<TITLE>13. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 Men and women, friends, do you realize the God of heaven that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead, He is not dead but He's alive. And if He kept His Word to David, if He kept it to Elijah, if He kept it to Moses, if He kept it to the Hebrew children, if He kept it to--to Daniel, He will keep it to you and I. If we are certain that it's God. Hallelujah. My, I feel religious right now. Yes, sir.
I knowed that night... Somebody said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid of a mistake?" A mistake? How can God make a mistake? Certainly. That Angel come up there that night and said He was sending me to do this certain thing, about the visions and so forth; around the world I've went with it, all kinds of people and all kinds of places. And not one time did it fail.

L-58 Why? I'm certain it was God. It come according to His Word. It's according to His Spirit. It's according to His nature. And it's exactly on time to Abraham's Seed.
I can see why the nominal churches won't receive it. Neither did that Angel go down and preach to Lot and them. He stayed up with the elected. They had one to go down there and preach to them--group down there. And that's the reason that they've--they told me when I left my little Baptist church, said, "You're going to be a holy-roller, going to mix up with them holy-rollers."
I said, "I don't know what they are, but if--if God is sending me to them, He's got a message for them." That's right. If God gives a message, somebody's going to hear it somewhere. Amen.

L-59 That's what John thought when he come out of the wilderness, that Elijah of the New Testament, rugged man. He said, "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." He was certain of his message. He knowed that it was true. He knowed that he was borned and received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb at the Name of Jesus Christ.
Nine years old, he went into the wilderness without education, stayed in there till he was thirty, come out without clothes, just a piece of sheepskin draped around him. And he preached the message that shook the regions around about. Amen. Why? He was certain.

L-60 And when he seen that Holy Ghost like a Light, comes down there with two wings on It, coming down upon Jesus, he said, "I knew Him not, but He that spoke to me in the wilderness and said, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining, He is the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.' I'm certain of it."
When he got a little weary, as we talked about the other night, Jesus said, "Go, show John what's taken place." Be certain. Be certain it's a certain sound.
Now, Simeon. It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he was not going to see death, and yet he was a real old man, and he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. He wasn't ashamed. He went around telling everybody. "I'm not going to die. I'm going to see the coming of the Christ."

L-61 Well, I can hear them saying, "Poor old fellow, he's just a little upset. He's getting old now, you know. And he... I believe his mind is collapsing a little, you know." It makes you do things and act like you never did act before. When you're certain. When you're really certain.
Simeon said, "No, I'm not going to die until I see the Christ coming."
Now, said, "Think. David looked for Him. Moses looked for Him. And thousands of years ago they looked for Him. And now here we are in Roman cap... Why, how in the world could he ever see it? Poor old fellow, just don't pay no attention to him.".


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