<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>59-0403, Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming, Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, CA, 68 min
L-1 Sister McPherson made her way through that little door to come out here on the platform, and her memory still live around here, I'm sure.
I taken a little vacation, about three days and went down to Florida fishing. I'm trying to rest up my voice a little bit. So I had quite an experience down there. I thought maybe I might just kinda pass it on to you tonight. We'd been fishing in--back in the Okeechobee swamps, and I'd caught a nice string of fish.
And there was one of the Brothers that was with me that--Brother Evans from Tifton, Georgia. He had a brother that lived down there, and the--near the swamp, and he fished in the swamp all the time. And he'd been after me some time to go down. So recently I was at Brother Theo Jones' place. And that morning I was to have breakfast with--with Brother Evans.

L-2 While I was getting ready to leave the room, I saw vision of Brother Evans trying to hide a sack of fish from the game warden. So I--I said, "Brother Evans, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but where you fish at is kinda like bayous isn't it?"
He said, "That's right."
I said, "You, and two of your boys, and another fellow was down there just recently, and you had sack full of fish, and you was afraid that the game warden was going to catch you, and you hid them fish five times 'fore you got out of there."
And he said, "That's right, exactly."
So his brother had been fishing a week or two before that, and--or a month or two (pardon me), and he got bit by a ground rattler. That's a little different rattler from the diamondback you have here, but he's a very poison. I guess the boy's body's swollen twice its size, and they had him under medical treatment. He was a sinner, not a Christian. So he had an awful time. He come back out, and his leg's in cast from where the snake had... They thought they might have to amputate that leg it was so bad.

L-3 Then while we was out there, his Christian brother was fishing along by the side of me. And I had a big fish on the line and just a small pole. And I walked him up-and-down the bayou trying to land him. And when I got him wore out and up to the edge of the weeds, why, Mr. Evans said, "Just a moment, Brother Branham." And he pulled off his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs, said, "I will catch it for you." And he run out.
And as he started out, a big old rusty rattler grabbed him. And he let out a scream and run back to the bank and said it felt like that the bone in his leg had turned to ice, it was aching so hard. Well, if anyone knows what a snakebite is, you get sick right away.

L-4 So I thought, "Well, if I had to pack him those two miles, he much larger man than I, how was I going to get him out of that swamp." And it just come to me, then this Scripture, "And they shall tread on the heads of serpents and scorpions." And I said, "Just a moment, Brother Evans, I..." And put my hand over on the place where the two fangs had went in and the little blood oozing out of the holes where the rattler had bit him, I said, "Heavenly Father, Your Word... In Your Word, it says that they shall tread on the heads of serpents and it shall not harm them."
I no more than said that till... He must have been standing by somewhere. And He heard the Word quoted, and the--all the pains left immediately. We fished the rest of the day, went in that night, and his brother said, "You get to the hospital just as quick as you can." Said, "Because, oh, it might break loose any time."
And his Christian brother said, "If God has cared for me this far, He will take me the rest of the way through." And he's never had any ill feelings of it yet.
The Lord Jesus did that. It pays to be a Christian. The sinner was bitten and almost died. The Christian was bitten and didn't not even have to have medical attention. Goes to show, that every Word in God's Book is true, every Word, every chapter, every verse, every line is the truth.


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