<TITLE>03. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Father, in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son, the lovely One, the Fairest of Ten Thousands, the Lily of Valley, and the Morning Star, the Root and Offspring of David, the Rose of Sharon, the Alpha, Omega, O God, so many titles He had. Yet in the windup, the Holy Spirit said He was Emanuel, God dwelling with us. And we beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace.
Now, we pray that You'll open the Word this afternoon to us. We can read, but it takes You to open our understanding. And now, may our conscience be washed with pure water, the Holy Spirit. Renew our strength and our spiritual sight. Open up our hearts; break up the fallow ground; and move in and plant the seed of an old fashion revival that will start from this meeting and sweep out through Shreveport, Louisiana, and save the lost before Jesus comes. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-12 Now, in the Book of Joel... I just love to read these prophets. Someone says, "Brother Branham," to me, not long ago, said, "why do you always go back to the Old Testament, most always?" Well, I never got a seminary experience to know how to--with a lot of psychology, to do anything or how to... The only thing that I know to be sure that I be right, I take up the type. And if I know what the type looks like, I've got a good conception of what the antitype will be. And what my shadow is when I see it... And the only thing that can reflect a shadow, there has to be light to make a shadow.

L-13 How many times the twenty-third Psalm has been misinterpreted by people. You'll hear them say, "Though I walk through the dark valley of the shadow of death..." It doesn't even read that at all. It say, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..." Dark's not there at all. See? "Though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death..." And before there could be a shadow, there has to be a light to reflect the shadow. See what I mean? If there was no--if it was all dark, there'd be no shadow. So it has to be the Light waiting there to reflect the shadow. And the only thing it is, is just a shadow. And nobody's scared of a shadow, are we? So that's all death is to us. Since Jesus died in our stead, death is a shadow, just something that we pass through, a little place and that's all. Nothing can keep us from the promised land. God's already promised it to us. Jesus died for it. The Holy Ghost accepted us, baptized us, sealed us until the day of our redemption; we're on our road. Everything's got to be all right.

L-14 Oh, my, if that don't take fear out of our hearts, I don't know what will. To think that people was once scared: "Wonder if I can be able to hold out to the end?" Why, don't be scared of that. It isn't whether I held out; it's whether He held out or not. It isn't me holding out. If He held out, I'm already held out. That's right. He's done it; He's holding me, not me holding Him. See? He was the One died for me, not me for Him.
And as this morning, in the sermon, on the cross, that death had a stinger until Jesus took the stinger out of death. The stinger's not in me any more. It's not in you, the Christian. The stinger was in Jesus, but He robbed the stinger; He took it out of death and carried it away to Calvary. So we have no stinger in death. No wonder Paul said, "Oh, death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen."


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