<TITLE>27. Par 82-86</TITLE>L-82 Here come a aged couple holding one another's arms. How sweet that is to know, even at this age, they're coming now to be reconciled to God. Listen, look at me! If this couple here that's coming in deep sincerity, I say this in the Name of the Lord Jesus: If they're coming in great sincerity, I'll meet them in another land when they are a young couple again and shake their hand.
Oh, you pass over it; it's so simple. God didn't make it complicated, a whole lot of rules you have to learn. You know what we're trying to do?
Somebody say, "What am--must I do to be saved?"
You say, "You have to quit smoking; you have to quit drinking." We're tell them what they have to quit doing.
Paul told him what he must do: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." That's all. Not what you have to quit doing; what you must do to be saved. Believe first; these other things take care of themselves. You believe first.

L-83 Will you come, sinner? I'm just going to wait a moment longer. 'Cause before I rose from that bed, I shook my wife. She's setting right there now; she was still asleep, and I shook her.
I said, "Honey?"
She said, "What?"
I said, "Something's happened." And I told her.
I got out on the bed. There's a picture of Jesus just above my bed. Over on this side is praying hands that was carved for me in Germany, souvenirs. On the other is a little old shack I used to live in; some German artist painted on canvas. Right back on this other side is the picture of the Angel of the Lord standing over... You've got the picture of It, many of you.
I looked up. I said, "Before God, before Christ, before the heavenly host, I promise you, God, to persuade and beg and per--and even compel the people to come. For even if I have to get them a little angry with me now..."

L-84 How that ninety year old woman, in the beauty of a young woman standing there looking at me, said, "Oh, my precious brother."
And that one that was talking to me said, "The reason she's saying that; she was past ninety when you led her to Jesus. Now she can never be old or die no more." No wonder she was appreciative.
Won't you come? Is there another? Is there just another one would raise up? I just feel constrained somehow, that I--I--I'm not doing my best. Come, let me persuade you; let me ask you to come. Is there another? Is there another, someone would just rise up, and say, "Yes, brother preacher, I want to come now. I believe every word that you said is the truth. I'm coming to be reconciled to God."?

L-85 All of you, my precious friends, from this little young boy all the way around to this middle aged man, I promise you in the sincerity, I've told you the truth. God strike me if I haven't told you the truth. See? That's right. I've been honest with you. I'll meet you again, if you're really sincere. I'll meet you again in a land where you'll all be young, where death is gone away. I speak in the Name of the Lord Jesus; I lie not. That's true.
Now, you've come; something drawed you. Something said, "Come." I hope God makes a preacher out of you, son (I do.), that'll take the Gospel, after you've maybe come to Brother Branham's grave someday, and say, "Yeah, he spoke to me one night at the Chautauqua, in Ohio." May He grant it, you little boys, little girls.

L-86 How many here's hasn't received the Holy Ghost? Would you like to come and stand right here while we pray? Just come for a word of prayer.
Remember, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom. The promise is unto you and to your children..."
I don't think we have room for them up here, Brother Sullivan. I want them just put--fill up the aisle there. Just a moment, I want to pray. I--I--I--I want this done right; I want it rightly done. You got correct, I know, Brother Sullivan. You wouldn't let anyone in there but what would be a real instructors in this room. That's good. This has all been taken care of by godly men.


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