<TITLE>13. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 One hope that we have, when... I--I'm closing, saying this: one hope we have. While they had Samson bound, there was a new shock growed out. I'm praying God, that He'll grow out of here, somewhere, a new shock that'll shake the Philistines like they've never been shook before. I believe God will have it. If He won't do it through the churches, He'll take a Christian business man. He'll do something another. But there'll be a shock of power, a secret power of the Holy Ghost growed out again, just as certain as anything and it'll do the job in the last days. God grant that we're all numbered with that shock when it comes out. Let us pray.

L-33 Before praying, with your heads bowed, I would like to ask you this question as your brother, one who loves you, only says these things, not to come and pat you, but to be sure that you're right with God. How many would like to have a--the experience that they once had, a renewing in the Holy Spirit, would say, "Brother Branham, pray for me right now, that God will renew my strength"? God bless you. Look at your hands, everywhere. "God, renew my strength." Oh, how wonderful. "Take me back to Calvary. Let me forsake all the things of this world. Let me forsake all and cleave to Thee."
"He that will not forsake all and take up his cross daily... It's a sacrificial walk. It's a walk that you don't pattern after the world. Christ is your Example. Die daily and walk after Jesus. Oh, may He grant to you, my precious friend.

L-34 Oh... When you bow your head now, keep on your mind what you want. Say, "God, take me back. I don't care what it costs. I don't care what it is. I don't want to know more flirt with the world. I--I want to be real." If the church would only go on with God as it should go, there would not be any cripples and afflictions around us. We got to confess our sins. We got to... "Our sins," you say, "well, I don't do nothing wrong. I--I don't drink. I..." It's not that; it's neglection, sometimes. It's not moving up with God. It's not doings a--in the Holy Spirit. It's not--it's not watering that what God has given you. You're grieving It away.
A woman come to me last night and she said to me; she said, "Brother Branham, I--I am so sick," she said, "I--I have no power no more with prayer. I--my--the life of prayer is gone from me," she said, "and I'm getting older, and I--I don't want to go like this." See? Grieve the Spirit away from you. Let Him come to you just now.

L-35 Lord Jesus, bringing this group of people to You, yet harsh, Lord, with the Word, cuts like a two edged sword, coming and going. But, Lord, it's those things that makes us what we are. It's the Holy Spirit that circumcises, cuts away all the flesh of the world, and gives us new life. It's--it's in this birth, Lord, like a seed that's laying on the ground. Until that seed is dead and rotten... And as it rots, then new life comes out. Until our intellectual conception of Christ becomes so dead till it's rotten, then new life will be born. New life can only come when death is. Death and life are associated together.
And, Father, we realize that when the new grain, the yellow grain that goes into the ground is hard and calloused and indifferent. When it dies and it's rot, then a little green blade comes out. It's nothing like what goes down. But when it comes up, it's flexible. The wind blows it, and it's soft. It's a new life; it's a different color. And so is a calloused church member who falls beneath the cross, and he rots to his own intellectual thinking. But when new life comes out of that condition, then he's altogether different when he comes out. He's alive; he's growing; he's flexible to the Word, and to the Spirit. When the Spirit blows like a wind upon him, he moves and sways to the Spirit, where he did lay stiff and starchy.


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