<TITLE>15. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 I hear something beating again. What is it? It's that promise God made back there in the garden of Eden. That's the second Adam going yonder to die in your place. That's the Blood of the Lord Jesus, it hit that...?... and the Blood running down His legs and dragging out the footprints of the Bearer as the cross moves up.
See Him fall on His road up to Golgotha as He goes up the hill there, the bee of death stinging around Him, trying to buzz, and telling Him, "It won't be long now. You're going to--you're going to Calvary. Won't you take it back." Jesus wouldn't pay attention to that, this bee stinging at Him. The sting of death always been a horrible thing that's kept man pent up...?... years.

L-59 But did you ever notice? Here a little insect like bees and things that has stingers in them, if that stinger ever one time anchors deeply, it pulls out and the bee goes away, and the stinger's pulled out of the bee, and the bee can't sting no more.
That's what Jesus done to death, to the believer when death was stinging around Him. He pulled the stinger out of death when He went up Golgotha yonder, and now death has no sting. No wonder the great Saint Paul could say, "O death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." The stinger's been pulled out of death for every man who will confess his sins and accept Jesus Christ's death in his stead. Do you believe that? It has no sting no more.

L-60 A believer not long ago... I walked into the room where an old lady was going away one morning, and she looked over to me, and she said... I said, "Well, Sister Fullman, what about it?"
She said, "I love Him, Brother Branham, with all my heart." Said, "Think of it. It won't be very long now till I'll be in His Presence." Oh, what a glorious morning that'll be.
Standing by the side of Paul Rader... Many of you knew Paul Rader, didn't you? How he fought to win the prize and standing yonder in California under the influence of the--of great denomination had broke him down, and there he was dying with a cancer in the room.
The little Moody Bible quartet was there, singing for him, and when he about ready for him to die... Paul had quite a sense of humor. He said, "Oh, who's dying here, me or you?" Said, "Raise them curtains and sing me some snappy Gospel songs."
And they got to singing,
Down at the cross where my Saviour died,
Down there for cleansing from sin I cried;
There to my heart was the blood applied;
Glory to His Name!
Paul said, "That sounds better." He said, "Where's Luke?" That's his brother that always went with him. They traveled together like Billy, my boy, and I. And when he got...
He said, "He's in the next room." He couldn't stand to see his brother go.

L-61 He said, "Tell him to come here," and when he got up close to him, he reached over and got a hold of Luke's hand. He said, "Luke, we've come a long ways together, brother." Said, "To think of it, in five minutes from now I'll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness," squeezed his brother's hands and went to meet God.
Oh, let my end be like that. Let me, when I come to the end of the road... There's the big place setting out yonder before me; it's set before ever person here. It's called death. Every time your heart beats, you move one beat closer to that; and one of these days you're going in at the door. That may be before the sun rises in the morning for some. Did you ever think of that? Know what time your card will be taken from the rack up yonder in glory, and you'll have to answer. There's not enough in the medicine in the world to hold you here.


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