<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 The ministry of Oral Roberts... I remember the first time I met Oral Roberts, little, ragged tent setting on the other side. I was in--in Kansas City, Missouri, or Kansas, and he was in Kansas City, Missouri. We met around behind the stage, shook hands with me. And he said, "Brother Branham, do you think God would answer my prayers for the sick?"
I said, "He answer anybody's prayers for the sick." And we got our pictures together. It's in the old copy of the "Voice of Healing" if many of you have it, perhaps. And there--there Oral started out.
Look how his ministry's growed, and now into the millions and millions and millions of dollars, now building a great big school of theology.

L-10 I think of Billy Graham, right down here in Los Angeles when all the Youth For Christ got to praying for him, how that the newspaper wrote him up critical, criticized him about saying the--the lion, Leo, kicked him in the belly and said, "See if that's one's fat enough" to lay his head onto. Think of a minister saying something like that. Today, they'd be scared to say it. But Billy Graham, his ministry has growed in such a way. See?
Oral Robert's ministry's growed. The little gift that God gave him and prophesied, look how it's growed. See? But yet, the revival is dying, dying, dying.

L-11 Billy Graham said in Louisville, when he was in my hometown, and he set there... I was at his ministerial breakfast. He said, "I go into a city, and I'll have there six weeks' meeting, and get thirty thousand (What is it he calls them? Confessions, or decisions.)--thirty thousand decisions." Said, "I come back in six months, I can't find thirty."
He said, "Paul went into a city, and he got one decision for Christ. He come back a year later and found thirty or forty from that one." He said, "Now, there's something wrong." Sure. See?

L-12 Just when the revival's going, and the Spirit of God is moving, God is moving with the people, then when He gets that crop out, weeded out, that's it. That's for that generation. Remember, He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." See? Each generation will just produce so many. And that's the way you see it today. Everywhere it's just a dying away, a falling away. Sin is collapsing in everything.

L-13 We've come to meetings, they'll... I was at a meeting just down in Los Angeles last week at the exhibit yard there, where the place was packed out of great crowds of people. And they seemed to all love the Lord. But it seemed like it's just--it's just almost over. Make an altar call, and honest, you couldn't get no one up to the altar. No one.
And when you do, they're not really Christians. They're... What they are, I mean, just confessors. They are people who's once knowed the Lord, and just backslid away, coming back. So that ain't... We couldn't call them converts. They've been converted when they accepted Christ. They just fell away: just renewing their fellowship. See? But converts, there's not a dozen a year, I guess, around, especially in--in our little meetings. So you see it's just about gleaning over the fields.
But yet, the sovereignty of God to be sure that every one is caught, every grain is preserved... Even the pieces that was left off of the twelve baskets is picking up. See? God lets nothing... He combs back and forth through the fields again to catch it again. Aren't we thankful that we have a Father like that?


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