<TITLE>20. Par 190-198</TITLE>L-190 Now, you got a soul, and, papa and mama, you the same. But if you keep it, you're going to lose it. That's right, the witches of hell will take it. They're all after it. But if you give it back to the One Who gave it to you, you'll keep it to Everlasting Life. Hallelujah. Amen. Excuse me, children; I'm just old fashion enough to shout. If you keep it... 
Let's say it, all together: [Brother Branham and congregation say together--Ed.]
 "If you keep it, you'll lose it. If you give it back to the One Who gave it to you, you'll keep it."
Amen. Remember it now, give it to Him.
Now, let's watch. Oh, she begin weeping; she said, "Oh, what you going to do with it?" She said...
"Look here, I want to show you something."
"What you got under my bed there?"
Said, "Let me show you." And he pulled it out.
"Oh, it's a little reed basket."

L-192 It's a little ship, what it is. Hasn't got no rudder, and it hasn't got no sail, hasn't got no cannons on it, and yet it's going to pack the most precious cargo that was ever packed by a ship to that time. Hear it. It hasn't got no captain or no crew. Brother, I know a Ship for an adult like that too.
"Oh," she said, "Am, let me just look at it. Amram, let me see." She goes over here.
Said, "Look here, I got a little lid on it. See, you pick the little lid up."
Said, "Whew, stinks. Um. Whew. My."
He said, "Yes, it stinks."
"Why?"
"I poured it full of tar. It's all pitched, all over." Pitch is tar, you know, so they put pitch all over it. That's what he was boiling down here, and poured on top of these reeds. He'd pitched it. Said, "See, the water can't get--get into it then. See, it's sealed all over." And said, "And it--it just can't get into it; the water can't. I pitched it."
Said, "Whew, smells bad!"

L-196 You children know what tar is, when they're fixing the streets, you know, Oooh, that awful smell. But it--it--it--it keeps the... It--it shuts out all the cracks on the street. And that's the way this does; it shuts out all water.
And that's what prayer does for the believer. That's what you, keeps the world out of you, is when you pitch yourself on your knees, and say, "Lord Jesus." And the Blood comes down and seals you all up so the devil can't get you. See, that's right. See? So then, oh, many times the people go around and say "it's awful," but that don't make any difference; it keeps you safe. See? That's the main thing: keep safe. Say you're old fashion, but, that doesn't matter; it keeps you safe.

L-198 "Well," said, "what are we going to do?"
"All right," said, "I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to take the baby, and we're going to have a little talking. And we're going to take the baby and put him in here, and put him out in the Nile River."
"Oh, no, no, no. Amram, you can't put our baby out in the river."
"Yep, yep. I know what I'm doing." See, he'd had a dream; he knowed what to do. See? God had instructed him. He knowed what to do. He built this, and he seen it was the very type of the ark that saved Mo--a Noah back there in his time.
So he said, "Look here; I got a little hole cut right in the top of it so he can breathe. See, he can get sunshine through there."
And you know, the ark in the Old Bible, way back there, it was made the same way. And it had a hole right in the top of it, so you could see in (You see?), and where he has to look up.
So then this poor little baby, nameless, didn't even have any name, little nameless baby, and yet the cutest little baby in the world.


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