<TITLE>19. Par 683-692</TITLE>L-683   Next day, I was squirrel hunting, over in the side of a mountain. I heard some man setting there talking, old saw buzzing. And I slipped down. I been squirrel hunting. They was talking about me, setting there, chewing tobacco and spitting. The leaves flying, like that. And they were talking about, now, about the meeting the night before. One of them said, "I seen that baby. I went by there, this morning. It isn't jerking, yet this morning." See? Said, "That was real." And he was spitting.

L-684 And they had rifles leaning against the tree, so I thought I'd better make myself known. You know, they had feuds down there, too. So, I walked up. I said, "Good morning, brethren."

L-685 That great big fellow, seemed to be speaking, he had a chew of tobacco in his mouth, like that, way out on the side like that, and big, long neck. And he had a great big old hat on, pulled down over his face. He looked around and seen me. He reached up and got that hat, jerked it off, went... [Brother Branham swallows--Ed.] Swallowed that chewing tobacco, said, "Good morning, parson." See? Yes, sir. Respect. And that's right. How he ever lived over it, I don't know, but he did.

L-686   So, the next night, coming back, there was a man there who wanted to argue with me a little bit. He went to a church that didn't believe in Divine healing. So, this was a Methodist church, White Hill, Kentucky. So he--he went to... He was standing outside. He had a lantern in his hand. And he said, "I want to say something, preacher. I just can't accept That, 'cause I can't see It."

L-687 I said, "You can't see It?"

L-688 He said, "No." Said, "I'm a sick man, myself. But," said, "I just can't see It."
I said, "Where do you live?"
He said, "Back over on Big Renox."
I said, "Well, how you going to get home?"
He said, "Well, I'm going to walk home."
I said, "Can you see your home?"
He said, "No, sir."
I said, "Awful dark tonight, it's cloudy."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "How you going home?"
He said, "By this lantern."
I said, "The lantern doesn't show light all the way to the house." I said, "How do you go?"
He said, "Oh, I walk by the lantern."

L-689 I said, "That's it. You've got the light of the lantern now, and every time you step this way, the light will keep showing on ahead of you. If you just keep walking, the light will keep going with you."

L-690   And you do that this morning, you want Christ, the great High Priest, the Intercessor for your sickness, or your diseases, or your soul. You might not understand It. We don't. But we're commanded to "Walk in the Light as He is in the Light." You make one step in the Light. And when you got the Light with you, the Light will shine unto the perfect day. It'll keep the path before you.
And we'll walk up this grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I'd rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.
Ever hear that old song?
There's nothing like an old-time Christian,
Christian love to show;
We're walking in the grand old highway,
And telling everywhere we go,
I'd rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.

L-691   I just love it. All right. Now we're going to pray for the sick. We're not... We don't claim that we can heal the sick. If we did, we'd be telling something wrong. Every sick person in here is already healed. That's what the Scripture said. "By His stripes we were healed." Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-692 Every sinner that's in here, perhaps there'd be one, you've been saved since Jesus died. But don't you never die here where your opportunity was placed before you, to go into His Presence then to try to accept It. It's made for now. Right now you must accept It. If you go beyond the Blood, then you're nothing but... You're already judged, because you're judged by the way that you treated the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. See? You, you judge yourself there.


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