<TITLE>18. Par 68-72</TITLE>L-68 Then what is these other things? Is attributes, apples that fall off the tree. See? But don't get the apple 'fore the tree. Get the tree and it'll bear the apples. You can have all the signs and fantastics you want to pick up under the tree and still not have the tree. The tree's got the life.
You see, you're just taking something that fell off the tree. Get the tree first, and it'll bear itself. But if your tree isn't yielding these things, then there's something wrong. That's right. That's what you want.
My, look standing here. Are the rest of you satisfied you made the right decision? Say, "Brother Branham, what difference does it make?" Well, it's just a difference between death and Life.

L-69 "You mean that if I walk up there and stand there? What if I don't get nothing?" Well, brother, what can you lose by proving to God that you want to make a effort to get it? How you ever going to get it setting there like that? Get a move. Get up. Raise up and walk up. Confess before the people. Look at these people here, members of your churches. And they're witnessing before God, and before you, that they know their life is short of those things. They might have spoke with tongues; they might have prophesied; they might have preached; they might've done all these things; but yet they know that something in there is just not there, and they're willing to confess it.
You mean the God of heaven won't look down and honor that? He's got to. "He that will come to Me, I will in no wise turn him out." I believe His blessed Word. And I believe that every sincere heart setting here beating this life, will get something from this prayer now. I believe it.

L-70 Just think what we--what we Pentecostal churches got into. Let's take the "Psalm of Life" a minute. Be not like dumb driven cattle, have to be herded into a pen or something another. Be a hero; stand out there.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make out lives sublime,
With partings, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing over life's solemn main,
For a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

L-71 Oh, my blessed friend of Christ, see your confession. Now, don't stand here thinking your not going to get something when the whole skies is full of His blessings. You might not be all worked up over it. Maybe you've had a lot of that already. It ain't working up over. It isn't getting worked up and emotional. It's coming reverently before God. It's coming there and saying, "God, now I believe. And You put in me that which operates my life."
How many of you standing here, believe it? Let's see your hands. You're already making your confession to God. You're rising up and standing here, proves that you're sincere in it, proves that you are.

L-72 Now, I want to pray for you first. And then I want you to pray for yourself. But first, I want you to settle down, everybody now. If you're all feel that you're absolutely justified in doing what you're doing, if you're sure that you're justified, there's not a spot on you nowhere, but your life is ticking just according to God's Holy Spirit, making you live the life of this Bible... If you're satisfied, remember this day will come into judgment.
Brother, I tell you, I'd rather walk out in the face of my pastor, church, and everything and make it right now than to try to do it then, 'cause you--you got mercy now; you haven't then. You're in judgment then. All right.
[Several prophecies are given--Ed.] Oh, my. May the Lord... [More messages are given--Ed.] Now, everyone...


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