<TITLE>17. Par 223-234</TITLE>L-223   No wonder that great Saint Paul could stand, when they was building a place there to cut his head off with. He said, "O death, where is your stinger? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Yes.

L-224 Oh, when a man once catches that in view, everything else is secondarily. Your business is secondarily, everything else. No, it doesn't matter too much. You're just only going to stay here for a short time, but That's first. "What will it profit a man if he loses, gains the whole world, and loses his soul?"

L-225   Zacchaeus! Oh, Zacchaeus! Maybe it isn't Rebekah at home, praying, but maybe a mother that's done passed beyond the veil. Her prayers are still laying on the altar of God. If that's so, Zacchaeus, come out from behind those sycamore leaves tonight: that crown of that denominational creed that you're holding onto, without the New Birth; that something that you are holding onto, and you've never had any evidence that God was in it. He knows right where you're setting. Why don't you do it?
Let's bow our heads just a moment.

L-226   Almighty God, the great and terrible Jehovah Who roared off of Mount Sinai, even till the people said, "Let Moses speak and not God, or we die." Speak tonight, our Heavenly Father, in mercy and forgiveness, into the heart of the people that doesn't know You. And let them know that this is the time. That, they are maybe hiding behind their business. There may be many businessmen here, Father, that--that doesn't really know You. Maybe they do belong to church, and we say nothing evil against that. But they've never been born again. They don't know really what it is.

L-227 And we know that not one tittle or one jot shall in no wise ever pass from Your Word. You said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not." And You said, "Except a man be born again, of water and Spirit, he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom." I pray, Father, that You'll speak to hearts tonight just at this time. Let men and women think seriously, just at this moment, knowing that we're living in the closing hours.

L-228   Israel is in her homeland, the great calendar of God. She is returning back, looking, "Where is the Messiah?"

L-229 We know that when Joseph made hisself known to his brothers, that he dismissed the Gentiles from the courts. His wife and children were in the palace. There must be a taking away of the Gentile, that Israel might be made known. Then there'll come a time of a wailing and screaming and crying, "Where did You get those scars?"

L-230 He said, "In the hands of My friend. From My friends I have got these scars in My hand," in the house where He was really should be accepted, when He makes Hisself known to Israel again.

L-231 God, while the Gentiles has a chance, may they repent quickly and come to You.

L-232   While we have our heads bowed, Zacchaeus, I want you to be real honest just a moment, and Rebekahs, too. In this little broke-up Message, if there has been something speak to your heart and said, "I've never received that experience of--of the Holy Spirit, the full Gospel, but I'd like to have it. I want you to remember me in prayer, Brother Branham. I'm just going to raise my hand, not to you, but to God." And say, "Pray for me." And I'll finish the prayer, remembering you. God bless you. God bless you, you, you, you, dozens of hands.

L-233 You say, "Does that do any good, Brother Branham?" Certainly. "Why is it?"

L-234 You see, science tells you that you can't raise your hand, actually. Cause, why? The gravitation of the earth would hold your hand down. But you've got a spirit of life in you. And that life that's in you, another Life came to it and said, "You're wrong."


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