<TITLE>15. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 And I say that same smitten Rock tonight is here. And it'll pour forth an old fashion Holy Ghost revival that'll tear Shreveport apart, if you people will go to digging, moving all the difficults out.
If you dig up against one thing, the beer cans in the--in the ice box, throw it out and make way for the Holy Ghost. Every time you hit against a snag throw the thing out. The deeper you dig, the more water you'll get. So what you have to have is to make a way for it.
No matter how much preaching there is, how many visions there are, the subject was then, and the main principle was make ready for the water. Get the ditches dug.
That's what we got to do tonight, is to make way for the Holy Ghost to pour down. Make it in your house; make it in your church; make it in yourself. Kick everything out of the way; get ready. There's coming a gusher, if you'll get ready for it. If you don't make ready for it, you'll never see it.
Now, it's up to the church tonight. Got a nice tent here, got nice pew, churches, seats, got nice people, got nice singing. We've got a wonderful Saviour. But get every... Lay aside everything, every sin that does so easily besets you.

L-51 "Brother Branham, I don't do nothing." Maybe that's what's the matter. That's the trouble of it. It's more sin not to do, than it is to do when you know better. That's right. "He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it's sin." You got to make ready. Doing nothing is the worse thing you can do, do nothing about it.
You southerners remember your history? When up here, when Grant was setting just across the river... And he had a boy out there on guard duty. And the Rebels was across the river. And this boy, walking along there, kind of dazed around with the dreams of his sweetheart. He left his post of duty and went down to pick some violets to send to his sweetheart. He didn't mean to do wrong. He went. Then at that time, there was a spy ready from the southern army, and they slipped in. And they looked around; they found out that the southern army, was two or three times the size of General Grant's.

L-52 Well, what happened? The boy come back on the post of duty not knowing what had happened. But the spy had already been there. And what happened? They stormed across the river, and drove them plumb back up into the state. And that boy was shot an hour later, not because he... It... They didn't have not no objection to him picking the violets. They didn't have... It wasn't what he'd done: it was the things he didn't do. He didn't stand to his post of duty. He didn't guard the post like he was supposed to. And he spoiled the whole thing.

L-53 And that responsible tonight lays at the Life Tabernacle, and other tabernacles and churches in Shreveport, Louisiana. God is here, taking with a storm. It ain't what you're doing, than it is what you're failing to do.
Let's do something about it. Let's dig with all of our hearts, that when that day of judgment comes, we can say, "God, I did the very best I could, and You know I did." Amen. When we know what we can do, that's all's expected.


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