<TITLE>10. Par 82-91</TITLE>L-82 How that the--Paul the apostle, that great apostle who had been through his time of trouble when he witnessed the death of Stephen; and seen his little face look towards heaven, and the rocks beating him in the face, and he looked up, and he said, "I see the heavens open. I see Jesus standing on the right hand of God." He said, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." And Paul holding the coats, that had put him for weeks after weeks upon the ash heap, walking back and forth, till His mind had been polluted, until he was on his road down to Damascus to try to fight a way out, like a man going to a whiskey bottle to try to drown his sorrow.
He was in the midst of that, when there come a Voice from heaven, and a great shining Light said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" He saw Him. He recognized Him, that He was the resurrected Jesus, the One that he had witnessed of dying, was raised again.

L-84 Oh, I can remember my own life on the road down to destruction, when I heard a sweet Voice, "I am Jesus. I was once dead; I'm alive forevermore. Because I live, you can live also." Since that time, putting my hand in His, I've trusted Him through the dark places. When the times come where I can't see which way I'm going, I still trust Him.
Every Christian believer has to be pushed into those trials. Every Christian believer has to be put on the ash heap, so that he can come forth with an experience, "I know my Redeemer liveth."

L-86 We don't come here this morning just to set and talk about some historical affair, which is all true, but we come here with a testimony this morning: "I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I know it beyond any shadow of doubt. I know that He raised from the dead, and He lives within me today. He is mine and I am His. I am a joint heir with Him in the Kingdom of God.
Easter, Easter brings a great thing, a resurrection, a new hope. Have you got it this morning? Is it in your heart? Do you know that your Redeemer liveth, and He makes all things work together?

L-88 You say, "Brother Branham, I'm setting here, waiting for the prayer line."
God's working that just exactly for the good. Why was that precious little boy, the other day, stricken blind when he was born? That God might get glory and turn a city upside down. Sure, God knows what He's a-doing. God knows. And He puts us on the ash heap in order to show us His glory.
So this morning I say this, friends. After thirty-one years of ministry, after thirty-one years of toils of the field, I want to make my testimony to this: I have seen disappointments. I've seen the time I've asked for things, and cried for things, and begged for things, and failed to get them. But if I'll just wait patiently upon God, then I know that it works just exactly right, comes out just exactly right, does just exactly the right things.

L-91 When I lost my baby, and my little Sharon, I... That was one thing that stumbled me. I said, "How can that be for the good? How can it be for the good?" And months later, when I seen her standing there in all the beauty of a young girl, speaking to me, standing by the side of that old wagon broken down there. I knowed if she would've lived, she might've turned out wrong. God had to take her while she was tender and sweet. I know I'll see her again. I know I shall see her; I know it beyond any shadow of doubt.
I think of my wife of twenty-two years old, taken, just merely a girl, a little mother there. When the papers give a headline here, "Young mother of reverend just died," oh, how my heart bled. I didn't know what to do. But today I know it was all working for my good. I know the life had to be ground, and twisted, and squeezed to get what in it was, out. There was too much Branham in there had to be squeezed out before God could make Hisself known.


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