<TITLE>14. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 Sometime ago an old rancher and I was together. We'd been partners a long time. I never could just lead him to Christ. We were way high in the mountains. And he kind of got a little hump on his back, and he was carrying a great big old bull gun on his back, walking around. The--the light was shining down through them trees where hardly a man had ever walked. He stopped all at once, and he looked around. He said, "This looks like a cathedral."
I said, "Jeff, I felt Him in here ever since I come across the hill."
He throwed his arms around me, said, "Billy, I want to find Him right here in His cathedral." That's it. He turned up... He never smoked or anything. And he hated automobiles 'cause he was a rancher. He said, "You don't smell no gas, neither cigarettes up here, do you, Billy?"
I said, "No, this is where He lives, Jeff. This is why I come up here."

L-49 Get up high. That's what you have to do in the spiritual atmosphere. Don't stay down here like a chicken. Fly away of it. Get away. Chickens, every old rat coming out of a barn will catch him. Yes, sir. If you don't take it no farther than just, "Join the church, and come every Sunday, and we'll have a little bunco game, and we'll play croquet in the back yard." That's not what it is, brother. "Have a soup supper and pay our pastor off," and all of these... "Put on your bathing suits, and go swimming, get a suntan." You need a son-tan.
I got two girls. They may try it one of these days, and they're going to get a tanning from a son, but not the s-u-n; the s-o-n of Mr. Branham, be with the barrel slap behind them, just as hard as I can...?... That's what they need, is that kind of a tanning. Yes, sir. Oh, my.
What we need today is a good old Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the church again. Right. His ambitions are high. Chicken stays down on the ground, builds his nest and every rat, snake, and every scavenger there is comes in, eats the eggs 'fore they're even born, even hatched out. That's right.

L-50 That's the reason Billy's losing all of his converts. That's exactly right. Every rat in the country, every old cigarette smoker, dancer, everything else comes in, takes them out. Let him build that nest a little higher up yonder sometime, lift them up just a little bit higher. Get out of the reach of them.
Jesus said, "If you love the world, the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." John said that. Get them out of the things of the world. Get them out of the reach of it. And a man that ever tasted Jesus Christ, the world is dead to him.

L-51 I got a little Bible at home (one of my first), and I picked it up the other day and looked in it. I had in the back... people kept asking me questions. It said, "Is it wrong to smoke?" (That's when I was in the Baptist church.) Said, "Is it wrong to smoke, is it wrong to drink?"
I wrote a little poem in there, and I said...
Don't ask me foolish questions.
Just make this up in your mind.
If you love the Lord with all your heart,
You don't smoke, chew, or drink any shine.
So I think that still stands good. That's right. How would you ever eat out of a garbage can after once you'd eat from God's table? No such a thing. So you can't do it. Certainly.

L-52 Now, the next thing he likened the eagle... Oh, I got so many things, but we haven't got time to get to them all. But the next thing is: the eagle restores his youth. You know the Psalms said that. Proverbs said it. "As an eagle restores his youth..." renews his youth. He renews his youth. An old eagle, every once in a while, all them feathers drops out, and he renews his youth again. Well, that's likened to His church.


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