<TITLE>04. Par 15-20</TITLE>L-15 I used to be a pugilist. I'm getting old and fat and flabby and decrepit now, but I still like to think that I'm back like I used to be.
But there's one thing about God, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. There's no old age with Him. He's eternal. And not only that, but every one that receives Him becomes eternal with God. For there's only one Eternal Life, and God has that alone. And when we receive God's Eternal Life we become eternal with God. Everything that has a beginning has an end. God had no beginning and He has no end. He's eternal forever.

L-16 And as they got there to the Red Sea, God wanted to display His power. So He had the Red Sea to stand still, wall itself up, and stand at attention while the covenant little bunch of holy-rollers marched through the breast of it, to victory. You say, "Holy-rollers, Brother Branham?" Yes, they were holy-rollers. For when they got on the other side and seen what God had did, they acted like a bunch of holy-rollers, one singing in the Spirit, and the other one dancing in the Spirit and beating tambourines. But God had the Red Sea to stand still and watch Him display deliverance to His people.
If His people today would only listen to Him, stand still to see His promise, He'd like to display that same thing to them today, to deliver His people from their bondage of sin and doubt, flusteration, sicknesses. And every redemptive blessing that Jesus died for belongs to the people. It's yours. God got the sea to stand still to watch Him do something.

L-17 Then one day when the people had been promised the promised land, they were fighting a hard battle. And Joshua was at the head of the battle. And the sun was going down. God wanted to show His people Who He was. So He had the sun to stand still while the earth moved, or stopped, or whatever it did, until God displayed His power. He could make the sun stand still. "Stand still, sun. I'm fixing to do something. And I want to display My power to a people who's doing exactly that I promised them to do."
Oh, what a blessed privilege it is, to know that we serve that same God today. He will make everything stand still while He displays His power.

L-18 One day there was a prophet who stood firm on God's eternal blessed promise. He took God at His Word and knowed that God was able to deliver him. And the king threw him into a lions' den, where the lions and tigers and the wild beasts hungered for this very purpose. And when the lions started up to the prophet, God made them stand still all night long while He displayed His power over His prophet. The lions stood still.

L-19 And one day they were going to burn some people up by the intense heat of a furnace. And God wanted to display His power. And He made the fire stand still and at attention while He carried a conversation with His Church, His group that kept His commandments. And there wasn't even a smell of fire on them when they come out. God made the heat and the fire stand still and watch His display.

L-20 One day when it was a storm come down on a sea, and the waves was about to tear a little ship to pieces, there was a lonely Galilean laying in the back of that boat asleep. And, oh, they become flusterated, the believers, all scared and tore up. And God wanted to display His power. He walks up to the helm of the boat and put His foot upon it, and looked up towards the heavens, to the winds, and said, "Peace, be still." And the winds and the waves stood at attention while the Son of God with His little church sailed across the sea. God made the winds and waves stand still. He loves to display His power. He loves to show His--His omnipotence.


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