<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 I want to make it in a little drama like a testimony. How many likes testimonies? Oh, my. Brother Eddie told me, he said, "You know, Brother Branham, after the meetings are over out there," said, "My Indian brethren said they'll get together and start testifying. And a meeting will break right out among them, and they'll all go over..." And said, "Then they quieten down after while. Then somebody else get up and testify, and out breaks the meeting again." And said, "They just stay there. As long as the Spirit's there, they stay."
That's real good--good sound philosophy, not philosophy, but good sense--it's--it's staying with the Spirit. You know, wherever the Spirit of God moved, that Pillar of Fire, wherever It moved, then the children of Israel went with It. And when It moved out of the Catholic church, back hundreds of years ago, Luther saw It, and he went with It. But then he built an organization under It. God moved right out from under the organization.
And then Wesley saw it, in England, and he built a church called the Wesleyan church. After His death--him, and--and Whitfield, and--and Asbury, and those, they built the organization, and God moved right out of it. And a group of people called the Pentecostals, they saw It, and away they went. But what they did, they done the same thing: built an organization right under it. And God just moves right out from under the organization, keeps going on. Follow the fire. Now, I--I pray that God's rich blessings on you.

L-27 It must have been about this time of the evening. The sun was going down. It had been a great day, and the big fisherman, those great big shoulders, was pushing that boat off the bank. And when he got the stern off, why he climbed aboard, and set down by the side of his brother, Andrew.
Now, in those days they didn't have a boat like we were in today, with a engine in it that went along. They had oars, and they called it a ship. Sometimes they had a sail up. And if the winds were blowing, they could sail, and tack, as you fishermen know.
But then, it's always a mystery to me how that you, by that sail, you can control the wind--go right smack in the face of the wind and the wind, taking you forward right in the face of it. It's just the way you set your sails. That's the way about faith too. If you just know how to pull your sails of faith around, it'll do something for you, right in the face of difficult, it drive you right on through it, if you just know. Now, you sailors out here know what I'm speaking of. Notice.

L-28 Then he took his oars... They had big long oars, and they oared their boat. And they would set down and oar a few times, then wave back on the bank to the people on the bank. They'd just had a great meeting that afternoon. Oh, there was a marvelous meeting. Great things had been done, and the people were so happy, till they were standing on the bank hollering, "Good-bye. Come back and see us again."
Don't you... When you got a good meeting like that, brother, don't you hate to leave it? Just like I hate to think this being our last night here for a while: just hate to leave. Wish we had about two or three weeks to stay here. And--and when they were leaving, they felt the same way about those brethren, and they were waving, "Good-bye. Bring Him back. Come back and stay with us again. We want to see you over here."


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