<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 But the thing is, that people, how they limited God. Some of them limit it to just how high they've walked; that's all. Now, if we can't walk where Joshua walked, and where Enoch walked, don't stand in somebody else's way, who's trying to walk there, anyhow. Let's just be reasonable about it: if you don't believe it, why step out of the other fellow's way, and let him walk on. If you can only walk as high as your creeds teach, well, then step out of the way, and let the next man... Don't try to pull him back; let him go on.
My, I'd like to walk where Joshua walked, wouldn't you? Oh, I was reading this afternoon, I believe it was in the Bible, where Joshua, after he crossed, and Israel sanctified themselves, and come across the river. After they'd eat some of the old corn, very type of the millennium... And Joshua, out strolling one afternoon, looking over the situation where the great battle was to take place. I thought, oh, my, that's right. Oh, looking over the situation, just where he knew the battle was. He'd moved thus far; God had told him to move across, but He didn't say, "Take Jericho," yet. You, see? "Just move right here."

L-44 Someone said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, where must I go?" Up here at the next city I was at, at Shawano. He said--the little pastor said, "Where must I move now?"
I said, "Did God move you to Shawano?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Stay right there, till God says, move somewhere else then. And you know you're in the will of God. Stay right there, until He calls you hence."

L-45 And--and Joshua had moved over, and set up the camps of Israel. And one day, he took a little stroll, and was walking out near the walls of Jericho, and all at once he seen a Man standing over against the wall. Joshua pulled his sword, and run to meet Him. And the Man pulled His sword and come to meet Joshua. Joshua raised his hand, said, "Are You for us, or are You of our enemies?"
He said, "Nay, I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord." Amen. Oh, my. What had happened? That Pillar of Fire had been made flesh, standing here then, a pre-figure of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Captain of the host of the Lord. Amen.

L-46 He said, "Now." They got in full armour. And we may not have faith enough to take God's Word like Joshua did, and march around a wall, and shout till it fell down. I might not have that kind of faith, but if you've got it, I sure don't want to stand in your way. That's right.
I might not have faith like Enoch did, to take--or not Enoch, but like Elisha, who took his coat off and hit the waters and walked back across the sea, after he had received in type the Holy Ghost, a double portion of the Spirit of Elijah. I might not have the faith to do that, or throw a cruse of salt in some water, and turn it into good water, from being bitter. I might not have that kind of faith. You might not have that kind of faith. But if somebody else has got it, don't stand in their way. Let them go on. That's right.

L-47 These teachers, many times, they like to point people, to say, "Now, looky here, you see where that one went too far? He went so far he lost his mind." You've heard them teachers say that. But they fail to say, when they find one person who got a little fanatically, and lost his mind, by going too far. They fail to point to the tens of hundreds of thousands, who lost their mind because they didn't go at all. That's right. They didn't go far enough.
Now, let's be reasonable about things. Let's come reason together. We know we got fanatics. We got them here in Chicago. We got them everywhere, but we got some real genuine Holy Ghost material, too. Let's reason together.
Yeah, they'll--they'll sure like to point to the fellow that went too far, that one, but they fail to point to the tens of thousands that lost their mind, because they didn't go far enough. That's right.


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