<TITLE>19. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 When a baby's born, there's three elements comes from--for the baby's life. What's the first thing? Excuse me, sisters. What's the first thing come? Water. If it isn't, it's a dry birth; the baby's not normal. Second thing, blood. That right? What's the next thing? Life. What come from Jesus? Water, Blood, and Life. Pierced His side... What constituted the natural birth constitute the spiritual birth.
If a baby's born, and he's stillborn, he doesn't cry, there's no emotion to him, what's the matter with him? He's a dead born baby. That's what's the matter with the churches today. What's wrong with our Pentecostals? We're bringing forth too many dead born babies. Exactly right. Yes, sir, we are. That's exactly right. What's do you do with a baby if he's stillborn like that? You just takes him by the heels, and raise him up, and give him a little posterior protoplasma stimulation, just as hard as you can, and that fixes him up. And if anything the church needs tonight, is a good old fashion Gospel spanking with the power of the Holy Ghost.

L-56 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... have one thing to do with it, separate ourselves on account of that. Nonsense. It shows we haven't been in the Shekinah Glory yet. That's exactly right.
When I was a little boy, brother and I, we went back out in field behind us; we met an old, old terrapin. I don't know what you know what they are or not, out here on the west coast. How many knows what a turtle, a terrapin is? All right. He was the funniest looking thing to us little kids; he looked so horrible. Here is them big old legs, you know, reaching out like that. And I said, "Isn't he a funny looking thing, brother?"
He said, "Yes, he does."
I said, "Let's go look at him." When he did, went like a lot of these Christians, you know, so called: whew, draw hisself right up in the shell. "Oh, you're Brother Branham that holy-roller." "Ah, you--you're that guy that believes in Divine healing, you're that Divine healer." Oh, you old turtle. See?

L-57 So then, the first thing you know, I said, "Well, wait a minute, brother." I said, "I'll fix him." We wanted to see him walk. And he wouldn't walk for us. He was just setting there like he's dead. That's what the church has done, all got up in your Presbyterian hull, your Methodist, Baptist, and Pentecostal hull, just all packed in, "We don't want to have nothing to do with the rest of them. Huh-uh."
You know what I said? I said, "I'll get me a switch; I'll pour it on him." I went over and got me a great big willow switch, and I just whipped him for all it was, and he didn't do a thing. You can't whip it into him. I said, "I'll tell you; I'll fix him." I took him down to the creek and got him by the shell, I said, "I'll drown him or he will walk." And I put him under the water and just a few bubbles come up, and that was all, didn't do a thing. Brother, you can baptize them three times forward, three times backwards, pour them, any who you want to, and he'd just go down a dry sinner and come up a wet one.


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