<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Oh, and I think of the great heroes of the Bible. It just reminded me of here sometime ago, I was up in the mountains here, and I was noticing the--the--the ducks, when they're all around on the water, puddling around. But the very first time a cold wind blows down, those little old ducks get out there, honk two or three times, and take off to Louisiana just as hard as they can go to the rice fields. What's the matter? They don't have to have any theology. He was absolutely borned a duck, and when he's duck, he's got instinct. And he knows, if he's a duck, and instinct tells him to move out, that there's cold weathers ahead; go to where's it's warmer and better ground. Well, if--if a duck can do that by being a duck, what ought a man to do by the baptism of the Holy Ghost when he's borned again of the Spirit of God? He ought to be able to know that when trouble is ahead, he can step out on God and wave away with his wings of faith, and move out from the thing, move out from your sickness, move out from your shackled down conditions, and all those things. It's time for God to move, and do those things, and grant the Presence of the Lord Jesus to bless, and to give power, and great things for the church in any day. God has promised that He would do it.

L-23 God said, "In the last days, that His Spirit would be poured out from on high, and He'd show visions, and signs, and wonders in the earth." And all these different things, God promised to do it. And if God promised to do it, He's obligated to take care of it. Don't you believe that? Yes, sir. He certainly is. And then when this...
I've noticed again, one time, a little old nightingale, that I used to--when I pastored the Baptist church. I used to come in at night time, and that little fellow would set there, and he'd look all around at night time. And when he could see a--a star somewhere, the clouds would blow back a little piece, and he could see a star, he'd let out to singing just as loud as his little heart would let him sing. Why? He knowed that the sun was shining somewhere, for he seen the evidence of it; a star was shining, proved the sun was shining somewhere, that there was still a sun in existence.

L-24 And I think, my brother, tonight, that we, as the day when the Holy Ghost comes down like a rushing mighty wind, It blows the clouds of blackness back, and we have an old fashion revival where the Holy Ghost is being poured out. It ought to make any Christian rise and shine, for I know God still lives, and reigns, and pours out His Spirit upon the people (Yes, indeedy.) in the days that we're living in.
If I could walk out in the morning, and look up to the big morning star, and say, "Morning star, what makes you shine?
If he could speak back to me, he'd say, "Brother Branham, it's not me shining; it's the sun shining on me."

L-25 A doctor said to me, not long ago I was talking to him; he said, "Brother Branham, what's the matter with those people," said, "they're just worked up. That's what makes them act like that, crying and running to the altar." Said, "It's emotion."
I said, "Doctor, you ought to know enough; it takes something to excite the nerves before that a person could be emotional."
Certainly, it is. It's something present. And it is true, that when the Holy Ghost comes down, It stirs the crowd to emotion. They're setting there anointed with the Spirit of God, and the Holy Ghost sweeps across them, it stirs emotion. It's got to.
Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." And what could we do? My, when I think of that.
"It ain't the people," he said. It ain't the people shining; it's the Holy Ghost shining on them that's a doing these things. That's what's doing it. It's not the people; it's the Spirit of God on them that makes them believe. It's the Spirit of God on them, that gives them liberty. It's the Spirit of God on them, that makes them feel free.


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