<TITLE>30. Par 131-135</TITLE>L-131 Now, coming among you out here at Phoenix, in this lovely place, appreciating you so much, letters you write, and encouragement, and things that you try to encourage me on, and you pray for me. That's the reason I've got to be--I want to be sincere with you. See, then Christ is going to make me answer for this. And if I don't tell you all the truth, then (See?), I--I'm going to have to answer. And that's the reason I want you to--I want you to be there, brother, sister. Don't take a chance. If there's a slightest chance, don't take it. Don't just play with it. Don't... Let--let's really be real, real Christians. Let's... You can be. Others are. You can be too. You know a certain lady that you'd like to be like, a certain man you'd like to be like, a certain minister you'd like to be like, a certain person, you want to be that way. You can be. Now, let's just believe with all of our heart.

L-132 And now, while we have our head bowed, and I'm going to ask our sister at the piano there, if she will, just to give us a little chord of a song, sister, if you will. And I wonder, you, that really would like to... Now, if you're really sincere, it'll happen right now if you're really sincere. But you have to be sincere.

L-133 I've got a testimony. I've been... Since my mother went away, I've been out in the wilderness laying in a cave, fasting and praying. A vision came to me. And that was one of the things was sincerity. See? Now, are you really mean that, that you want to be a Christian like that? You want to just let all the world go, everything taken off of you?
If you really mean that, you're not ashamed of anybody in this church. You're not ashamed for anybody to see your stand. No, sir, you're not. You--you--you held your hand to God. You're not ashamed of anything. You're coming... The only thing you're ashamed of is your life (See?), and you want--you want it to be straightened. You want... You've always wanted to overcome so you'd do the thing that was right.

L-134 If you're that sincere, I want you to raise up and come here, stand here at the altar, like you was coming to be prayed for if you were sick. I want to pray for you, and lay hands on you. If you want to come up here now for that, you just move right out, and I'm sure that the heavenly Father will... Just come quietly and stand right around the altar here. Come for consecration, quiet as you can.
"I'm consecrating my life from this night on, Brother Branham. I ain't going to presume nothing. I'm coming right now. I'm coming right now. I'm--I'm through with it. I'm--I'm promising God. I'm... No matter what comes or goes, I'm--I'm through with sin right now. I want to be a real Christian. I'm coming to consecrate my life." That makes me feel so good to see you do that.

L-135 Now, just a--just a moment or two longer now. Is there someone else would like to just stand, and say, "I... Tonight I'm consecrating my life. I... God, I'm--I'm tired of this. I've always wanted to be a real, real Christian. It's burned in my heart ever since I was a little boy (or I was a little girl). I--I want the very... I--I can't take a chance like this, knowing I've got to die." Won't you come just stand around the altar a minute for consecration? Consecration means to be consecrated to something, to consecrated to Christ.
Will you come and stand around the altar for this just a minute? Christians that doesn't have this experience, don't take a chance on it now. See? How's the tree known? By the fruit it bears.


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