<TITLE>14. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 Intellectual won't help; it's got to come down here to a birth. Join church as much as you want to, good holy churches, that still won't have a thing to do with it. Be baptized face forward, backward, poured, sprinkled, won't... You just go down on a dry sinner and come up a wet one. It don't do one thing to you but pollute you. You're a twofold child more of hell than you was when you started. Most miserable person in the world, is someone trying to impersonate Christianity, miserable. To live for Christ is a joy. It's wings that you fly over it, and your soul begins to thirst like the deer. "Oh, if I can't find it, I'll die." You'll find it. If you thirst after God like that, you'll find Him. "Oh, my soul longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. I long to see Thy power like I seen it in Thy sanctuary." Is your soul thirsting like that tonight?
"Lord Jesus, come to us. Bless us. Do for us like You did for them in the early days. Take the world from me, and let me worship You." Is your soul thirsting like that? Quickly, there'll be a spring break up in the inside of you. You'll live.

L-52 "Brother Branham," you say, "I'm just as good as the rest of them. I don't have to do these things."
You're dying and you don't know it. "As a hart panteth for the water brook, my soul thirst after Thee, O God." You must find water or he died. Ye must find God or you die. "I must see, Lord, or I'll perish."
Oh, how we need Him tonight, in an old fashion God sent revival, where men and women really get right with God. Let us pray:

L-53 Dear God, this little broke up salvation message here tonight, but I hope that it will not return void, which Thou has promised. You said, "It would accomplish that which it was purposed for." And Thou knowest everything, Father, so Thou knowest it was purposed to try to save the church, and the people, not to be different, or anything, but to be--to bring the church back into fellowship with Thee.
We would pray You would grant it tonight, Lord. Let these thirsty souls begin to look and wonder now. Let them search, saying, "O God," till he gets back again. Let the preacher forsake his little petty doctrines, and come back, and bring the church to Christ again, no matter if he's Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, whatever he may be. Let the members go to thirsting for You, Lord, and just got to have You.
 Then there is the Fountain filled with Blood,
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
 Where sinners plunge beneath the flood,
 Lose all their guilty stains.
 The dying thief rejoiced to see
 That Fountain in his day;
 There may I, though vile as he,
 Wash all my sins away.

L-54 May that be the thirst of these young women, and old women, young men, and old men. Grant it, Lord. Create in them a thirst tonight, thirsting after Thee. Let them know that even this worldly stuff, that they're--they're trying to satisfy themselves. "Oh, I belong to church. It's no harm to do this or that." O God, wake them up to know that Satan's doing that, and that thirst that they have for a good time, and so forth, was put in them to worship You, and to have Your blessings, and to enjoy Your fellowship, not the fellowship of the world, but the fellowship of Christ. Grant it, Lord. We ask it in His Name. Amen.


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