<TITLE>23. Par 86-89</TITLE>L-86 So his brother's a sinner, and he got snake bit by a ground rattler. Anybody knows what a ground rattler is? He's really rank. And his brother was in the hospital, and walked on a hook for a long time, wasn't it, Brother Welch? On a hook...
So Brother Welch and I went back there, got eleven big fish that day. Oh, my, how fine. And I had a great big bass on, and I just couldn't hold him. And Brother Welch come up there, had his trouser legs all rolled up. He said, "Can't you hold him?"
I said, "He's too big. He must weigh fourteen, fifteen pounds." And I had him on there, and he just run over them pads, and I throwed a little bumble bee out again. Here he come. And one hit again, and it was a good one, around eight or ten pounds. But I couldn't hold him. And after while I got him kind of whipped down, started to bring him in.
Brother Welch said, "I'll get him." And without thinking, he jumped in those tulies and under those pads, to grab the fish barefooted, and a ground rattler grabbed him. There went the snake through the...

L-87 He jumped out of there, holding his foot like that, like bone-freezing in there, and his teeth set together, and the tears running down his cheeks.
And I looked, blood coming out in two places, about that wide apart. Oh, my. Well, I... He's a great big man. How am I going to pack him about two or three miles through them swamps? And I happened to think. And I said, "Oh, Brother Evans, oh, my, Brother Evans."
And something said to me, "I'm a very present Help in the time of trouble." I've never seen it before.
And I lay my hands over on his foot, and I said, "Now, Brother Evans, just--just a minute."
And I said, "Heavenly Father, we're in a state of emergency. And I--I know that Your Word says, that these--that they shall tread on the heads of scorpions and serpents, and nothing shall harm them. This man is a believer. He's Your child. And I put my hand over on him. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke that poison venom from that snake."
And I heard him quit groaning. I took my hand off. He said, "I haven't got a pain." We went on fishing all that day. That night when they come in, they was around there talking. We had those great big, black bass, about that long, hanging up.

L-88 About eleven o'clock his brother come out there. So he was still limping a little on his foot, and he wasn't a believer. He was a sinner boy: a fine fellow, a very fine man. I'm expecting to lead him to Christ next time I go down, baptize him out there in one of them pools.
And so, then when a... We went out there. And he runs a bait shop. And we was at a place in a little motel across the street from it at Fort--Fort Pierce. And so, his brother come out there, and I was telling his brother about it. And he seen that snakebite.
He said, "Now, brother, it's good to be religious, but not crazy." He said, "You'd better get to a doctor right now." Said, "You know how that made me lay in a hospital like that."
Brother Evans said, "I was bit this morning at eleven o'clock. This is nearly eleven o'clock tonight. And if God has taken care of me by His grace this long, He will take care of me the rest of the way out." Never had a rub or smell of anything. It's amazing grace--our Lord Jesus Christ.

L-89 I know those little girls, Brother and Sister Evans. And I believe this is Brother Willie setting here, the artist that drawed the pictures of them... church world. Was you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] wall that Pillar of Fire. Was you there, Willie, to see that? Was you there, Brother Evans? Sister Evans? How many's in the building was there at the church that morning, to see it? All right. For fifteen minutes it stood right there, visible before nearly four hundred people standing there looking at it. Amen. That's right.
He's the Lord Jesus, and that same Angel of God is right here now. Have faith in God.


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