<TITLE>14. Par 44-46</TITLE>L-44 So we find out then, little old Jairus he thought... He reached over, and he got his little priest hat and put it on like that. He started walking out. First thing you know, he met some of the congregation.
"Where are you going, Jairus?"
Oh, my. What am I going to do now? Show my colors? Am I going to have to be a traitor? I'm afraid if I deny it, then He won't come with me. I've got to be a real soldier.
That's the way. That's it. "Well, congregation, I want to announce to you now. I'm going down by the lake. I just heard that Jesus is here. (Amen.) I just heard that Jesus has arrived."
Oh, my. I--I feel very religious. "Jesus has arrived. I'm going down to get Him."
"Why, the very audacity, pastor. Do you mean to tell me that you're going to degrade yourself as a scholar as you are, with all the B.A.'s, the Bachelor of Arts, and the everything. Your new degree that was just give to you, LL.D., and you mean to tell me that you're going to mix yourself with that bunch of holy-rollers?"
What was it? He didn't say, "Well, I'll go like Nicodemus by night." Huh-uh. The need was right then. Brother, he couldn't wait. And that's what it is tonight. We can't wait.

L-45 Did you hear the newscast tonight? Did you read your newspapers? The whole world is in a turmoil, on the Suez Canal, there's a third world war coming up, an atomic war. And while she's brewing, what can happen? It lays in who shoots the first atomic bomb.
Your paper said that this country here was way hotter than it'd ever been for this time of year. Many places are hottest it ever been in that time. Why? Their atomic bombs has already got this world moving from its orbit into the sun. It's like God said it would be.
The time is at hand. There's no time for waiting. Let's get to Jesus right quick. They say, "Well now, Brother Branham, do you have an education? Know what you..."
I might not have an education, but I know what I'm talking about. I may not know the Book too well, but I know the Writer, the Author, real well. I know the time is at hand. We can't wait any longer. Let them that's filthy, be filthy still; and them that's holy, be holy still.
The hour of your decision is now. This may be the last night that you'll have the opportunity. You don't know. Many's got to stick their chest out, like Jairus did.

L-46 Said, "I don't care if you expel me, if you excommunicate me." Oh, he got some holy boldness in him. That's what everybody needs. Stand for your rights. "But I'm going after Jesus of Nazareth."
And somebody slipped around and told the--the main superintendent and them, "Cut him off down on the side of the road. He's lost his mind. He's gone crazy. He's gone down there with that bunch of holy-rollers, just as sure as the world. He's gone down."
They wasn't? Sure, they was. Sure, that's what the world called them. That's called them heretics, crazy. So then the first thing you know down the road come the... All the chief executives, all the general council, all of them may now was in one row, and said, "Looky, here, fellow. Where you going?"
Oh, he--he done had something moving in his heart. If you ever get it moving in your heart, you won't care who tries to stop you. That's right. If God begins to tug at that heart, and you begin to move with that tug, there ain't nothing in the world in that's in hell going to hold you down. You're going anyhow.


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