<TITLE>03. Par 11-15</TITLE>L-11 Now, our subject this afternoon, we would like to speak on... I preached on this before at a place in Louisiana, where a revelation that I claim was given to me. And now, I want to take it from another angle, if I can, for this afternoon.
But one day while eating lunch with Brother Moore at the Big Chain restaurant in Shreveport, Louisiana, while we were there this summer, I begin to notice the faces that sometimes... Mr. Moore is one of the managers. And I'd go to visit him, which I'm an associate pastor of the temple there.
And I would notice that many faces would be missing and I'd ask about them. "Well, I tell you, Brother Branham, they just drifted away." So I begin to wonder, why would they drift away? What causes people to drift away? And seemingly, as far as we could see and know, very fine people, very nice, kind, Christian type of people.

L-12 I would not want to say that they were not Christians. We have no way to judge that. And God is the sole Judge of who is Christian and who's not. And we can only judge ourselves as we weigh ourself in God's bowels (That is His Word.) and see how our life compares with what His requirements is, and our desires towards that, our attitude towards what He has required us to do. So noticing that, this came on my mind: Why did the people who had the Holy Spirit in their heart would drift away from God?
Now, we first we have to think of this that every--every word of God is true. We cannot say that God's Word is not true.

L-13 And in Saint Ja--John, the 5th chapter and the 24th verse, Jesus said, "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come into the judgment, but hath passed from death unto Life." See? Now, that's His own Word.
And I look around, and I see our good brother and friend, God's servant, Billy Graham, has crossed the nation, and thousands here converted, he said, and thousands here converted, and thousands over here converted. And talking with him myself, he said there wasn't ten percent of them held out.

L-14 So then, I go back, and I talk to Oral Roberts, our good friend. And he goes from place to place, and so many thousands and thousands converted. And I come to find out, just about the same thing Oral says. There's not very many that holds out.
Then I talk to other evangelists, and noticing it in my own meetings. And here he--the return. Just a few moments ago, the pastor walked behind the stage and was talking to me while I were reading some Scripture. And we were talking, and my son and one of the tape boys were speaking about, said it's a lovely little auditorium here, seating about two thousand or something like that. And we were comparing it with meetings.
And I said, "I was just thinking, in Germany we averaged ten thousand converts each night." So we was there five nights and they recorded fifty thousand that come to Christ in five nights. 'Course we had thousands to draw from.

L-15 And Durban, South Africa, they registered thirty thousand in one altar call. See? But now, you go back and find out how many of them are still holding today. Now, that's where we wonder. See? What takes place? That's up to God. We're fisherman. We throw the net into the river, and we pull, and what comes out, we hand it to God. God knows what they are. See, that's just our business.
If it was a crawfish, it'll still be a crawfish. The Gospel net just catches it. If it was a--a terrapin, it'll be a terrapin on a... It's what the nature of it is. But God is to do that judging. We don't know that. God does that.


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