<TITLE>04. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 So now, let us bow our heads just one more moment to speak. How many has a need tonight? Would you raise your hand, say, "I want to be remembered in this, Brother Branham. I want you to remember me before the Lord now"?
Our heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Thy beloved Child, we come as humbly as we know how, and ask You for forgiveness of our sins and trespasses. Whatever we have did or said to this day, or any other time in our life that's against us tonight, we humbly bow and confess.
And I pray for this audience of people as they raise their hands. Many of them, Father, are maybe desperately in need of forgiveness, some besetting sin, some habits, some sickness, some disease or affliction, some loved one that's in trouble. Whatever it is, Father, I pray that You forgive and forget all their iniquity and heal all their diseases.
And pour out Thy blessings upon us tonight through the reading of the Word and the preaching of the Word. For we ask it in Christ's Name, Thy beloved Son. Amen.

L-12 In the II Kings, and the 3rd--3rd chapter of II Kings and the 16th verse...
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. This was in the Book of II Kings the 3rd chapter. And maybe when we would go home...
How many reads the Bible, let's see your hands. Oh, it's wonderful. Read it. Study it. And you, especially you born again Christians, that's the--the bread and the meat for the Holy Spirit. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

L-13 What if I was a doctor tonight, and a young fellow come to me, had a great frame on him, and yet he looked so weak and run down, and I say, "What's the matter, son?"
He said, "I'm just so weak, doctor. I can't hardly stand up."
I asked him a few physical things. "All right?"
"They're all right."
I'd say, "Well, what makes you weak?"
"I don't know, doctor."
I'd say, "Well, what did you eat last?"
"Well, I eat a half a cracker day before yesterday."
Why, I'd say, "Only thing you need is a good square meal. You become anemia; you become run down, weak."

L-14 And that's what's the matter with the church. You got to have a good, square, Gospel meal, about every day. If you don't, you're going to be anemia. You're going to get run down. Taking a lot of God's vitamins out of His Word, and it certainly does bring up the Spirit of you, and makes you feel refreshed and renewed.
Now, there'd just been a great event taken place. And there'd been a house cleaning time in Israel. But the bad part of it was, by the vote of the people, and the run of the--of the way they voted in, they had just about made it as bad as what they would today if one pastor would leave the church, and the deacon board would vote in another. Sometimes it's taking out a good one, putting in a bad one.
But when God sends one along, he's the right man. Always you should pray and seek God's favor, you who are--have such, to select your pastor.

L-15 But now, it was in the days of Elijah, Elijah, the mighty prophet of the Lord. Oh, God, what would we do if we didn't have some men of God in the world, that would stand in the breach, and--and try to intercede for the people, and with enough nerve to tell the people, or not enough nerve, but enough grace, to tell the people what's right and wrong.
Whole lot of that is the matter, or the trouble's today, is because man, in one sense... I'm not condemning my brethren, certainly not. I'm--I'm only trying to present a truth. The only reason today, that the conditions are...
If every pastor would've stood firm on the Word, and not let down and compromised, it wouldn't be like it is today. But compromising, self-sufficient organizations, and so forth, has always tried to take the place of the Holy Spirit.


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