<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Now, if I stood here with nail scars in my hand, and--and prints of--all over my head here with--from a crown of thorns, and told you that the Spirit of God was in me, that wouldn't make it so. My hands could be actually scarred. That wouldn't be an evidence. But when you can say that the Spirit of God is in us, then the works of God will be manifested through your life.
In other words, if a tree... if a vine... He's the Vine (St. John 15); we are the branches. Now, the vine does not bear fruit; it's the branches. But it gets its energy from the vine.
Now, Jesus doesn't have any hands on earth but yours and mine. He doesn't have any--or any mouth on earth but yours and mine. Then we become energized with the Spirit of Christ. And if the Life that's in the Vine is in the branch, the branch will produce the fruits that's in the Vine. Certainly. We know that--many times, hundreds of people, coming from everywhere, from all nations.

L-15 Now, before I set down, I'd like to say this. Many times people comes like this: There's a man in here somewhere tonight (supposedly). He come up home, not long ago--just to give you a little illustration. Brother Welch Evans, I suppose he's here. Are you here, Brother Evans? Raise up your hand if you are. Yeah, over here against the wall. He comes--drives about seven hundred miles one way, every Sunday, when I'm to speak at the Tabernacle. Right about fifteen hundred miles a trip on Sunday--start on Saturday, go gets back Monday or Tuesday.

L-16 He had a new station wagon. He brought it to Louisville. And they got a--had a great thieving ring in Louisville. And they'd--they'd steal cars, take them to Bowling Green, about a hundred and eighteen miles below, run them into a paint shop, paint them, run them out. And you don't have to have a title to sell a car in Kentucky. They take the number off the block and make you a title. And, oh, it was a horrible ring. Mr. Evans, not knowing this, come in to the--to Miller's cafeteria, left his car open, went into the cafeteria; he come back out. His tape recorder, their clothes, their car and all, was gone. He and Brother Fred Sothmann...

L-17 And then, they consulted one another. They didn't know what to do, and they said, "Let's go up to Brother Branham." They come up there at the house.
I said, "Well, I don't know. We'll just pray."
Now, you might think this would be wrong. But getting down, praying, I cannot make it happen. God has to do it. I don't control it; it controls me. See?
Then I saw the car on the road, going towards Bowling Green. A young fellow was driving it. He was dressed with an overall jacket on, had a brown tie. I started praying just as the vision was. The man turned hisself around in the road. The man had been a Christian, and the Holy Spirit stopped him, turned him around, and I saw him where he parked the car. Told Mr. Evans, "Go to such and such a place, and you'll find your car there. And you just filled your tank up."
"Yes."
"It'll be about half empty, because he's drove about a hundred miles in it."
Mr. Evans turned around, went out of the place. I held him there for a while until the vision could be brought to pass. Mr. Evans, on his road out to Mr. Sothmann's. Right on the side of the street, coming from Louisville, all the way over to Jeffersonville, across the river, parked the car right in that place, and it was setting there with the keys in it, ready. Is that right, Mr. Evans?
See, prayer. I want to tell you, you don't have to see a vision. But just pray. See? The Holy Spirit convicted the man and turned him around.


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