<TITLE>16. Par -</TITLE>L-764-98 That's it, that's the way to win the war. Keep trying. Throw the shell in and pull it. You got a purpose, a target to hit. And if it don't go off, throw it out and throw another one in, and try it again. Throw it in and try it again till one goes off. There's one of them in there that's alive. And one of them will go off. So that's the way we got to do. Just keep firing away, firing away until something happens.
What am I doing? I'm firing away now. I'm going out here not knowing even--out any leading or responsibility. Millions of people looking at you, "What you going to do? What's the next move?" Some thinks I'm dead; some thinks this. Even that gun went off the other day, and said I was trying to commit suicide, everything (See?), out around the country and everything. See? But you got all that to contend with. Then you got the burden of the people.

L-765-100 And just imagine what if God would place on you that you knowed the heart of the people that you was talking to. Think about that. See? Brethren, maybe, I know you have burdens, but you don't understand. And besides that, here you got the responsibility here...
You say, "Well, that ought to be easy for you, Brother Branham. Anything you do, God just tells you." No, He doesn't. I sweat it out just like you do and a whole lot harder. Sure. I have to sweat it much harder than you do, and there's going to be more required of me. Where you have to answer for a church, where you have to answer for your family or maybe just for yourself (See?), there's millions of souls I got to answer for. I got to know my moves. And if Satan's knocking you for one soul or a few souls that you'll catch, what about out here where millions are setting in order? How many more blasts is he throwing in there? See? So you've got a whole lot to remember, brethren. That... No wonder I get nervous sometimes. Sure.

L-765-102 But now, I'm punching away right now. I throw a shell in, if it fires, there it is. If it don't fire, I won't quit; I'll throw that one out as a thud and try another one. One of them's going to go off; that's all there is to it. One of them's going to fire somewhere. Then I--I want to be on the target, so when it does fire, I'll hit the object that I'm shooting at. And I, you know what I mean, I'm sure. See? There's something somewhere. I'm leaving for these meetings, just plunging out yonder; I don't aim to teach these great things I teach you people.
You remember what that dream that I got the interpretation was. "Go back and store up food." Where was the storehouse? This tabernacle. Where's there anything like it in the country around here anywhere that will compare with the Message that we have? (Now, of course, our little brothers here that's out along here, these other little churches, are us. We're one.) Where would you go to, to find it? Show its comparison anywhere. You go right out in denominational creeds; you'll go right out away from the Name of the Lord Jesus; you'll go right out away from these other things. See? And here's where the food's been stored up.

L-766-104 Well, one Message that I preached here to you all. Look, I've been preaching from one to six hours to you on a message. Well, if I had to use one of those message, I'd take a week to take It just a little bit here and a little bit there (See?) because It's been stored up here.
It's on tapes; It'll go worldwide on the tapes where people in their houses. Them tapes will fall right into the hands of the predestinated of God; He can direct the Word; He'll direct everything just exactly to its course. That's the reason He sent me back to do this. "Store up the food here"; He forbid me to go overseas.


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