<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-24-7 See what kind of a light's he walking in? According to the weather. It gives the light outside, the gloomy, the foggy, the halfway, and a bright day, then a gloomy, and a foggy, and a cloud over the sun. That's the way any regenerated, justified man lives. That's right. That's all the light he has to walk in when he's just walking by that.
He said, "I come to Christ, Brother Branham. I joined the church; I put my name on the book. I--I'm trying to live the best I can."
Well, bless your heart, brother. I appreciate that. God appreciates that. If you believe. "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life."...?... my brother; I love you. "But Brother Branham, my ups and downs, oh, my, I'm the most miserable person. I have to fight every day." Oh, yes, brother, it's where you're walking. That's all right. Then say, "Well, I want to go a little deeper."

L-25-3 Well, he comes into the court. Now, what's in there? There's seven golden candlesticks by that holy place, and it's giving light. The candlesticks are giving light. That's to the man who quits his drinking, quits his smoking, quits lying, quits stealing, treats his neighbor right, good to his wife (or her good to her husband, the same way, man or woman), the believer. He's come into a place where he's quit all of his meanness, which is through the Blood with sanctification. He's called to a new Life, and he walks in there.
He don't have to walk by the light out there; he's got a better light. He's walking by the light of seven golden candlesticks which is burning olive oil; and the olive oil was representing the Holy Spirit. The fire was the baptism which brought baptizing, or even baptized right in there by the Holy Spirit. But you're not hid away yet. You're not behind the veil.

L-25-5 Here he is. He's walking in these seven golden candlesticks. There's many light--much light in there. But there's days when those lights get dull. There's days when them lamps smoke, and the light's not so good. There's times when them lights have to be relit again, and you have to borrow a little from the neighbor to light one candle to the other one. It's still not a good light. We're thankful for it, but it's still not the right light. Oh, brother, see that? It's still not the right light.
You say, "Brother, I spoke in tongues; I've shouted." Good, wonderful. But let me tell you something different. All right, he's walking in this light. It's an artificial light. It's not the light of the sun, the light of the moon, the stars. The man in the justified courts, when night comes, he has a very dim light, just the stars, maybe a pale moon, a lot of flying clouds. He's in an awful fix.

L-26-1 But the man up here at the altar who sta--keeps hisself under consecration, and says, "Lord, I--I'm going to live right by You. I'm the deacon in the church, or something or another. I'm going to live good to my neighbor. I'm going to try my best to do better, Lord." Well, he's living in a better light. His light seldom goes out, but they do smoke up, and they have to light one from the other one.

L-26-2 But the man who walks beyond that, and goes in when the world is shut off, when the veil drops around him, down under the locking of the wings of the Cherubim, the great Shekinah Glory hung under there. It never got dim. It never went out. And the man who lives in the Presence of God under the veil lives in the Shekinah Glory. I don't care if the storms are raging, or the clouds, or the moon don't shine, and the stars don't shine. When the candlesticks goes out, that doesn't matter. He's living in the Shekinah Glory of God under the power of the Holy Ghost.


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