<TITLE>06. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 You know, I--I like pancakes. I don't know whether you do or not. Down in the south, we call them flapjacks. And they're really good. And I--I like to put molasses on them. And I had me a bucket of molasses. And I... That little fellow liking sweets, you know how bears like sweets. So he'd got the bucket, the lid off the bucket. I had a nice big full bucket, 'cause I like plenty molasses. You know, I'm a Baptist; I don't sprinkle them; I baptize them. I pour it on good and heavy.
So then, really on... This little old bear got the bucket off of there. He'd sock his little foot down in, and then lick it like that. He was molasses from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. I never seen so much... And he looked around at me, and the little fellows, his eyes all stuck together, you know; he looked at me. He turned back around, stuck his little paw down again, just kept licking molasses.
I thought, "There's no condemnation to them that's in Christ Jesus. No matter how much danger is around, if you're licking it, you don't notice it." That's all.

L-22 Put me in the mind of a good old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, no condemnation at all, hands plumb down to the--up to your elbows in the honey of God, in the power of God. You don't care what's going on. You just keep on. They say, "Well, I don't believe in Divine healing." Don't make any difference to you, if you're licking honey or 'lasses just keep licking. That's all. That's what we need.
Then I noticed after he got enough of it, the little fellow went off. And the funny part about it, he was so full of molasses, and when he got over there, his mammy and the other little cub, licked him. That's puts me in the mind of a meeting. Somebody go up to meeting and have a big time, come home, and the rest of them wants to lick on him the rest of the night. That's right. Watch God when He's moving in His great power in His nature.

L-23 I used to go to an old spring there and drink. And every time I'd drink from that old spring, I noticed that... I set down one day, just talked to it. And oh, it was just so happy, and jumping, and bubbling.
I said, "Wonder what makes that spring so happy all of the time?"
I looked at it, and I thought, "Now, if you could talk, I want to ask you a few questions. 'Why are you so happy? Are you so happy because I drink from you?'"
If he could speak, he'd say, "No."
I said, "Maybe you're happy because deers and bears drink from you."
Say, "No."
"Well what makes you bubble all the time?"

L-24 And if he could speak, he'd say, "Well, Brother Branham, it isn't me bubbling. It's something behind me pushing me, making me bubble."
And that's what it is in an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting. It's not them shouting; it's the power of God moving in them, bubbling up, pushing outside the powers of the living God, God's provided way of providing water, the artesian well, springing up... joys...
God's dealings, He's always had a way to deal. He's got a way today of dealing with individuals. Sometimes if you won't listen to Him, He will permit the devil to do something to you, so that He can bring you, lay you on your back sometimes so you have to look up. That's God's provided way many times of doing that.

L-25 God's provided way in the garden of Eden when man had sinned... And when God seen that man had sinned, what a horrible picture it was, when man had separated himself from his Creator. And just the very strain of man, just as soon as man realized that he had lost his fellowship with His Creator, instead of coming out and confessing himself to be wrong, he run off and hid. That's the way men still do: instead of coming out and confessing you're wrong, run off and hide. And they still do that. Mankind, it's just in man to do that.
Now, then God went up and down the garden crying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?"
It ought to have been Adam crying, "Father, Father, where art Thou? I want to get to You and make things right."


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