<TITLE>10. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Now, Isaiah described Him as a great Rock in a weary land. That's this land, a weary land, or a weary time. We're living in a weary time, when people are trying to dig holes underneath their house, put a big tank in there.
Well, don't you know if an atomic bomb would ever blast this place, well, that would go so deep into the ground it'd break every bone in your body? And why, some of them bombs will blow a hole a hundred and or a hundred and fifty, two hundred feet, maybe, deep; and kill everything on top of the earth for--for a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles around it. Blow a hole two or three hundred feet deep, maybe, and for a hundred miles around take everything, just make it into volcanic ashes. If you were plumb down to the center of the earth in the volcanic, it would still kill you.
There's no escape, only up, get away from it. Yes, sir. How do you get up? Go down first. That's right. How? Go down, confess your sins, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, be buried in baptism with Him, and rise in His resurrection, with the Holy Spirit that lifts you up above the cares, and worries, and unbelief of the world. Yes, that's it. "The Name of the Lord is a mighty tower, a mighty rock in a weary land; the righteous run into it, and are safe." How we thank God for that.

L-38 I was reading not long ago, as I like to read about wildlife. I was a conservation officer for years, and I've studied wildlife. Most all of you know about a--a rifle blowing up on me, the other day. If it hadn't been for God, it would've killed me. Now, I'd just like to say something about that. That was too much pressure. That's what done it.
Let me give you a little lesson here. You know, the rifle was not original Weatherby rifle. As I've said that... I had friends would've bought me one. I always wanted one, but I--I--I wouldn't let them do it because it cost more than any other rifle. And a fine Christian businessman gave my boy a model 70 Winchester; and Billy is left-handed, and it's a right-handed bolt, and he couldn't use it. So I give him my old Savage .300, and I took his rifle, 'cause I was right-handed. And so then... It was a .257 Roberts, to you brothers who hand load and know guns.
And then a friend of mine come along, said, "Brother Branham, you never would let us buy you a Weatherby. Now, Weatherby can bore that out, and make it a Weatherby, for just a little bit of money. Cost you thirty dollars." Cost me about ten or fifteen. Said, "Let them bore it out. Let me have that gun for you."
Well, he's such a wonderful brother, I said, "Go ahead, take it."
Well, he went and bored it out. When I put a shell in it, and shot it, it liked to killed me.

L-39 Now, here's what it was. If that would've been a Weatherby Magnum to begin with, it never would've blowed up. For why? It at the beginning would've been started on those dies. It would've correctly been a Weatherby Magnum. But being it was something else, and tried to make something out of it that it wasn't, it blowed up.
And that's what's the matter today with the Christians. That's exactly. There's so many people that tries to impersonate Christianity. They get excited. They go out and try to act like a Christian. What happens? The first little pressure comes along, you blow up.
But if you'd have went back to the beginning and been borned again of the Spirit of God, you can stand the pressure, because it was sent to you. You must start from death to Life. You must die, go into the scrap heap, and be molded over. If you don't, you're going to blow up somewhere.


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