<TITLE>18. Par 68-73</TITLE>L-68 If I could go out tonight and look over there at the big morning star, the evening star hanging out, I'd say, "What makes you shine, star?"
He'd say, "Brother Branham, it ain't me shining."
I'd say, "Well, what makes you so pretty?"
"It isn't me pretty."
"Well, what are you shining about?"
"It's not me shining."
"Well, what's shining?"
"It's the sun shining on me. That's what's making me shine."
Not long ago I was talking to a doctor. He said, "Reverend Branham, those Holy Ghost people you're talking about that's only excitement. It's only worked up."
Brother, you know what I believe it is? I believe it ain't them shining. It's the power of God shining on them, making them shine. Hallelujah. When God shines His power, and Divine healing and blessings, and glories, you can't hold your peace. Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." Oh, hallelujah! That's right. Hallelujah.

L-69 I laid down by an old spring where I used to drink, laid down there and just drink, and drink, and drink. I noticed that was the happiest spring I ever seen. It was always bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble. That's like a good old fashion Christian, always bubbling over whether things going right or not, just going just the same, bubbling over.

L-70 God works in His nature in the grounds too. Do you believe that? If I'd sit down and talk to that spring, I say, "What makes you bubble? What makes you so happy?"
He'd say, "Brother Branham, it ain't me bubbling."
I'd say, "Well, maybe that you bubble just because that--that I drink from you."
"No."
"You bubble because deers drink or bears drink?"
"No."
I say, "What makes you bubble?"
He say, "Brother Branham, it ain't me bubbling. It's something behind me, pushing me, making me bubble." And that's the way every man that's borned again of the Spirit of God. There's something behind you pushing you and making you bubble. Hallelujah. Oh, glory. That's right. It makes you bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, everlasting joy springing up.

L-71 He said to the woman at the well, "In Me is living waters (Hallelujah); I'll give you living waters, bubbling up into Everlasting Life." A whole geyser brother, when she bursts open she just keeps spuing. Whew. Just take the cap off and let her run. Amen.
God is in His universe. You believe that? Sure, He is. God is in His universe.
We had a little boy lived down our place, and then, and he went to a very formal Sunday school and--down by the Ohio River. And as many of you fellows setting here, boatmen, knows what joy it is to be on water and then the... This little fellow got all enthused one day and he said, "Mother, i--if God is such a great Person. Can anybody see Him?"

L-72 "Why," she said, "Sonny, I don't know. Ask your Sunday school teacher."
So he went and asked his Sunday... said, "Teacher, can God--anybody see God?"
She said, "Well, I--I don't know. You ask the pastor."
So went to the pastor and he said, "Pastor, can anybody see God?"
He said, "No, son. No one can see God. Of course not. We just believe there is, and no one can see Him."
Poor little fellow said, "Well, if--if He's so real as the Bible says He is, why can't somebody see Him?"
Said, "Well, you just can't see Him, son. He's--He's not to be seen."

L-73 So well, he went fishing with an old fisherman down on the river, an old fellow had white beard like this and long hair, an old fellow down on the river. So one day he was up around Six Mile Island and it come a storm.
Coming back down the old fisherman was a very renowned Christian. Just coming down pulling the boat oars like this, you know, and the oars clipping the water, you know, as the music to any boatman, and he was pulling like this. And after the rain had went away, well, all the leaves was washed off, and everything was so clean and fresh smelling. And he looked and the sun come out, and there was a rainbow across the sky.


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