<TITLE>17. Par 69-73</TITLE>L-69 Notice, let me tell you, then this woman, when after a while she got to a place to where she was a... she got sick. She put it off a little while, finally she went to the doctor. Well, brother, it'll catch up with you as sure as anything. They found out that she had an advanced malignancy, nothing to do but die.
The pastor of our church, Reverend Orman Neville, the Methodist church, he goes to see the woman. He said, "Now, I'll go and see her, 'cause I know Brother Branham knows her daddy and I think he knows her. And I know she's living over in that kind of a life." Said, "I--I'm going to see her and get her straighten up, 'cause that's what he'd tell her soon as he got there. And ask her if she wants me to come over."
She walks over and he said, "Being that we belong to the same church, lady, I come to speak to you."
She said, "All right, what is it, mister."

L-70 And he told her who he was, said, "Your father and I are very good friends; we both up there, and the pastor, we went to Asbury College together." He said, "We're very good friends." Said, "I just want to ask you something." Said, "Don't you want to straighten up your life and come back to Christ?"
She said, "What?"
Said, "Straighten up your life and come back to Christ?"
"Why," she said, "I'm just as good as you are."
He said, "That's not the sub... That's not the question. Don't you want to straighten up your life?"

L-71 She said, "I belong to the church, and I have since a child. I was on the cradle roll. And I'm a Christian; I've been a Christian, and I, when I die I'll go to heaven." She actually believed that, reasoning. And she said, "I'm just as good as you are."
He said, "You know Brother Branham?"
She said, "I've heard of him."
Said, "I want him to come over and see you." And said, "I know as soon as he come, he was going to call this thing to your hand."
Said, "What thing?"
Said, "Lady, this it's this thing laying in this package of cigarettes. What about that?"
She said, "Why, you fanatic, I guess you think that's wrong."
He said, "I know it's wrong."
She said, "I never sent for you to come."
He said, "Just a minute, lady." Said, "What about that common law husband?"

L-72 She said, "The door that you come in at, is ready for you to go out at. If I wanted somebody that had some sense to talk to me, I'd send for somebody and not you."
So he said, "All right, lady, just remember."
He come back and told me when I come in. He said, "I wanted you to go there."
I said, "Just watch her at the end."
When she come to die, her backslidden pastor standing out there let her get by with such as that without telling her the truth, they was all in the room. And the first thing you know, her intellectuals begin to fail, begin to break up. She couldn't think.

L-73 "Now, the soul that sinneth, it shall die," is that right? That means to separate. "Death" means "separation." "He that heareth My Word, believeth on Him who sent Me, has Everlasting Life," can't die. See? But when you grieve that soul, it goes away from you. It was done far from her, didn't talk to her no more. But when her intellects begin to break up, she said... Then nothing left here, but the soul had to come back. Well, what was--what condition was it in. See? When it walked up, it begin to rebuke her for the life she'd lived. She said, "My, God, I'm lost."
So the--the pastor said, "Oh, now, here, don't get hysterically."
She said, "I'm not hysterically." She said, "Go get Brother Neville right quick."
Said, "Here, here, here, here now, here, I'll call the intern." And the doctor come in, give her shot.
And she said, "I'm--I'm lost."
"Give her another, doctor."
"I'm--I'm lost; I'm lost. I'm lost. I'm..." And the hypo stopped the confession. But that soul that she grieved, she'll have to be tormented with it as long as there's an eternity to last. See? Be careful. You take God's Word. God is in His Word, not in some man's theology, but in His Word. Do you believe it?


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