<TITLE>21. Par 79-82</TITLE>L-79 Then they got people down, and they got--took in everything in the church, and just... instead of just letting it alone.
Little did Israel know. When they'd seen God come up there, they thought the Millennium was right on for them. They'd seen God smite them Egyptians, and drown them in the Red Sea, and perform all kinds of signs, and standing there on that bank, and Miriam with that tambourine, beating and shouting, and jumping, and Moses singing in the Spirit. Why, they wasn't but about three days away from the glory land. They didn't know they had forty years ahead of them yet. Neither did Pentecost know when the Holy Ghost first fell on them.
But you see, where they made their rashal mistake was Exodus 19, when they got away from grace that God had already provided for them, and got them a prophet, and a Pillar of Fire, and a sacrifice, and doing signs and wonders; grace had provided that, but they wanted something to do themselves. They had to have something to make themselves doctors of divinity, so they wanted a law. And there's where they died, and they stayed right there till all the old fighters died out. That's right. Then God come, and took a new bunch, and crossed over Jordan with them then.

L-80 Pentecost has stayed in the wilderness today, the same thing wandering around and around the same hill. Did you ever think what they did? Married the young, buried the old, kissed the babies, and raised crops, and prospered. And that's all right. But, brother, there's a promised land yonder, where all things are possible to him that believes. Every promise in the Book belongs to the church. Christ is the Word to come into the heart of a person and manifest that Word. See?
We just satisfied, "Well, I spoke in tongues." That's--that's good. "See, Brother Branham, I got it." And acting the way you do? I doubt it. "By their fruits you shall know them." The water falls on the wheat and on the weeds too, you know. By their fruit they're known. Now, we see that.

L-81 Now, that's what we need, is a revival. We need a--not a--not a--just a ecclesiastical gathering, but a revival. (Don't get excited. That was my watch alarm, and I--telling me that I--in the church for the first time, usually I don't preach very long, about six hours. But this time I had the alarm up there, and I had a watch in front of me. So it's all right. I got a little alarm watch that usually tells me it's time to shut off.) So then, there's so much to say, so much to be done. Got a nice group of people here.
Why can't we have it? Why can't Christ be the same to us? Why can't He heal the sick? Just did it. Here the other night at Grass Valley I seen every wheelchair, everything there was in there, cleaned completely up, not a feeble person among us. Walked right out of there, with not one feeble person. That's right. They set still, and listened till they caught it. And then when they caught it, there it went, and there wasn't a feeble person among them, about four or five times this size a group--and many times, in a big auditorium. So then, now notice, it can be done. But you see, you've got to be patiently; you've got to be willing; and you've got to have Christ. Now, wait, just at the last now.

L-82 Peter got all excited and he said, "Let--let--let us..." You know, the supernatural usually makes people excited. You know, Israel got excited down there. Instead of coming under the atonement, there was an uncircumcised group went with them--a mixed multitude, the Bible calls it. It caused trouble a little later on. The supernatural had been done, and there was a mixed multitude that went with them.
That's the same thing's happened to this revival, halfway believers. There's only three classes of people in the world. That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers, and they set in every group. So you find it. That's it. So then, we watch. Here it was.


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