<TITLE>24. Par 74-76</TITLE>L-74 And I seen him leveling down like this. And I thought, "I just--I just can't look at it." I turned my back, and I thought--I said, "Heavenly Father, how can he be so wicked and yet be such a nice man in one way, and be so cruel in his heart to blow that precious mother's heart plumb out of her, that loyal heart beating there for that baby? How, well, why--why could he do a thing like that?"
And I noticed, the gun didn't fire. And I waited, and I waited. I thought, "Why didn't it fire?" I looked around and the gun barrel was going like this. And he looked around at me, and those eyes had changed, great big tears was running down out of his--down his cheeks. He threw the gun on the ground, grabbed me by the pants leg and said, "Billy, I've had enough of it." He said, "Lead me to that Jesus you talk about."

L-75 What was it? He seen something real. He seen something that wasn't put on. He seen a real mother's love that'll walk right in the face of death. It wasn't a sermon I preached; it wasn't a song that was sung. It was a display of something that was so real that he seen something real. And that mother's loyalty led that man, he's a deacon in a Baptist church there now. Mother's love being real...
Oh, sinner friend, or lukewarm church member, wouldn't you like to have the love of Jesus Christ to display to the world, as loyal to Christ as that mother was to her baby? Would you raise your hand, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, that I'll be that type of Christian." Raise up your hands, everywhere. God bless you. God bless you. "I want something real, Brother Branham. I want something that's lasting. I want to be as much Christian as that deer was a mother." Put your hands way up now so I can pray. God bless you. God bless you. Let us bow our heads.

L-76 Heavenly Father, the hands were so many I could not number them. They were all around, everywhere, up in the balconies, and in the front, and in the back, and on the sides, and all, everywhere, around through the main floor. They raised their hands, Lord, because that they--they believe You. They want something real. They--they want something that's not put on, something that's--that's just real. I pray that You give it to them, Father. Give unto them the real Holy Spirit. May they return to their church happy and rejoicing.
Now, it's written in the Word, Saint John 5:24: "He that heareth My words (that's what I've been preaching on) and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall not come to the judgment; but's pass from death unto Life." Now, Father, I hold that; that's Your Word. I hold it before You, and You Who are omnipotent, omniscient, and You know every hand that went up... Why did they put their hand up? Because there's a spirit in them, and there's a Spirit standing by them that said, "You're wrong; you want to be that kind of a Christian. Put up your hand now and I'll save you." And they raised up their hand. They made a decision. That decision was that they desire to live a different life. And You said, "He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and will not come to the judgment; but's passed from death unto life." You also said, "No man can come to Me except, My Father draws him. And all that the Father has given Me, will come to Me. I'll give him Everlasting Life and raise him up at the last day." Now, Father, that's Your Word. And as Your servant tonight, I--I claim every one of them souls for You. I claim them, every one. I pray, God, that they have come now to You, to this fountain filled with blood. That they'll be saved safely, and will go away from here tonight, and seek, and find the baptism of the Holy Spirit that'll seal them away from the things of the world. Grant it.


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