<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 That's why we're having this Christian Business Men's fellowship in the morning, where businessmen can worship together on one common ground, believing that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's why we got churches around over this city, and around over the world, that's preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, because we have fellowship together. We set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, the Holy Ghost coming upon us, and overshadowing us, empowering us with gifts, and signs, and wonders, and miracles. Why, it's the closest thing to heaven there is on the earth.

L-28 There she took out for this fellowship; the heart calls for it. Up over the hills--I can see her going--her little cheeks a blushing and them little eyes sparkling, as she thought, "I'll keep this a secret from Joseph. I just can't wait; I've got to go."
And up in the hills she went, on up into Judaea, up at the house of her cousin. And Mary, before she got to the house... Elisabeth, her cousin, had hid herself, because she was very weary. Because little John in the wombs of his mother, was six months and no life had showed yet. Now, that's altogether un--unnatural. It isn't just exactly the regular routine. Life appears in three or four months, and this is six months. And she was a little weary about it.

L-29 I can see her setting back in a room, and there she set praying something like this, "God, I've waited all these years, and I believed in my heart that something was about to happen. There sets my husband out there, dumb. And he can't speak, and he keeps writing on a slate, and saying, 'I saw an Angel; I saw an Angel. An Angel spoke to me at the right hand of the altar; something great's going to happen.'"
And all of a sudden, she seen that she was to be mother. But she... The baby grew, but had no life, no muscles a moving at all: six months, altogether subnormal. And she looked out the window, and she saw Mary coming, her teeth shining like pearls, and her eyes just--just a glistening with joy.
And she said, "I ought to know that child."
And she had her robe wrapped around her, running as hard as she could. Zacharias stood in the yard; he said, "Oh, hail. I know who you are. I... You're Anna's daughter; you're Anna's daughter."
"Yes, that's who I am."
And Elisabeth runs out; she had been setting in there making little booties for the baby. Somehow or another, she believed way down in her heart that God wouldn't let her down. No matter...

L-30 Maybe you be setting sick, maybe you've tried to serve God, and you're setting sick tonight. But way down in your heart, something's getting ready. Oh, I wonder if the man here in the wheelchair, if he's ready, getting, thinking down in his heart, "This is the night; I'll never have to use this no more."
Wonder if this lady setting here, and the one behind her, is thinking the same thing? Like others, another lady setting back there, are you remembering that all things work together for the good to them that love God? God's trying to do something for you.
And she laid the little booties down, and she run out in the yard. And she grabbed Mary around the neck, and begin to hug her and kiss her. You know, people felt for one another then different then they do now. You know, there's not much feeling amongst people no more, no fellowship.

L-31 It hasn't been too long ago, I was downtown with my wife. And there's a lady said, "Hello, Sister Branham." And I never heard her say a word.
I said, "Honey, that lady spoke to you."
She said, "I spoke to her."
Well, I said, "I'm sure she didn't hear you, 'cause I didn't, and I'm setting closer than she was."
"Oh," she said. "I--I smiled at her."
"Oh," I said, "ridiculous, honey. A little old silly grin don't take the place of 'Hello there, how you doin'?'" That'll never take the place. That's right.
People's got so they try to even substitute something else for a good old handshake.


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