<TITLE>09. Par 29-30</TITLE>L-29 Said, "I met up with some Nazarene people." And said, "They taken me back in a room and told me, unless I got happy enough to shout, that I wasn't sanctified yet." And said, "I stayed in there, and all of us prayed together till it sounded like one person praying." Said, "I did get happy and shouted." And said, "They told me, 'It's all over now.'" And said, "I--I--I thought it was. Then I went out, and still it--it wasn't all over."
Said, "I sold all of my cars." Said, "I was worth nearly a half a million dollars. I sold my car lot, all of my cars." Said, "The only thing is got is just old beat up car, trying to give it to preachers, and so forth, where I can find peace to my soul." He said, "I want to find the Lord." And he said, "Then I finally run into the Pentecostal people. They told me that I'm... If I'd... Asked me if I'd ever spoke in tongues. And I told them, "No."
They said, "Well, you haven't got It until you speak with tongues." Said, they taken me back, and I prayed pretty near half the night in a little tent out behind a big tent."
And said, "Then I spoke in tongues, and they said, 'Now you've got it.'" But said, "Brother Branham, I didn't have it." And said, "Then I went down to Shreveport, or to Dallas, to the Voice of Healing." Said, "They had all their boys up there," and said, "They tried to do me good, and they couldn't." And said, "Then they told me, you was a prophet. To come see you, and you'd tell me, surely, that I had crossed the separating line, and there was no hope for me, if I had done all this, and still didn't have it."

L-30 And I said, "Well brother, I want to tell you something." I said, "I'm not a prophet. It is--that's what people say." But I said, "I--that's," I said, "I'm just His servant." But now, you don't need a prophet to straighten you out; you just need the word of God." And I said, "What Mr. Graham told you is the truth. And what the Nazarene people told you is the truth. And what the Pentecostal told you is the truth; and yet it's not the truth. To shout, to raise up your hands, to speak with tongues, is not receiving Christ. Receiving Christ is receiving the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then these other things take place after that. See? Now, you could do all those still didn't have Christ yet."
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, where can I find Him?"
I said, "I want to ask you something. Let's go back to your story."
And he walked up; he said, "Well, what do you mean?"
I said, "You said, that day when you come in, picked up that piece of paper, something struck you, and you said, "Oh, I want to seek God." I said, "From--up to that time you were going this a way, down the road. And then, you turned this a way, what did it?"
I said, "What changed your opinion? What come into your heart, that made you one time not care for God, and something come in to make you go to loving God? What done it?"
He said, "Well, I don't know."
I said, "Before there could be a creation, there has to be a Creator, to create that creation. God came into your heart, right there when you looked at that piece of paper."
He said, "You mean I've had it all along?"
I said, "Certainly, brother."
And he jumped out of there, and begin to scream and cry. That was settled. What is it?
He said, "Do you want to pray for me?"
I said, "What's the use of praying for you. You don't need any prayer. The truth has made you free. See?


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