<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Now, if we're going to have to look at this... Now, I want you, if you will, to listen close now. I may not be able to put it together right. I've just... I only speak by inspiration, and inspiration is just when you find it here, you grab it and hand it out. It's over here; you reach and get it and hand it out. It may be an old fashion sassafras way, but it'll do you good if you'll keep it. That's right. Is that... It'll stick to your ribs and hold you. It saved me, and it'll save you.
I don't... Someone said here not long ago when I went through almost a breakdown. They let me stay in the pulpit for eight days and nights without leaving, praying for the sick. I said I'd pray for all of them. There was just about three times as many, maybe more, when I stopped than I did when I started, constant line day and night running. I slept against the side of the pulpit, drink orange juice, and things, setting beside of the pulpit. And when I come out, I couldn't tell where I was at, and I was out for about eight months like that.
In there someone said, "Brother Branham, did you--did you keep your religion during all that time?"
I said, "Oh, no. It kept me during that time. I couldn't kept it; it keeps me."

L-29 And that's the way Jesus Christ is. He keeps us. We don't keep Him. He keeps us. It's not whether I can hold on; it's whether He held on or not. That's the main thing. It's what He done. What God did for me in Christ is what I am today. That's what you are by--by sovereign grace of God.
Now, in order... If you went out here and looked at your field, or a big field was all plowed up and fixed up real nice, and there's something planted in there. The only way that you're going to know what's planted in there, is go back and raise up the clods and look under there, and see what the seed is. You'll find out what kind of crop you'll have by the kind of seed you got planted. Is that right?
When our Bible said that we are sown with the incorruptible Seed of God, imperishable. It cannot perish; God's Word can't perish. Now, every seed will bring forth of its kind.

L-30 Now, let's go back and find today in this great age that we live in, one of the greatest, darkest times of all the--the history outside of the dark ages that I could ever think to what little history I've read. We're living in it right now. When two thousand years of Christian teaching, and yet the world two years ago hatched out thirteen million infidels. Just think... Think of that. The darkest time that we ever seen...
We got the very best colleges we ever had. We got the very best schools we ever had. We got some of the best educated men that ever stood in the pulpit, and we got less Christianity than the world has known in years and years. That's true.

L-31 Just like doctors, we got the best doctors we ever had. We got the best science we ever had. We got the best medicine we ever practiced with. We got the best hospitals we ever knowed, the best trained nurses, and got more sickness than the world ever heard of, because we got more sin and unbelief, than the world ever heard of. That's exactly right.
In the day of what we call civilization, we become uncivilized. We take the wrong road at it. I say many times... I'm not talking about the group that I'm speaking to this afternoon; I'm talking the world in whole. It's a whole lot easier to talk. I can take a child of eight years old and make him see Jesus Christ a thousand times quicker than I can a man with two degrees out of some college somewhere. He's just as smart. He--he just knows it all, and you can't tell him nothing, and he's just got his mind set, and he won't--he won't humble himself.


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