<TITLE>04. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 We find people drink. Get out, run around, carouse around, and then try to drink it off. I guess they think that's the thing they should do. That don't let off the pressure; that builds up the pressure, going at the wrong thing, wrong way.
Then they'll go out and do everything they can to... whether it's right or wrong, and--and sin and try to hide from it, and--and think you're doing something great. What you trying to do? You're trying to hide from something. You know you're wrong. No man can do wrong but what he knows he's doing wrong. Very nature in him, though he be a fallen man, he's a fallen son of God. There's something in him that tells him that it's wrong.
No man can run with another man's wife without he knows it's wrong. No man can get drunk 'less he knows it's wrong. No woman can wear immoral clothes but what she knows it's wrong. You can't do those things. But what do you do? You're trying to let off a pressure, all twisted up, wound up.
It's just simply a neurotic age that we're living in. It's a--it's the time that we're living: pressure.

L-13 I was speaking about, here not long ago, being in Africa, watching a little lamb out from where the natives had a little corral. And they'd let the little fellow out, and he was grazing. And all at once he got real nervous, and I thought, "What's the matter with the little guy?"
But as I watched, he couldn't see it, but in the distance there was a great big, yellow-mane lion, slipping up through the grass. He'd smelled the little lamb and was making his way to him. See, he was just nervous. He didn't know why. Sometimes we call it premonition. Now, the reason he was nervous, he didn't see the lion, but just something... He knowed that death was lurking near.

L-14 The world seems to be in that same condition, know that something is lingering near, something's fixing to happen. It builds up a pressure, of course, to the sinner. But the Christian who's instructed in the Word ought to know that that's the coming of the Lord. It ought to build up a glorious jubilee in the Christian, knowing that the end is nigh.
Someone said not long ago to me, said, "Brother Branham, you--you scare the people when you talk about He might come in the next hour."
I said, "Scare what people? Not His people," See? That's the greatest note that we can sound. That's what we're looking for. "Behold, the Bridegroom coming." Why, that's what we live for. That's the hour that we're all living for. I know nothing could be greater than that hour. But to the sinner, of course, it's a terrible thing.

L-15 I was talking... Sometime I'm in and out different places, preaching, but somewhere I must've made this remark, might've been here. But when a storm is coming up over a parched land, and we can feel that cool breeze, we know that rain is fixing to come. It ought to make us happy to breathe, because that air has come through the rain, and it's just the fore announcement of the coming rain.
And when Christians sees the thing today happening that's happening, it's the fore announcing of the coming of the Lord. We can feel the breeze off of it, it's so close. What a refreshing feeling to those that's not scared of a storm to have a abiding place.
Yes. Drinking, hiding, builds up pressure. It doesn't let it off.

L-16 A few days ago I was in our city, and our pastor... I've been looking for him; he's supposed to be here: Brother Neville. Fine brother. We love him down our way. And he was a Methodist, come from the Methodist school. And--and he invited me about twenty years ago down to preach for him one night at the Methodist church in a city below us.
And standing there preaching and talking to him... I come back. I said to the church," You know what? I'm going to baptize him one of these days, and God's going to give him the Holy Ghost." And He did. Now, he's a pastor up there.


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