<TITLE>16. Par 186-197</TITLE>L-186 Because, when that Pillar of Fire come down at Pentecost, you notice, the Bible said, "Cloven tongues like Fire sat upon them." What was it? That Pillar of Fire separating Itself, and dividing Himself amongst His people. What a gracious thing! See? God in you? See? God in His people. Now notice.

L-187   Someone says now, in the church tonight, would say this. People today, if would say, "If we only could know He is here with us. Is there any way?"

L-188 You see, they could look at Him. Now, listen close now, 'fore we call the prayer line. They could look at Him and say, "There He lays, on the boat. Now, He's there."

L-189 Now, if we only had some way to do something like that. If we could just look at Him somewhere, we could say, "There He is, right there."

L-190 Now, but He is that close. He is even closer. "For I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Isn't that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He's closer than He was to them, 'cause they had to go across the--the deck of the boat, and back to the back, and wake Him up. You don't have to do that. Oh, my! Whew! Oh! I feel religious right now. I just begin to feel real good, right now. Oh!

L-191 Hebrews 13:8 says, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." And He said again, "Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end, the evening time." Preached on last night. "At the evening time, I'll still be there." Again, "I will never leave you. No matter what the boat is doing, how much rocking and rolling they're doing, or anything else, I'll be with you, be with you to the end time, never leave you."
You say, "How can this be, Brother Branham?"

L-192   Saint John, the 12th... the 14th chapter, the 12th verse, said that He would prove it. See? "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."

L-193 You say, "I wish you could prove and show me that He is just as He always was. If you could prove it to me!"

L-194 Well, here is where He challenged, the proof. "He that believeth on Me, the things that I do." In other words, you will be an amateur Messiah, Messiahette. That's exactly right. For if His Life be in you, it ain't you; it's Him. See? And you are ordained to carry His work on. "He that believeth on Me, I'll prove that I am Messiah. And He that believeth on me will do the same thing." Now, that, He can't lie and be what you think He is, and what I know He is, and you believe He is, too. See?

L-195   You know what He's doing? He is here tonight, waiting to be proved. That's right. You know what we ought to do? We ought to do like they. Wake Jesus that's in us. Wake Jesus in our own lives: the God that set our souls afire with the Holy Ghost; the God that taken these blinded eyes of mine, opened them up; the God that raised me off of a death bed. The God that I seen bring the dead back, after being dead for hours; the doctor pronounced "dead," and write a statement to it, five different times. Waken that God. Waken Him up. We ought to call on Jesus and wake Him, and call Him on the scene. We have need of Him. Yes, sir.

L-196   Then, call Him, to confirm His Word. If we wake Him up, get Him stirred up, in us, till your own doubts and flusteration has passed away. Now call on Him and say, "Lord, You promised, a little while and the world would see You no more. And I'm not of the world. You prayed that I'd not be of the world, and I'm not of the world. I'm yours. And You said, 'The world will see Me no more, yet you'll see Me.' Uh-huh. 'You'll see me.' Lord, I want to disturb You. I want to arouse You, out of my own sleeping body, my own sleeping heart, of these realities." Waken Jesus. "Come to me." Then the doubts and fears will cease.

L-197 All the flusterations and worry, about, "Oh, the doctor said this, and that he going to do this. And I--I--I don't know what I'm going to do. I--I..." It'll just all cease, 'cause He's God. He speaks, and everything else keeps still.


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