<TITLE>22. Par 90-92</TITLE>L-90 He's up, up from the grave. He's up from the dead. He's been raised for two thousand years, and we're living with Him, resurrected Him, setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (amen), already raised from the dead. What's the use of having the pressure on you? Live? Why, you've got to live. You can't die. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life." That's right. "I am the Resurrection, and Life," said Jesus, "He that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live: whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." See, we're already raised with Him. We got the earnest of it; the Holy Spirit declares it so. We've passed from death unto life. How do you know? All the world's beat off.
The old eagle can just scream as he wants to 'cause every shackle is off of him, all the old crust is gone. And when the worldly crust, worldly habits, all the fuss and tempers, stew, and all the carrying on, running from denomination to denomination, is all settled and you're in Christ Jesus, you know Eternal Life dwells, for you look back and see where you come from, back down there in that muck and fuss down there. Now, I'm up here, safe forevermore in Christ Jesus, a new creature.

L-91 A few years ago I was way up in the mountains preaching. And I was preaching one night just as hard as I could on "Holiness unto the Lord," and how it would be upon every heart and upon the horses. And that great shadow would be in the day time, of a Pillar of Fire by night hanging over Mount Zion, and so forth. And when I got through preaching I made an altar call. There was an old logger back there, and God just kinda said, "Hold on just a little bit longer."
And I said, "Anybody wants to come and receive the Lord, come now." And he wouldn't come. I asked them to play the hymn again. They played the hymn. Directly, here he come running up like that. He'd come down there to throw me out of the meeting. His overalls was all tore off like that, and he had a big old nail sticking in the side of them, been cutting fodder. And he come up there, couldn't hardly get to the altar. He fell and crawled hand over head hollering, "God, have mercy to me," like that, come up to the altar and got saved.

L-92 The next day, and next night, he come up there setting there with his little children. His little boy come up, little bitty fellow about five years old, said, "Brother Branham," said, "we got a good daddy now." Said, "Every night he'd come in and get drunk, and whip us and everything." But said, "Tonight we all asked the blessing at the table." He'd passed from death unto Life.
Just before I got ready to preach, he said, "Brother Branham, would you have--spare me a moment till I could say something?" he said.
I said, "Yes, sir. Come on up here, brother."
He come up there. He said, "I--I was once dead, but I'm alive now." He said, "Everything's changed for me." He said, "I had a dream last night, Brother Branham."
I said, "What was it? Would you mind telling us?"
He said, "You know, Brother Branham, I dreamed that I was a rabbit." And he said, "The hounds had jumped me up." And said, "I was running, but them long-legged hounds was coming right behind me, just about to catch me." Said, "They were howling," and said, "they got so close to me till I could feel their breath on my heels." And said, "Every... I could just feel them nipping at me every time they'd make a jump."


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