<TITLE>05. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 Now, what if that little fish would... He never seen daylight. What if he would try to come up through the water. He couldn't do it. He's pressurized for that depths of the sea. If he'd come up he would explode.
We are pressurized for the earth. We cannot go... A little piece up and we would explode. That's right. But now, what if that little fish could ever become me, would I ever want to go back in that midnight-ink down there, and ever be that kind of an animal again, with them kind of sights or senses? No, sir. I'd want to be a human.
Now, multiply that by a hundred million, and then God has to change this mortal being that we are. We're repressurized and taken up into His Presence where it's a--we never want to have this kind of a thing again: far beyond. We're changed from the creature.

L-19 Listen, my dear friends, you people here. I'm not here because of no place to go. I'm here because I felt led to come here. Here sets the manager with a book full of places, world around. See? But I felt led to come here. I come here through difficult. The brethren here, as we was in the meeting the other morning, I hope you caught what was going on in the breakfast. And there, seeing under difficult, they brought me here, knowing that even before I left home, by vision seeing it.
And we're here because that God's got something here. This morning, about eight o'clock this morning, I was caught away in a vision, and seen... I was worried about the meeting, and I seen a woman come before me and set down.
And she said, "It's wonderful above anything that we can think."
And I thought, "What is this?"
And I heard Him speak to me, said, "Just keep pressing on. Don't fear. Keep moving on." So I know. I know beyond any shadow of doubt. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. There's something fixing to happen, or going on here. You're either going to see a great spontaneous revival, or you're going to see a judgment, or there's somebody that He's seeking for. There's something. I don't know. But He's pleased with doing what we're doing right now. Keep pulling every one you can, and try our best. That's all we know. And if you believe me to be His servant, remember that's in the Name of the Lord. Now, simple--trying to make it simple, keep it that way...

L-20 Here not long ago, a very fine religious man with a great standing in this nation. And he called me into his room, and he said, "Reverend Branham, I want to say something to you."
And I said, "Yes, sir. Say on."
And he said, "I admire you as a servant of Christ, and that I believe you are."
I said, "Thank you, sir. I can pay the compliments to you. We're two different ideas, but yet we recognize one another as servants of Christ."
He said, "I brought you in here to pray for you."
"Thank you, sir." I said, "I certainly need it."
And he said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "Why don't you quit picking on them people?"
I said, "What do you mean, sir?"
Said, "You're going on to them women about bobbing off their hair, wearing immoral clothes, and their husbands how little they are to let their wo--wives do such things, and carrying on like that." Said, "The people regard you as a prophet."
I said, "Did you ever hear me say I was?"
He said, "No, but the people regard you as that." Said, "You see, you ought to be teaching those people how to receive great spiritual gifts, and be lifted up, and have heavenly things like that, and great manifestations of the Spirit. You ought to be teaching that, instead about their bobbed hair, and wearing clothes the way they do."
I said, "Sir, if they can't understand their ABC's, how am I going to teach them algebra?" That's right. Not the common decency to act upon the Word of God... You know what ABC stands for? Always believe Christ, and He is the Word. That's right. Yes.


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