<TITLE>12. Par 98-106</TITLE>L-98 Look at Paul out there that night; all hopes was gone, the devil laughing on every glean--gleaning his teeth on every time the waves jumped up and the lightning struck, "I'll sink that apostle out here," little old ship, waterlogged. And days and days, fourteen days and nights, the stars never even shined, and how that little old ship tossed about. Him walking around, dragging a chain behind him, for preaching the Gospel... Hallelujah.
And we can't even let nobody talk about us 'less we have to blow up like a toad-frog eating buckshot. We're always carrying on about something. And then say we're earnestly contending for the faith? The Branham Tabernacle needs a whole lot to be straightened out first; so does the Pentecostals, and the Baptists, and the Nazarenes. That's the reason we're not getting anywhere; we're not honest and sincere. We've ever come face to face with that Thing there that makes us unmovable, always abounding in God, the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
The old caterpillar come in, and cankerworm, and eat it off. "All the days of miracles is passed. You don't have to do this, you don't have to do that."

L-101 If God brought forth His first branch out of that Vine, was a Pentecostal branch, with power, visions, revelations, healings, sanctification, Holy Spirit, the next branch will be the same thing. Certainly will. Every time it... Every time that vine puts forth a branch, it'll be exactly like the one was at the first place. You... As I said last night, talking to a group of brothers; you can't get a grapevine to bear pumpkins, and you can't get a pumpkin vine to bear grapes. That's true. It's whatever the life is in that vine, it produces it.

L-102 And if Christ is in that Vine, and the Life of Christ is in that person, it'll be like Jesus, it'll bear the fruits of Him. It's His Spirit. It can't do nothing else but do it. It's got to produce that Life, 'cause it's the same Life. You just can't produce anything else. It'll act like Him; It'll talk like Him; It'll walk like Him; It'll heal like Him; It'll see visions like Him; It'll produce exactly His Life, perfectly, every time, because It's His Life.
You're just a shell. A man's just like a water pipe; he's not the water; he's just the pipe. Take the water out of him, he'll rust. Well, that's what's the matter today, there's too many of us rusting, that once had an experience. Keep the water flowing, that's what keeps the lifeline going.

L-104 I heard a fellow preaching one time, said there was a sow in the wallow, makes the water all muddy. The best thing, the Bible speaks of that, get the hog out of the wallow. You can get down here into a nice spring, and down here somewhere, where the big spring's pouring out, up there on the mountain, the water is all muddy, you better get the hogs out of it; the water will clear up.
There's a lot of things we got to get out, before the waters will ever come from the Fountain filled with Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood lose all their guilty stains, their indifferences and chattering, and so forth.

L-106 Sixteen ministers, because they believe--they thought that I believed that God kept His church and preserved His church... The Scripture said, "He that heareth My Word," not him that makes out he hears It. That's the one that God has opened his eyes and ears to hear. No man can do it till God opens his eyes and ears. "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has already passed from death unto Life." What's going to happen to him? Did God lie or did He tell the Truth?


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