<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>54-0404M, Earnestly Contending For The Faith, The Church Of The Open Door, Louisville, KY, no tape
L-1 Good morning, friends. And I'm so happy to be here this morning, seeing everybody looking fresh and nice on this fine yule spring morning. Even the birds sing lovely today. I was certainly amazed when I walked in to hear the brother. I have heard of him, and he gave me some records, was sent to me this week. And now, to hear the Gospel preached in bird language, well, maybe that's what the birds are doing when they're singing like that: preaching the Gospel to us.
It was once said that the little robin (and he was impersonating them), said... A little robin said, "I wonder why those human beings walk around so down-hearted and--and so--look like they're just so selfish." And said, "Wonder if they haven't--they haven't got a heavenly Father to watch over them, like we robins do." So maybe that's about it. You never heard of one having high blood pressure, did you? Did you ever see them on crutches, going to the hospital to be operated on? No, they got a heavenly Father, He watches over them, and He takes care of them. But we--we know more than they do (You know?), and so we have to be cut on, butchered up, and all kinds of diseases, and fuss and fight with one another; and that's the way we do.

L-2 Now, hearing this, our brother, on those birds like that, that is a spiritual gift. Try to impersonate it once, see how you get along. God has give that to the brother. I heard this young man singing that song, "Yielded, Lord, to Thee." And how that Brother Cauble, setting there, told me he was just converted out of the nightclub: he and his wife. And how that--that singing, try to impersonate that? It's a gift; it comes from God. Now, the gift was in him when he was born. The gift was in the other man when he was born. But what they use it for, is what goes. Every man will have to answer for his talent. God gives men talent and they have to use it. Some can preach like a house on fire, and the other, different things. But God requires these talents. And I'm so thankful to know that these two brethren, setting back here, have yielded their talents, which they could be out here in nightclubs and everything else, a using those talents, but they surrendered them to the Lord Jesus Christ to win souls. And I'm happy for that this morning. And my brethren, may the Lord ever continue...

L-3 The little brother here, the song leader, Brother Cauble, many others here, God has give you talent. Maybe you say, "Well, Brother Branham, He hasn't give me nothing." You don't know, maybe. See? You may just go try something. Maybe you've never went out and testified to somebody. Try that. Everybody can't do that. Maybe you can't--something else that you could do. There's something you can do that you can put it to God. But now, the thing you have to do, is do what the brother sing in his song: yield. The man who could whistle and impersonate all the birds that I ever heard, well then, that--that man yielded himself to it--give in to it. The man who could sing, he yielded himself; he give in to it. Now, for these things here, of the Gospel and the manifestation of visions, I just yield myself and give in to it, and that's what does it. See? It's not me; it's Him. And it's something that you can't help. The man can't help because he was borned to whistle like birds. Why, he's just... He was born that way. The man that sang, was the same way. And to see visions is just as common to me as it is to them to do that. You see what I mean now? It all together, it's for one edification of the glory of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.


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