<TITLE>11. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 We don't have... We are... One thing sure: Jesus is not dead. Buddha, their god died almost two thousand, three thousand years ago; about twenty-five hundred years ago Buddha died. Mohammed has been dead; Mohammed has been dead for practically two thousand years. He's in the grave. Every other god or--or--or founder of these religions has gone on. But there's only One that's raised from the dead and can be proven that He's raised from the dead.
The time has come for a showdown. The time has come where either God is right or God is wrong. So we know that God is right. So you people who's been faithful along the line and believe in the resurrection without even seeing Jesus and His great and mighty works, you have the privilege now to know that you've made the right decision. And how much more will you know it when He comes the second time.

L-43 But you made the right decision. And to you here tonight, men and women, boys and girls, and whoever you are, if you haven't made this decision, put up your hand right now to Christ, will you, and say, "Christ, I lift my hands to You and by this I want to accept You. And I know I've been wrong in life, but I now surrender all my will to Your will. And from this night henceforth, I will serve You the rest of my days. I pledge that as I raise my hand."
God bless you, young lady. That's fine. Someone else, raise your hand? God bless you. Someone else, is it... God bless you. God bless you, my colored brother. God bless you, my brother, there. God bless you over here. Back there, yes, my brother. God bless you, my sister. God bless you, my brother. I see you back there, down here, sister, see your hand. Oh, my, hands everywhere...
Oh, I want to... Put your hands up; if it's on your heart put it up right now and just see what it does for you. Just see when you raise it down hand if something don't say, "That's what you ought to have done. That's what I wanted you to do." God bless you, lady. Now, you feel better about it, don't you? Certainly you do. You've done the right thing.

L-44 Say, "what does that mean, Brother Branham?" It means that you've answered a call to God knocking at your heart (That's it.), knocking at your heart, not willing that no one should perish, all might come to repentance.
Could I get some up in the balcony there, surely... Among you young people up there, would you just tonight make your decision?
I was thinking today, yesterday being my birthday, and thinking of... Just seem like it hasn't been no time ago, I was just a boy. And here I am already forty-seven. How can it be? Passes so quick. Only thing I look back, I become a minister when I was about twenty years old. And now, I--I'm just sorry I didn't become a minister when I was five years old. That's the only regret that I have, that I--I just didn't preach the Word quicker. He knocked at my heart and I put it off. Oh, it just haunts me.
I think many people back there that died during that time, maybe I could've brought some souls to Christ. I'll never, all through ever... No matter how many millions years passes, there's just never another opportunity. This is the opportunity now. Won't you just slip up your hand to Him?


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