<TITLE>05. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 I see Pilate open up the letter with his head back, and as I begin to watch his eyes under his great brow, the furrows, and the long eye lashes, and eye brows, his eyes goes to a cold stare. As he reads this letter, he looks around to Jesus, and he looks back; his face becomes white; his lips doesn't seem to have any blood; his knees begin to knock together. What's so important about that letter from his pagan wife? Let's look over his shoulder and read and see what it says: "My dear husband, don't you have anything to do with that just Man, for this day I've suffered many things in a dream because of Him." That's what he would say happened.

L-21 What did he do? Instead of releasing Him as he had power, instead of embracing him, and saying. "Yes, Jesus, I've been wrong; I've misjudged You. But this morning I receive You as my Saviour; as the Son of the living God, I bow before You."
But instead of that he tried to justify himself like many sinners of this world today. "I just won't go to the meeting."
"Let's bring me a pan of clean water." And he washed his hands of Him, said, "I just won't accept Him, but I just won't have anything else to do with it."
Did that clean his hands? No. And neither will it clean your hands. It's before you. You've got to make a choice. God compels you to make a choice. You can't leave that door tonight without some sort of a choice. It's impossible.

L-22 As the old legend says, Pilate many years later went up in the northern countries, in the mountains. He was finally dethroned, and he wearied, and he walked, and finally committed suicide by plunging himself into a great hole of water and drowning. And it's said, as a legend, that every year, just about the time that he washed his hands of the Lord Jesus, and accepted his great dignity, in the stead of humbling himself to the Lord... The legend says that that blue water bubbles up for hours to showing that blue clean water won't wash the Blood of Jesus Christ off of the hands of any person.

L-23 Neither will the name on a church book, neither will any thing else ever wash the Blood of Jesus Christ off of a man or woman's hands who's heard the Gospel. You've got to make your decision. There's no other way for you to do. You either accept Him or you deny Him. He is on your hand, and there's nothing you can do, only make your decision.
You say, "Brother Branham, you've been talking to His enemy. Now, what about some of His friends?" That's what His enemies had to say. Let's see some of His friends. Let's call the Hebrew children to the platform tonight.
Oh, you beloved friends of God, what think ye of Christ? You lived many hundreds years before He ever was manifested in the flesh. I can hear Shadrach say, "I'll speak for the three of us." Amen. We are not divided. All one doctrine we, one in hope and charity. "I'll speak for the rest."

L-24 "It was on a gloomy morning when we were cast into a big pit of fire of a furnace het seven times hotter than it ever was het. And we wondered what was taking place. We'd never felt any fire on us, neither did we feel or hear any hair singeing, but it seemed to be very comfortable down there. And when we turned to look, there stood One that looked like to me, the Son of God. That's what we think of Him."
Ezekiel, the prophet that we spoke of today, "What think ye of Christ, Ezekiel? Whose Son is He?"
"One day," said Ezekiel, "while the Spirit of God was upon me. I looked up into the heavens; I saw Him coming, and the clouds was like dust under His feet. I saw a wheel in the middle of the wheel turning way up in the middle of the air."


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