<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-13-6 Like I was preaching not long ago on the little boy out on the ship, you know, and--and the old captain was dying; he was sick. And he asked if there wasn't a Bible on board. And they caught the little boy that had the Bible, and he come and read Isaiah 53:5. "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity." and he said, "Let the--let me tell you, Captain, how that my mother used to read it." Said, "Here's the way she wrote it. 'He was wounded for Willy Pruitt's iniquity; and He was chastised for Willy Pruitt, and all these things that He was done was for Willy Pruitt." (That was his name.)
The old captain said, "I like that. Could you read my name in it?"
He said, "I'll try." And he said, "He was wounded for John Quartz' transgressions. He was bruised for John Quartz' iniquity, and with His stripes John Quartz was healed."
He said, "I see it." And the Lord healed him.
See, read your name in it. He was wounded for William Branham's transgressions. He was bruised for William Branham's iniquity. He did that for me and He did that for you. Read your name into it.

L-14-2 Oh, that's the way I like to bring the Scriptures to my--my people, is what He did for somebody else that obeyed Him; what He did to somebody else that was true to the cause; and what He did to somebody else that was untrue for the cause, then you read your name in it. If you'd have been there, what stand would you have took? And remember, you've got the privilege today to take the same kind of stand.

L-14-3 When Noah, on the reproach of the Word that God spoke to him... Noah, there was a reproach. Noah lived in a scientific age, where there was a scientific achievement that they were able to manufacture that were beyond anything that we've manufactured today. They were brighter, more intelligent. Their science was far advanced to ours. And just remember, he had to stand the reproach of the Word that he preached a hundred and twenty years in the face of scoffers. Their great scientific ways proved to them that there was no rain in the skies. But yet, Noah had heard the Word of the Lord, and It was contrary to their conception of it. So before his life could be saved, he must stand in the face and bear the reproach that these scoffers reproached him by.

L-14-4 Oh, there's no doubt they must have felt sorry for the poor old preacher. They didn't have him put away or anything, because maybe there wasn't many houses of that type in that day. He was harmless. He wasn't going to hurt nobody, so they just let him alone. "Go ahead, you old fanatic, up there on the side of that hill, building a ship way out here where there's no water. And, oh, the poor old fellow." But they was saying, "Where are you going to get your water to float your boat, Noah?"
"It's coming down out of the skies."
"Nonsense, we can shoot the moon and the stars with radar," or whatever they had. "There's no rain up there."
But he said, "God said He was going to put some up there."
"How's He going to do it?"
"That's His business. Only thing I'm supposed to do is warn you to get out of here."
Just about the same now. "Where's the fire coming from?" Brother, it's a little plainer today than it was for Noah's time. We already see where it's at, just ready to strike off, that's all. Science has already... There's no excuse this time at all, 'cause science has already found it. Yes, sir.


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