<TITLE>09. Par 91-100</TITLE>L-91 Ever what that was (you know) that I couldn't make out, It would come on me. And I have a way of knowing things if the Lord wants me to know it, you know. And I don't... That's the reason I say I don't breathe this out, never before in public. If I really want to find out anything, the Lord usually tells me about these things. That's what the gift is for, you see. So you can't just throw that out before the people, it becomes like casting your pearls before swine. It's a sacred, holy thing, and you don't want to do that. So, God would hold me responsible. Like talking to brethren and so forth, I wouldn't try to find out something evil about a brother.

L-92   One time sitting at a table with a man, him with his arm around me, said, "O Brother Branham, I love you." And I kept feeling something moving. I looked at him. He couldn't have told me that; I knowed he didn't do it, see, 'cause there it was. He was absolutely a hypocrite, if there ever was one, see, and right there with his arm around me.

L-93 I said, "Well, okay," walked away. I don't want to know that. I'd rather just know him the way I know him, as my brother, and let it go like that. Let God do the rest of it. See? And I don't want to... don't know, want to know those things.

L-94 And many times on these things, it's not here in the church. I'll be sitting in the room, sit in a restaurant, and the Holy Spirit will tell me things that's going to happen. People's right here that knows that to be true. I'll set at my home and I'll say, "Now, be careful, there's a car coming after a while. It'll be a certain, certain person. Bring them on in, for the Lord has said they'd be here." "When we go down the street, there'll be certain things happen. Watch at that crossing there, because you're going to almost get hit." And just see if it ain't that way, see, every time, just perfectly! So you don't want to throw yourself too much into that, because you'd... It--it's... You can use it, it's a gift of God, but you have to watch what you do with it. God will hold you responsible.

L-95   Look at Moses. Moses was a God-sent man. Do you believe that? Predestinated, foreordained, and made a prophet! And God sent him out there, said, "Go speak to the rock," after it done been smitten. Said, "Go speak to the rock, and it'll bring forth its waters."

L-96 But Moses, angry, run out there and struck the rock. The water didn't come, he smote it again, said, "You rebels! Must we bring you water out of this rock?"

L-97 You see what God did? The water come, but said, "Come up here, Moses." That was the end of it, see. You have to watch those things, so you... what you do with Divine gifts.

L-98   Just like a preacher, a good forceful preacher, and get out and preach just to take up offerings and money, God will hold him responsible for that. That's right. You have to watch what you do with Divine gifts. And, or try to make some big prestige or big name for some church, or a big name for himself. I'd rather have two or three nights meeting and braze on somewhere else, and be humble, and stay down. And you know what I mean. Yes, sir, always keep your place where God can put His hand on you.
This is inside Life now, remember.

L-99   So then this day, I thought, "Well, I'm going to walk up." And I just so alarm with those people, I thought, "I'll find out about those men." And out in the yard I kept looking for them after the service was over. I looked around. I found one of them, I said, "How do you do, sir?"

L-100 He said, "How do you do!" Said, "Was you the young preacher that preached this morning?"
I said... I was twenty-three years old then. I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "What was your name?"
I said, "Branham." And I said, "Yours?"


<A HREF="P10">Next Page</A>