<TITLE>05. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 I stood by his grave in London, England, not long ago, and I looked down there, and I thought, "Yes, Mr. Cowper..." I just read his history. You know after he had inspiration and wrote that song, when he--when he was up there it's all right, but when he begin to come out of it, he tried to find the river to commit suicide; it was too foggy; the driver couldn't get him to it to commit suicide after writing that famous song: There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, when sinners plunged beneath the flood...
You say, "That's poets." How about prophets? When Jonah received inspiration and went into a city with a--with a nearly a million people in it, and was so wicked that they were very wicked. And he prophesied with such power, after God gave him a message to give the people, when he was anointed prophet, to go down there and foretell, "Within forty days God would destroy the city." And it went through with such power, until they put sackcloth on their animals, the way repented in such a way.
And that man went up on the hill and ask God to take his own life, and the little worm to cut the gourd tree down. Is that right? That was prophet.
Look at Elijah, who called fire out of the heavens, and rain out of the heaven at the same day, when it hadn't rained for three years and six months, killed four hundred priests himself that very afternoon. And as soon as the inspiration left him, he run into the wilderness, and wandered out there, not knowing where he was at for forty days and nights, and God found him pulled back in a cave, somewhere. And a small Voice said... asked him what he was doing back in that cave. Is that right? That's prophets. See? Inspired...

L-15 Oh, Christians, most all Christianity in the way we see it today is so shallow, it's like bubble dancing. You speak of Spirit and know very little of It. That's right. You don't get down and deal with the actual facts of it. You see? That's the reason the theo--theologians today just know from a Word standpoint; they approach it like that with a sense knowledge, and know nothing about the indwelling spirit and the power. See? They don't deal with spirit. They just look at it and say, "Well, I believe it's this." See, you draw your own conceptions. And that's the reason they make such fatal mistakes.

L-16 Sometimes in the meetings... I say this. Someone said to me, "Brother Branham, the reason... Why don't you?" I got a little letter here not long ago, and it said good criticism, said, "Brother Branham," said, "your meeting is head and shoulders above anything I've ever seen." But said, "The thing of it is, that you're just so lazy, and won't pray for God's sick children. He had to raise up Oral Roberts to pray for His children." Said, "Oral will pray for about five hundred, while you're praying for one."
I said, "That's true. But Brother Roberts is God's servant. And he's doing just what God told him to do, and I'm doing the same thing, just what God told me to do." That's right. Sure. Brother Roberts, if he's a true man of God, which I believe Brother Roberts is, a real man of God, and then Brother Allen, Brother... All those brothers, are real Christian brothers. I believe every one of them. I believe every man that calls on Jesus Christ is my brother. Yes, sir. And I'm right with them a hundred percent, to back them up in anything. As long as it's in the Bible and right, I'm right behind them. If they get out of the Bible, I still won't condemn them. I love them just the same, and go to them and try to see if we can't get the thing straightened up.


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