<TITLE>09. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31 Along towards daylight, the birds wouldn't even holler; they were all starved and gone. Day begin to break across the room. I can see her setting in an old rocking chair, wringing her hands, the tears running down her cheeks as she looked. The little boy had spent a restless night: "Mama, can't you just find one little piece of bread? Papa was a good man. God taken him. What's the matter, mama?"
But the woman stood. She knew she'd met the requirements of God. She had one little handful of meal. She went in and took this little handful of meal out into the--the pan, and poured the oil into it, begin to mix it up.

L-32 Now, the meal was Christ. Christ is the meal offering. Any of you clergyman know that. When the meal was ground for the--for the meal offering, it had to be ground with a certain burr; that every little burr had to grind the meal just exactly the same. Why? Because Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was then, He is tonight. What He is tonight, He will always be. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, the oil represents the Spirit. And the... We know that by the Scriptures. That's the reason we anoint by oil.

L-33 When Elijah, one time at the school of prophets, had come up there, and he sent some of them men out from the school, and they didn't know the difference between wild gourds and peas--some prophets. But he picked a lap full of wild gourds and throwed them into the pot. And one of them screamed out, "There's death in the pot."
And Elijah said, "Don't get excited." He went and got a handful of meal, and throwed it into the pot, and said, "Eat." Why? When Christ is put in death, life comes in the stead of death.
Don't care how far you've gone, how low you're sunk, how immoral you are, how degraded you are, how sinful you are, when Christ comes into the heart, death fades away, and life comes into the same place. From death in the pot came life in the pot.
If the cancer's eat you up, if tubercular, the doctor has turned you down, nothing else can be done, let a handful of Christ come into you. Let Jesus, the same yesterday--not a handful of religion now--a handful of Christ, the Holy Ghost, come into your heart with genuine faith, and death will flee out; and Life will take its place. The meal offering...

L-34 And the oil is the Spirit. Now, what is that? Christ is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God; and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."
And the Spirit... Jesus told the woman at the well, said, "The time is coming when God seeks people that'll worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." That's the Word with the Spirit. Some people has the Word, others has the Spirit. But when you get Spirit and Truth together, something's got to happen.

L-35 And it was just a little bit, just a little bit, but it was all she needed. God, let this sink deep in the people's heart. You may be down to your last handful. I've heard people say, "I don't have very much faith, Brother Branham." But what you've got, if it's real faith, mix it with God's Word. Look what it'll do. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, I've been to every doctor, been to the clinic. Oh, I've joined church for my sins, and I've done this." I can't help what all you've done, what little faith you... You got enough faith to be out here tonight, then mix it with the Word; get ready.


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