<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-3-6 The Bible said here,
If there be one who's spiritual or a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in visions.
May the Lord add His blessings to His Word.
Now, just as a heart-to-heart talk, I'm going to... Joseph don't know this, but I'm just going to ask him if he will just... Any time he wants to interrupt me talking and say anything...
We had an interview something like this, this morning on the radio. Did you all hear the program? That's... And so then, to--to--today I thought maybe just to kind of get the--the feeling of the people so that you can see that the operation of the supernatural, and just give a heart-to-heart talk to one another: lets you in on the inside of this just as far as I can go. And I've never... Many of these things that I've got on my heart to say, I've never said to a audience before in my life, so may He add His blessings to what we say.

L-4-3 The first thing we want to speak of is: "What Is a Vision?" What would it be? Some--so many people... I'm not saying as our Brother Billy Graham said, answering my critics... I'm so thankful I have so few critics. Nearly everyone... Some of them who's never been to the meeting, they might say, "Oh, well, there's nothing to that," but once in the meeting it pretty near always settles it, when Jesus gets ahold of their heart, and they see then that it's--that it's true.

L-4-4 A vision is a--is just... Many people ask me, "Brother Branham, is it the material that you look at, or is it just impressed on the mind, or what is it?" No, it's material. It's just as real as I'm looking right now. And now, how that happened, it's done by the sovereign grace of God. And when just a baby, when I was first born, my mother tells me that this Light come in and hung over the little bed that--that I was borned in; and then since I can remember, those things has taken place before me.

L-4-5 It just--it just opens up. It just seems like (There's no way I could really explain it, but just to get the best that I could.) just a yielding to the Holy Spirit, and it just starts, and there it is before you. You're conscious that you're standing here, and yet you're forty years back in somebody's life watching what they're doing. And then only thing that I say is just what I'm looking at; and then when I kindly come to myself, I realize I've said something, but many times I don't know what I've said. And the way I get it is these boys, them setting down here with this tape recorders; they play it back over for me, and that's how I pick it up. So it isn't in myself at all. And then that--that is given for one--one purpose.

L-4-6 Now, I think (And I say this from my heart.) that the greatest and highest form that there is for God to get His message to His people is for the people to believe His Word. That's right. That's the highest form: preaching the Gospel...?... is the highest form. Then, if you notice, the Bible places it that way. First, apostles; secondary, prophets, and so forth, then, on down, on down, then into the nine spiritual gifts operating in the--every local body.

L-5-1 Now, my services in America hasn't been too good, as they should have been in America. My services are more forceful for the Lord overseas. They rally to it better. Now, I don't know why. Now, I'm not speaking of you people. No, I'm speaking of the general public (See?), all around, like Chicago in whole, we'd say, or--or Durban, South Africa, in whole (See?), something like that, or Mexico City in whole. Well, they will respond to it eighty percent more than they will in America.


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