<TITLE>16. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 It reminds me of a article I read not long ago (in closing). There was a man and his wife going to separate. They begin fussing, spatting, quarreling at one another. They just couldn't get along. They couldn't hardly live in the same house together. So they decided to divorce, and they applied for the divorce. Then they made agreement they'd meet at the house and would divide their things so it wouldn't have to go through the court.
And they met in one room and divided what was in that room, and the next room, divided what was in that room. And finally, they come to a place that... They went up in the attic and got an old trunk down. And when they begin to take little articles out of the trunk and laid it one side or another, looking across at one another, "Don't you cheat me. I'll have you sued if you do that," just like some Christian traditions do.
And after while they run into a little white shoe. And the daddy picked it up, and the mother put her hand on it. They looked at one another. In a few moments they was in one another's arms. What? A little girl that once belonged to them, that was something they had in common. It was all over; divorce was annulled. They were in one another's arms again. They had something in common.
And when the Baptists, and Methodists, and Oneness, and Twoness, and Threeness, brethren, when we can come to the cross, and see something that we got in common... It's the Blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us. We can put our arms around Him, and He around us, and can fellowship together under the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's the only way I know. Let's pray.

L-53 Lord Jesus, I never found a little shoe, but I found a Saviour one day. And I loved Him, and He loved me. And when I see these traditions going out, seemingly not having the faith, and pulling people away from that real, the fundamental foundation of Christianity, fellowship through the Blood, then my heart aches.
And I--I've tried hard these years, Lord. I'm beginning to get aged now. But I'm not tired. I'm still in love, Lord. I love You, and I love my brother, because that You love him too. And may I be privileged to live to see the day when we all can meet around the cross and the fussing will be over then. The chaff will be burned, but the wheat will be gathered to the garner. Grant it, Lord.
And if there be some in here tonight, Father, that has never thought on this, and maybe trusted in some creed, or trusted in some emotion, but see that through the--the very reflection of what's inside of them by the way they live, and act, and do, they feel the burden of guilt, may I have the privilege, Lord, tonight, leading them down to the cross? Grant it, Lord. I want to show them where there's a fountain where we can stand together. I commit them to You, Lord.

L-54 And while you have your heads bowed, do you feel that weight that you'd like to get rid of? Is it---is it crushing you inside of you? Yet you tried to join church, you've tried to do good, but yet you just couldn't get rid of it? Raise up your hand. I won't ask you to come up.
God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Oh, my. God bless you. God bless you, all over the building.
"I feel that weight, Brother Branham. Oh, I--I've tried to dance it away from me. I've tried to shout it away from me. I've tried to join church and get away from it. But, Brother Branham, it's still there."
Sweetly now, let's come down to Calvary, not go down to some organization, not go down to some system, but let's go down to Calvary, there both of us together put our hands on the Sacrifice. We'll have things in common then.
You notice in the healing lines? He's never respected whether they were Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian. Why? He was wounded for their transgressions; with His stripes they were healed. He's the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world, which we're a part of. Won't you receive it now while we pray?


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