<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>L-483-63 Esau was hungry. But, you see, if goodness would be counted... If somebody... If we walked up there and stayed around the tent for a--a few days, we'd find out that Esau was... We'd have picked Esau. See? But in his heart he wanted that birthright. He didn't care about anything else; he wanted that birthright. That's all he wanted.
And Esau wanted to be a nice fellow, take care of everything, and do everything just right, and make everything just as... He was a real good legalist; Esau was. He wanted everything just right. And Jacob wanted one thing, and that was the birthright, and that's all he cared about. And Esau... You see what happened to both boys. See? And even out of Jacob come the twelve patriarchs which brought forth, well, the twelve tribes of Israel, out of Jacob. And he called--and God called Jacob His own son. Do you see what I mean?

L-483-65 That Holy Ghost ought to be more important to you than everything else there is in the world: your prestige, your life, your job, your anything that there is. You should not cease until you have It. You must receive It. It must be the most... And you say, "Well, I'm afraid they at--they my work. I'm afraid that my husband, my..." Don't be afraid; let That be first place. Let everything else go. Let That be first. "Well, I expect to get It one of these days, Brother Branham." Not one of these days: now. This is the time. "Let It be first before I--before I do anything else. Let me have It now." Desperate. That would help answer our question. You get--when you get desperate for It, really got to have It or die (See?), then is when you're going to get It.

L-484-66 A little Jew used to be here in town. I don't know whether you knew him or not. He'd been healed of cancer. They give--turned him out. And when he was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, then they really turned him out, put him out in the yard. And then he went and joined the Methodist church. And they found out that he was baptized in the Name of Jesus, and they set him out in zero weather, about ten below, in Ohio; put him a bed out there (Brother Freeman, you ought to remember Brother Vance, oughtn't you?)--put him out--out there, and a pump of water out there, and said, "There's enough water for you to be rebaptized in Jesus' Name, I guess."

L-484-67 However, he was telling me a little story once. He said that when this certain peoples, his wife--they were staying with... And he had gathered all his old stuff up in an old broke up truck and started out of town. And his wife said, "Did you know what? I ought to have got a drink of water before I left that place." Said, "I'm thirsty."
Well, he said, "Honey, there's a hydrant."
Said, "Well, go on till you hit a better place." You see? And he went on a little farther, and he said, "There's another hydrant."
Said, "Well, just go ahead." You see?
But said, "Then when she got out into the country, there was no pump." She was just fighting for a--for a drink of water. And said, "After while, way over in the field was an old country pump, way out in the field, plumb across through a bunch of cattle; and she was afraid of the cattle." But he said, "She said, 'Levi, I just got to have a drink.'" So they--he stopped the car. And said, before he could even get the car hardly stopped, she was out and had that cutting across the fence. She had to have water. And when God becomes that real to you, when you thirst like that, that it's either God or you'll die, you can't stand it any longer, then something's going to happen. It's got--you get to business then with God. That's when you take--it takes place.


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