<TITLE>63. Par -</TITLE>L-101-4 I said to this man... He said, "Did you ever receive the Holy Ghost?"
I said, "I don't believe I've got what you fellows has."
Said, "Glory to God. Did you ever speak in tongues?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "You ain't got her."
I said, "Well, I--I don't guess I have." See? I said, "This is something new. I never seen or heard of it." I said, "Well..."
He said, "Well, go in there and get her... Sure, she's for you."
I said, "Thank you, sir." I thought, "Brother, I don't want what you got." So then I--I looked at it a little bit, and I went on around a little while, went on out, and I went out in the woods that night, and I--I thought, "God, have mercy, I'm going home." And I went home. I couldn't say nothing for or against.

L-102-2 One time, I was up here at Green's Mill (my little old cave where I always go that you know about). I'd been in there on something else. Three or four days I had been up there fasting and praying. It got musty in the cave, and I come out one afternoon. It was pretty and sun was shining--leaves... There was an old log had fell down like this just below it (down towards the creek), and I set down on there rubbing my eyes (been back in that dark cave for a while). I laid the Bible down like that, and I thought, "Well, I believe I'll read some out of the Bible now." I leaned back against this limb here and just rest myself and leaning back; I was dusty all over.

L-102-3 And I started to read, and when I picked up the Bible, it was Hebrews the 6th chapter. See? "For it is impossible for those that once enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, seeing if they should fall away, to renew themselves again to the--repentance. Seeing if... The rain cometh upon the earth oft to dress it, and prepare for that which... the briers, thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto rejection... is to be burned."
I thought, "Well, what's that?"...?... And I thought, "What was that?" "Oh," I said, "I guess it's something." It went away. I wasn't--I was up there praying about something else.
And I laid my Bible down again. I said, "Well, I guess I'll turn over and get me something to read," like that, and the wind come and blowed it right back. I was in the Old Testament; blowed it right back to Hebrews the 6th chapter. I looked down again, and there it was. So I looked; I picked it up; I read it again: same thing. "Well," I thought, "My, are you getting superstitious, Bill?"

L-102-5 So I thought, "Well, I'll read here," and I couldn't--I started to read, and I couldn't get interested in nothing. I thought, "Well, I believe I'll just raise up my hands and praise the Lord." I laid the Bible down like that, raised up my hands to praise the Lord. When I raised up my hands, the wind went, "Whoosh," [Brother Branham makes sound of the wind--Ed.] blowed again, and when it did, I looked down there: Hebrews 6. I read it again. I thought, "What does that mean? I can't understand." I had done forgot about the Pentecostal idea. Then I thought, "What does that mean?"

L-103-1 And I was setting there and I thought, "Is there something in there, Lord?" I thought, "Now, I believe in election, yeah. 'They which were once enlightened, partakers of the Holy Ghost (See?), and has tasted of the Word of God...'" I said, "That's that borderline believers that'll come right up almost to the real thing and then go back; just like them was in the times of Joshua." (Joshua and Caleb went on over, but these just stayed borderline, see, tasted and seen the good works of God, then refused it.)
People set around the church all the time, saying, "I believe that, Brother Branham," but never make a move towards it. See, said, it's impossible for them to ever go across. So then they come to that place, and you preach to women with short hair; next year they got short hair, just the same. Preach to men to do--they do just--just the same thing. You see? Never see--borderline believers. Just say, "Oh, yes, I believe it's right."


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