<TITLE>06. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 The King of England... One night, when a saint baptized him the next morning, they were setting by a fire, a great big, like a piazza. And there was a great furnace of fire, or--or grate we would call it, only a large, mammoth, big place where logs was laying. The saint was trying to tell the king about God, and a little sparrow finished his sermon. The little sparrow in the nighttime flew into the dark, into the light, went back out of the light, into the dark. And the saint raised up, and said to the king, "Where did he come from and where did he go?"
That's what we want to know. Where did we come from, and what are we doing here, and where do we go from here? Now, they... All the science that we got, as many bones as we've dug up, as many books as we've wrote, there's not one book that can tell you where you come from, what you are, and where you're going: only one Book, and that's the Bible. It tells you where you come from, what you are here, and where you are going. So therefore, if we want to know where from here, let's take the only book that can tell us.

L-25 Ancient bones they're digging up, and--and staglites, and so forth, can prove nothing. God's Word's got the answer. It's got the answer to everything that we ask. It's in God's Book. Man has often wondered. We go down sometimes, and read the Scriptures, and wonder over them. But we're not supposed to wonder. You can't explain Them; you've got to believe Them.
No man can--can scientifically prove God. If you could prove God scientifically, then it's no more of faith. We're supposed to believe God, and faith is not scientific.
What if Moses would've pulled some of the leaves off the trees and said, "I believe I'll take it to the laboratory to find out what chemical is on them that won't let them burn." See, God would've never talked to him. He did not know that. The only thing he done was take off his shoes and set down in reverence, and God talked back to him.
We cannot scientifically prove these promises of God, but we look back and find out where in season every one of them happened just as God said they would. So in reverence and respects to His Word tonight let's just set down for a while and look at it, and see where we're going, what's the purpose. What are we here for? What's it all about?

L-26 Here some time ago I was out west, and I was standing in a man's house that invited me out for--for dinner. And he said, "Mr. Branham, I see you admiring that sculpture, painting, or not painting, but it was kind of carved out of wood--plaque-like, over the fireplace.
I said, "Yes, sir. I am." And it was an old ox cart, or covered wagon with oxes: a man in front, a little boy setting on the seat with his mother, and they were traveling.
And he said, "That was my father and mother, and the little boy on the seat was myself." He said, "We come here in this ox cart." He said, "But since then, we have so prospered." He said, "I want you to step out here in the yard." He said... I forget how many thousands of acres that he owned there of a ranch. He said, "I bought that in my young days."
And he said, "Then after that, the adjoining ranch to the west I own; the adjoining ranch to the south I own." Said, "You see the smoke over there?"
"Yes, sir."
Said, "That's a city." I forget how much property he owned there.
He said, "I'm the president in that bank there," and telling me what all he had.


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