, for you're not going to hear any wind or see any rain. But THUS SAITH THE LORD, the ditches is going to be filled up with the water." Brother, I'm telling you, they went to digging. Right out there in that desert. How's it going to come? There ain't going to be no rain. That's God's business to take care of that. It's your business to dig ditches. That's right.

L-39 They went to digging. Some of them said, "Well, I've got the digger." The deeper you go, the more water you're going to have. That's the same thing tonight. Get to digging some ditches so the Holy Ghost can travel through it. That water come from that Rock that was in that desert out there, that had been smitten in the days of Moses. It was still there. It's still here tonight, that same Rock that the children of Israel drank from. He was that Rock. "God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him, not perish." A perishing people, from the smitten Rock, lived. And He's the smitten Rock tonight, to a perishing people, the only hope of Life there is. Perfect type. There He was.

L-40 The trouble of it is, you go to digging, the first thing you know, you stick your shovel down: say, "Pay ten percent." Oh, oh. Can't do that. You don't get much water. The next you got... If you'll just keep on digging, brother, and keep on digging, and dig them old doubts out, them old dish pans and rocks and stones and things like that, dig deep enough to throw it all out, and get enough water flowing through there so you can get a good decent drink once in a while. What's the matter tonight? You got to dig away from your church, dig away from this, dig away from that, and dig into Christ Jesus. Hallelujah.

L-41 The next morning, they come to find out they seen some water. The Moabites looked and they said, "It looks like blood." And they begin to run into--said, they thought they'd slaughter one another. And Israel won the victory; stopped up all the wells over there that day; broke down every city; and won one of the greatest victories of all the ages. Brother, if you'll dig that ditch in your life tonight, and through out all that old nasty stuff in your life and heart that don't belong there, throw out all the old unbelief and what Dr. so and so said, and stop the actions of...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

