<TITLE>16. Par 172-183</TITLE>L-172 Could you imagine the wise men coming to see Jesus? I'll just take a little drama for a minute. I can see... They say three wise men. We'll just say there was three. Jim, John, and George, we'd say their names was. And they're coming to see Jesus. And I can see them all getting ready to go. We'll take this fellow Jim. He's quite a man. He runs and tells his wife, said, "Wife, you know what? I seen the star, so I've got to go." And so he goes over and he packs up to go.
That's what's the matter with people today. They're trying to pack up to be a Christian. If there's anything you need, is unpack to be a Christian: got too many things hanging on now.
One of them say, "Now, mother, you know, I couldn't go along unless I took my card table," so he hangs that on the camel. "Because, you know, the other boys wouldn't appreciate me going along if I didn't have my card table along."
All these other little old things that keeps you... And you have a little box of selfishness; you have to hang that on too. You have to hang on a little tattling, a little backbiting, a little of this, that, hang it on the camel. And the first thing you know, he jumps up, astraddle the old camel, say, "Come on now. Let's go." The old camel can't hardly move. He's mashed down so hard till he is bowlegged almost.
And you're always kicking and complaining about your church you are going to, and maybe it's you've got so loaded up till it can't run. That's what's the matter. You need to unload, wash up, clean up, get right. Amen. What's the matter with me?

L-178 Notice. That's what it is. I can see the others going, moving on. And the first thing you know, he got down and looked at that star again. And so, the first thing he begin to throw tables one way and packages the other way. The wife said, "Where you going, John?"
Said, "I'm laying aside every weight that so easily beset me. And I've got to run this race with patience. For straight is the gate and narrow is the way, but few there'll be that'll find it." There's only room for you and Jesus. Nobody else can go through. Amen.
She said... I can hear her say, "Well, look, you're forgetting your compass."
"I don't need any compass."
"You forget your seminary degree. You're forgetting your baccalaureate services and all these other things that you hang on."
He said, "Listen. I don't need any compass."
"How you going then?"
He pointed up to the star, said, "I'm going God's provided way. God provided me a star to follow that'll take me to the Christ."

L-183 And what tonight, we don't need any great long schoolings and all of this. We want to go God's provided way. And God's provided way of this day is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and led by the Holy Spirit are sons of God. That'll bring you to your destination. Lay aside the weights. Lay aside everything else. Let's get back to the apostolic day. Our foundation is sure. God's proved it to us by signs, and wonders, and pictures, and everything else. He's proved that He's with us.
And around the world this glorious mighty Gospel swept a million five hundred thousand into the Kingdom of God last year. The Pentecostal church succeeded every church there was in the world last year in conversions: a million five hundred thousand recorded. Hallelujah. What's the matter? It's the most mightiest thing there is on earth today. But the devil's got among them and broke them off in this little group, and that little group, and this little group to make them fuss with one another.
If they'd ever forget their selfishness and their difference, and join their hands together, their hearts together as one, the Millennium would set in. That's what we need tonight, friend, get together. That's what Branham Tabernacle needs to do. That's what all the churches need to do, is get together as one fellowship, as one individual in Christ Jesus, a newborn babe, and walk this straight narrow path looking to the Author and Finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ.


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