<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 After while he punched him on the shoulder. And he said, "Parson?"
Said, "Yes, Gabe, what do you want?"
Said, "Sunday morning I'm finding myself at the mourner's bench. I take my position in the church, there to live the rest of my days."
The parson said, "Good, Gabe. But what caused the sudden change? Why, when we've talked to you, and godly, saintly people has prayed with you and persuaded you, and you've turned your heart away."
He said, "Boss, you know I know that I'm a poor shot. I couldn't hit nothing." And said, "Look at the game I got. He must love me or He wouldn't have give it to me." There you are. What was it? His eyes just come open. He realized Who give him that game, where it come from.
"The ox knows its stall. The mule knows the master's crib, but My people know not," said the Lord. Certainly they don't know where these good things come from. If your eyes were just open and you could see...

L-41 Sometime ago a man was on his road to the seaside. He was going over there for a rest. He wanted to refresh himself, because that he loved to--thought he would like to hear the sea gulls as they flew over the water and skipped down by the great white-tip waves as they roared and bursted in the air. And he wanted to smell the salt water.
He said, "It'll be such a rest to live by the seashore for a while. I just want to rest. I want to live by the seashore to see all the things the sea has to offer: the blue sky as it reflects from the sky to the water; how that the foam of the salt water will boil up in great waves, strike, and roll." And he said, "If I can stand and look at that, and hear the scream of the gull..."
And on his road down to the seashore, he met a man coming. And he was an old salt, an old sailor from the sea. He said, "Where goest thou?"
He said, "I go down to the seashore to enjoy the goodness of the sea."
And the old salt said, "I don't see nothing strange about it. The waters are just waters. The sky is just the sky. The gull is just another bird." You see, he had seen it so much until it become common to him. It wasn't thrilling to him.

L-42 And that's what's the matter with you people. You've seen the goodness, and the miracles, and Divine things of God moving and working, until it becomes common to you. You don't notice it no more.
In the meetings I've noticed people where the Lord, under His discernment, will speak right out in the audience just as He did when He walked in Galilee, just as promised that He said He would do, and people... The first time they say, "Oh, did it ever... Oh, that's got to be the Lord." And the next time it's, "Well, become..." And after while, "Well, it's just another thing."
It's common. It's passed over. You don't notice it. Your eyes of understanding, your heart becomes closed to it. The thrill, the blessedness of knowing the risen Lord Jesus stand in our midst should send every soul to heights beyond anything in this world could thrill. It should do something to you.
It should shake your faith till you'd open up every door of faith, and everything else, and say, "Lord Jesus, take full possession of me now. Take me into Your caring. Here, come into my heart. Take my selfishness away. Take my misunderstandings away. Take my doubts away. Open my eyes, Lord, and let me see, and take all of me and be my Lord." Till the church does that, we are walking in blindness. Jesus is knocking [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] at the door, and we're leaving Him outside.


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