<TITLE>10. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 If you're guilty and you've sinned and you've trespassed against God's commandments, and you don't know what to do about it, the Bible said, "Hear ye Him." For He took all of our iniquity; He took all of our trespasses away. "Hear ye Him."
What we need tonight is not so much law, and not so much of the--these denominations, and so many barriers. What we need is the love of God. What we need tonight is men and women who will take a bold stand from the depths of their heart and serve the Lord Jesus. The world's looking today not for a new denomination. If I'd have started ten years ago when I was in here, I'd have probably been the father over a great denomination. Sure it would've been. When men came to my house and said, "Brother Branham, oh, you got it in your hand; do this." No. There was Somebody spoke to me above, and I heard Him. I don't want to start denominations; we got enough. What I want to do is to be a servant of Him, love Him and obey Him, and serve Him well.

L-38 The Bible said you're the salt of the earth. Today you can call yourself a Presbyterian; that don't mean a thing in the Presence of God. You can call yourself a Pentecostal; that doesn't mean a thing in the Presence of God. What He wants to see is a man or a woman that's a Christian in their heart. That's what the world wants to see. The world wants to see men and women who are just exactly what they're supposed to be, what you profess to be. If I wasn't for Christ tonight, I'd be standing here against Him. But I know He's real, and I love Him, and that's why I'm here for Him.
No doubt someday will seal my testimony with my blood, but I'm be happy at that day, for I know that He's the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that He cannot fail. I know He's love.

L-39 Here sometime ago when I'd lost my family and everything, someone met me and said, "Brother Branham, did you keep your religion during that time?"
I said, "No, brother, it kept me."
Said, "What do you think of Christ now? There's your wife and your baby laying yonder in that grave molding. There's your daddy and your brother laying yonder, all in a few days apart. What do you think about Him now?"
I said, "He's more than life to me. I love Him with all that's within me."

L-40 Hardest hour I ever struck in my life, just give you a personal testimony. When I went into the room of my dying baby, there I'd been a Gospel preacher for about six years; I stood there by my baby. They wouldn't let me go in, didn't want me to go in, but I slipped in. It was down in the basement in an isolated ward. Flies had got in its little eyes, and I shooed the flies out, and put a little net like over it. I looked at the little thing, and I said, "Sharon, do you know your daddy?" And she'd suffered so hard till her little baby blue eyes had crossed. My heart was gripped. Her mother was laying in the morgue the night before. I got down on my knees, and I said, "Heavenly Father, what have I done to deserve this? Will You spare my baby? O blessed Lord, please do." And look like come a black sheet unfolding like that, just shut her off from my view. He absolutely refused to hear my prayer. I stood up and looked at her like that; I knew she was gone.

L-41 Satan come to me, and he said, "Will you serve Him now? There's your wife; your father's just left; your brother was killed up there on the road; there's your wife in the morgue. Oh, yes, you're a preacher. He ought to be kind to you, shouldn't He? Will you serve Him?" That was the most cruelest temptation I ever had, for there was my baby and what had I done? Nothing as I knowed of. I said, "Reveal it to me God, I'll make it right."


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