<TITLE>14. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 Now, you standing here, each one of you. I want you with solemnly, with all your heart to know that you've made this consecration. Now, don't just come down the aisle just because it's... just... you come just because, "Well, I--I don't want to go to hell." Of course you don't. "But I come, Jesus, because that something touched me in my heart. I see what You did for me, and I haven't got that what You require. And I'm coming to receive it; I want it." Why do you receive a substitute. Why take a church membership, or--or some little excitement, or...
Now, I believe in excitement, and shouting, and speaking in tongues, and--and Divine healing. I believe all those things. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about God, first. You can have that and not have God. Paul said you could. Jesus said many will come and saying they had it, confessing they'd it. But they didn't have this. See? That's where we're lacking.

L-49 "I need love, Lord. I need Your Spirit in my heart to make me that kind of a person--tender, kind, gentle, humble, forgiving--that's what I want. And Lord, I'm bowing my head right before You now to say this, 'Lord, change my life right now. I open myself up,' and say, "Now, Lord, I'm nothing, but You change me."' It's got to be You. My emotions has brought me to this altar. But now it takes Your Spirit to change me. Come, do it, Lord. Come place in me that glorious longing." That's what it is.
I said to a man the other day, "Oh, I--I believe Jesus will come most any time."
He said, "Don't talk about that, Brother Branham. You weary me."
I said, "Weary you?"
Said, "Sure, I'm making more money now than I ever in my life. My business is better."
I said, "Then, brother, you claim you're Christian, and would fear the coming of the Lord?" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"It's the greatest moment I could think of, the coming of the Lord. That's the greatest thing that I can think of." That's why I'm here how now, is because I believe He's a coming. The most... That's the coronation of my days. That's right. When I can see Him. "When all those that love His appearing," Paul said, there was laid up a crown of righteousness." All that love His appearing...
"Come, Lord Jesus. Yes, Lord, come now. This is the hour, if it so please Thee, Lord." That's the way to feel about it. And loving me, dying for me, buried for me; rising He justified freely forever. "Now, I'm looking for You to come, Lord. And I want to have the same kind of a Spirit in me that You had in You. I want that kind of a Spirit; that if my enemy's spit could be hanging from my face, and with all my heart I could say, 'I forgive you for it.' And I could forgive others as Christ... as God, for Christ's sake, forgave us."

L-50 All right, let us bow our head now in prayer. Billy, if you don't mind, I wish you would come here with me. I want you to take the after-service, one of you, if you will.
Now, as you bow your heads, I want you to confess to God that you've been wrong, and you want God to forgive you now, and to place in you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Here me people, just as sure as I'm standing here, He wants to do it.
Now, look. How'd you come? "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Why'd you get up and come? Because you knowed there was something wrong. Now, you're at the altar where all wrongs are rightened, because there's a--a sacrifice laying on the altar for you. What was it? A bleeding sacrifice, the Son of God that cries, "Father, forgive them. They didn't mean to do that."


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