<TITLE>16. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 God's under obligation, if you believe in Divine healing, to lead you to the fountain that's open. Don't you believe that? Yes, sir. If your hearts are calling, the deep's calling to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. You believe it, and God has led you here for that purpose tonight. You wouldn't have come out on a slick snowy night like this just to show what kind of clothes you were wearing. You never come here for no other purpose, because you believed that God was the Healer. And as long as that's in your bosom, God's under obligation to place it before you, 'cause you're calling for it. And God will place it before you; then it's up to you to whatever you want to do about it.
Simeon could've seen Him and walked away from it. But he embraced it. And tonight, when the Holy Spirit begins to move through the building, in the prayer line, reach out and embrace God's promise. It's for you. It doesn't matter whether you get up here or not. That doesn't have nothing to do with it. Up here, that doesn't have anything... You just embrace it right where you're at. And God's under obligation to bring it to you. Don't you believe that?
Led by the Spirit of God... How that Spirit-filled lives, are always led by the Spirit of God. Certainly. Going to let you in on just a little something now, if you'll just excuse me for another few seconds here, a few minutes. I want to say something just now. You believe in being led by the Spirit of God?

L-50 Here sometime ago, I was in--in Arkansas, and I was bring--coming out, just when I first started out in my meetings. And I was coming out of a place, where they was bringing me out of an auditorium at Camden, Arkansas, and the police was bringing me out. And there was the people crying, trying to run through and touch your clothes. You know how people are. And I got a heart the same as anybody else has. And I was going along there, and I heard somebody hollering, "Mercy. Mercy." And I looked over to the side, and there stood an old colored man. They had segregation there, you know. He... Just a little white rim of hair around his head, holding his cap like this, saying, "Mercy. Mercy."

L-51 The Holy Spirit said to me, "Go over to him."
Well, I said the police, I said, "I shall go over."
Said, "Reverend Branham, you can't do that. You're in the South." Said, "You go over to that colored man," said, "you'll start a race riot, as sure as the world." Said, "These white people wouldn't stand for it."
I said, "I don't care what they think; God Almighty tells me to go to that man." And I started towards him. They run over there, and took... pulled a line around.
And I heard his wife say to him, said, "Honey, here comes the parson."
I--I went over there, and he--I said, "What do you want, Uncle?" And they formed a ring around like that to keep the people back, and people screaming and going on, you know.
And so they said, "Here comes the parson." And I walked up to him, still the anointing, they was bringing me out of the meeting. And so, then... I got...
He said, come over and said [Brother Branham makes a noise to illustrate how the man tried to talk--Ed.] feeling like that, said, "Is--is this you, parson?" He felt around my face.
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Parson, is--is your name Branham?"
And I said, "Yes, sir."


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