<TITLE>10. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 And I'd try to get my eyes open, and my eyes would be stuck together. And I'd say, "Mama, I can't see."
And she'd say, "Well, you got matter in them." What was the matter, the draft crossing this way had give us cold in our eyes, and we couldn't see. The... It would swell up during the night and we couldn't see, because it was all mattered over. And mama...
The cure-all around our house was a little cup of coon grease. Mama... Grandpa was a trapper and hunter. I come from a line of hunters. My mother's mother come off the reservations, Cherokee Indian in Tennessee. And when Grandpa would catch these coons, why they would--they would render the grease out of them before they eat them. And then this grease was almost a--a cure-all around our house. Oh, it was good for the croup at night with turpentine on it, or a little coal oil. And then they rubbed it on our chest for a massage when we had acifidity hanging on it also. And it was to keep the cold away. And then if papa's shoes begin to leak in the snow, why they'd put the coon grease on the stove and fix his shoes. It was almost a cure-all. It worked somehow. I don't know.

L-37 But mama'd say to us, "Just a minute till I get the coon grease on the stove." And she'd get a--the old tin cup and set the coon grease on the stove, and get it warm, and come up and massage our eyes with it until our eyes come open. It worked. I don't know how, but we... our eyes got open.
Why, brother, I tell you: the coon grease might've worked all right for that kind of a natural sight, but we've had a great cold spell in the Church. And I'm afraid somebody's got some spiritual coldness in their eyes. It'll take more than coon grease to get it out. That's right.
But God said, "Counsel of Me. I've got some eyesalve for you. I can open that eye door to you. I'll open your eyes."

L-38 Now, what is salve. It's oil, that's hardened. Well, that's what the grease that God has for your eyes is oil. And oil is the Holy Spirit in the Bible.
If God could ever get the Holy Spirit warmed up in the meeting, and can massage some spiritual eyes, and open that door, you'll see Jesus Christ to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. God needs to get your--our eyes opened, the door of our inside eye, the spiritual eye. There's only one thing can open that eye, and that's the Holy Ghost. It gives you spiritual sight. And when you see the signs of God's Presence, the Holy Ghost cries out "Amen" to It. You say, "I see It! I see It!" He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-39 Spiritual sight... The door... "I stand and knock at the door: and if any man will open the door, any man, I'll come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Communing with God, communing with Christ... Get back those creeds and--and so forth away from those doors, and let Jesus came--come in. Why, the things that He's did here this week: make the lame to walk, the blind to see, the--the cancers to be moved, the tumors--the great growths, and discern the spirits. Went out through the audience, proved Hisself to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. There oughtn't to be a sick person in the building tonight. Hallelujah!
"I stand at the door and knock [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.]: if any man would hear my voice and will open and let me in, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." We'll talk it over. What a agreement with God, to talk it over.


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