<TITLE>16. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 So much in us, every time we start to bend, we break. But you have to get all the--the worldly sap out of you, all the world's sap out of you, and then hold it over a fire. Fire will draw the sap out. And I'll tell you; that's what it takes to draw the sap out of us now, the worldly sap.
Then what did they do with it? They took a tree and cut down a rosin tree. And instead of--of just cutting it down, they took it and beat it. And they beat that tree until they beat the rosin out of it. Then they took the rosin out of that and poured it into this shittim wood. And when it did, it filled up all these crevasses and it's harder than steel. That's right.
Then it was in the ark. And God pitched it on the outside--or Mo--or Noah did; on the inside and outside, He pitched it. Well, that's exactly the way God told him to build it.

L-66 And that's the way we build it today. We can't pour these waters and things into the church and make it anything. You can be baptized face forward, backward, whatever you will, it won't do no good, not a bit. We argue about creeds, about sprinkling, about pouring, about this, that, and the other. Well what good does it do if that's all you got? That's right.

L-67 And I said, that only way they would ever... One time when I was a little boy, there was... Brother and I was out back the farm and there was... We found an old turtle when he was... You know how they walk with their feet like that, funny looking things. And brother and I thought that was the funniest looking creature we ever saw. So when I got right up to him, he went shhhewww [Brother Branham makes a sound--Ed.], drawed back in like that.
Just like, you know, you go to preaching the Gospel and really laying it on, you see them old turtle just want to draw back in a hull. "...?... I'm going." Yes.
And I went up to him; I said, "Wonder if we could make him walk?" Well, we--we pinched him, and we done everything we could. He--he wouldn't walk. Pushed him, kicked him around, it didn't make him walk. Well, I went over and got me a switch, and I poured it on him, and he--he didn't walk. And I said, "Well..." and I... you... That's it. You--you can't--you can't whip it into them. So then I said, "I--I--I'll fix him, brother."

L-68 We went out to the spring down there and... hole of water. I just stuck him down in there. I said, I'll drowned him or he will walk. And I held him down there: just a few bubbles come up and that's all. He was just all right. And brethren, you... water don't do it.
But you know how I made him walk? I got me a piece of paper and made a little fire and set him on it. Brother, he walked then. Yes.
If there's anything that'll make the church walk right, do right, show itself, is the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire coming down from God out of heaven will straighten the church out, not a fuss about this or a fuss about that, but a baptism of the fiery love of God that comes down and sweeps the things out of your heart, makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Women will let their hair grow out and men will quit smoking cigarettes, and I tell you... And all these things will straighten out, if--if you just get the fire down on them. True.
Now, seemed awful strange to Noah when he was doing this, but he was--heard that certain sound. That's what he wanted.


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