<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 You know, I've noticed that among... I have two Bibles. One of them is nature. I watch that closely, for God lives in His Bible of nature.
You take an animal when it feeds off of a certain type of ground, that animal will turn the color of that ground, if you notice it. Take for instance, if you take of the--even to the--the varmint coyote, down in Mexico, you notice him there. He's--he's kind of--in them red weeds and things, the coyote turns red. And up in this part of the country, or farther up, of course, in the west land, he will turn a--a brown looking, and kind of a bluish-brown, because he--he feeds in that part of the country. The deer will be the same way. The same little mule deer, in--in the way down in Mexico is a reddish looking. Up here, he's grayish looking, as he goes on farther north, he turns dark. It's what ground he feeds on.

L-5 And--and you notice another thing about nature, that whenever you find out in the desert in Arizona and around, you find there's a--a group of a--a... Everything out there where's there's no rain, it's always got stickers on it. Every weed you get a hold of has got a sticker on it. Well, then you take them weeds and come up here where they have a lot of rain, it doesn't have any sticker on it. That's a good lesson.
See, if the church is all dry, and no Spirit in It, they always got little stickers that boosting around. See? You need a good, old fashion, Holy Ghost rain, don't you? That softens you up. (Ha-ha-ha.) That's right.
And, the--the Church can't do it yourself. It takes God to do it, with you. God can't do it without you, and you can't do it without God.

L-6 Mr. Wood is here tonight somewhere. I believe he's taking recordings here of Mr. Beeler. We was in Colorado not long ago, and I was thinking of a spring I used to go by up there. And this little old spring, I've... Always seemed to be the most happiest spring I ever seen. I always liked to drink at it, 'cause it's always a bubbling, bubbling, bubbling.
I set down one day, and thought I'd talk to that spring. And I said, "What you bubbling about?" Well, 'course it couldn't talk back, but I just have to answer for it. See? I said, "Maybe you're happy and 'cause you're jumping and carrying on like that because that the--that there's deers come here and drink out of you. You're a very cool, nice water."
"No."
"Maybe because bears come by and drink."
"No."
I said, "Well, maybe--maybe because I come by is what make you bubble like that."
"No."
I said, "Well, what makes you bubble like that?"
If he could answer me, he'd say, "Now, look, Brother Branham, it--it isn't me bubbling; it's something behind me, pushing me and making me bubble." So that's just the way it is with a Christian.

L-7 I had a man tell me, say, "Now, Billy, you're getting over amongst a bunch of holy-rollers." And said, "They all are worked up by excitement." Said, "They just a bunch of excitement. That's all there is to it. They just scream, and jump, and holler." Well, there's got to be something making them do that. So that's what it is. It isn't them jumping; it's Something in them jumping. That's right.
If I'd go out tonight, and could speak to the star and say, "What makes you shine? You're so pretty. You're just lighting up the heavens and everything. What makes you shine like that?"
If he could talk, he'd say, "Brother Branham, it ain't me shining, it's the sun shining on me." See, that--that's what it is. It isn't the Church that's shining; it's the Holy Spirit shining on the Church. That's right. That's what gives the Life, the testimony, and makes them what they are.


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