<TITLE>11. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 The little woman said, "I'm going anyhow." And across the desert, regardless of any of the things that people said, no matter, she pressed on.
Well, finally she arrived at the gate. I can see her take all the camel's weights off of them, and put the gold in the tent, and... Now, she didn't come just to say, "I'll go in. I heard of this evangelist. I'll go in and set down, but if he says one thing against my church doctrine, I'll get right up and go out." (That's the 1960 version of it.) People knowed better in that day. I think that shows poor raising in the first place. That's right. "If it's anything contrary to me--if he says one word, I'll get right up and go out. I won't listen to him no more. No, sir. I won't listen to him."
See, you don't come with the right kind of a motive. You don't come with the right objective of trying to find God. You're just trying to get your knowledge all twisted up. You haven't got a hunger of God yet. You get hungering for God, you'll stay till it's over, like she did.

L-44 She put down her tent and everything, and got ready, and camped out there in the palace courts somewhere, and said, "I'm going to stay here till I see it through. If it's right, it's right. If it's wrong, it's wrong."
So I can imagine seeing her go down in Jerusalem and buy all the Hebrew scrolls there was, to find out just what kind of a nature this God was that they were talking about.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Then you think you have Eternal Life, and They testify of Me." If the things you see did, is not Scriptural, then don't believe it. That's the way she was going to do: take the scrolls and let's see what kind of a God this Jehovah is. And she got all read up. She said, "I know just what He's going to be, now."

L-45 Now, if you'd just do that... If the people of America would just have that much audacity, if they would just absolutely have--give that much consideration to--to God... Did He promise to do this? Is it His will? Did He promise He would? Is It the Holy Spirit? What kind of a nature is It? How does It act? That's what you ought to do. Find out if the Holy Spirit's...
Walk up and say, "I--I believe God Almighty. I believe Jesus is His Son. I take..." and be confirmed... Never was such a thing. You're not confirmed. It's being borned of the Holy Ghost, borned of the Spirit.
See if the thing is right. Search it over, and see if you're supposed to be sprinkled or baptized by immersing. See if you're suppose to join the church or be--or receive the Holy Ghost. (I've been with the Branham family, next Wednesday, fifty-one years. They never did ask me to join the family. I was borned a Branham; that's the reason.) And now, now, you're born in the Church of the living God. It's an experience. You become a new creature. You're a child of God, a son of God.

L-46 And if the Spirit of God dwells in you, it'll bear record with His own Word. If one say, "Well, that was for another day." Remember, you ain't got the Spirit of God in you. If the Bible said, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever," you say, "In a certain way..." Then remember, that's the devil in you. That's right. It's not God.
God say, "Yes, sir, every Word; that's amen. Amen, I wrote It. Amen."
Men of old, when they were moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Bible. How can the Holy Ghost ever deny It? I'm not yelling at you. I've been used to preaching outside, so, I'm--I know you're not hard of hearing, but I--I'm not... I just feel religious, that's all. I just--I just feel real good. It's the Holy Spirit 'cause I know the thing that I'm talking about is the truth. It's God's truth.


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