<TITLE>17. Par 192-203</TITLE>L-192 There was another lady laying there, with her lips down, looked at me with a... like she could run through me, and her and her son. She was lying on the bed; going to an operation, the day before. And I said... And I seen her go, looking at her son, looking over at me.

L-193 And--and I said, "Do you mind if we have a word of prayer?"
She said, "Pull that curtain."
I said, "Well, I... Are you a believer?"
She said, "I said, 'Pull that curtain.'"
I said, "I just asked you."
She said, "I'll give you to understand, we are Methodist."
I said, "Well, that certainly expresses it then, see." See?

L-194 What was it? She didn't want to see some other person, that poor, backslidden woman come back to God. Now, she had been a Methodist, it'd been different, you see. Didn't remember Jesus there, you see. She just remembered her creed.

L-195 Just remember. All right. Oh, what a horrible thing it'll be in that Day of the Judgment.

L-196   Few weeks ago I was riding on an elevator in Louisville. I was going up for an examination, a physical examination, to a doctor friend of mine, to get a--a--a pass, so if I want to go overseas with Brother Rowe and them right away. And so I thought I'd take my physical while I had a chance, and I went up.

L-197 There--there was some men with us, going up on the floor. We went way up, about eight floors, in Louisville, and at a building, and, so, the Heyburn building. And when I was up just about as high as we could get, to stop, these... One of these fellows was drinking a little, I think. He looked around, said, "Well, boys, I guess this is as high as we'll ever get." Said, "We better get off." I never said nothing. He didn't know I was a preacher. So, I just waited to get off.

L-198 I said, "Just a minute. That remark you made." I said, "If we're trusting in our own merits, this is as high as we'll ever get, but," I said, "if we'll trust in Jesus! Remember Him." Amen.

L-199 We can go higher, when we pass, as the Brother Outlaw singers said the other night, Jupiter, Venus, Neptune, Mars, the Milky White Way, and go on, and on, and on. There's no difference. Beyond every solar system, into the heavens of Heaven! I'm glad for that.

L-200 Just remember that He went on and above such things as that. Yes. If we're trusting in our merits, we're certainly lost. But if we trust in His merits, we're saved.

L-201   Oh, we can remember Jesus in His grace, that He lifted us up and promised it, that, even now, right now, we don't have to be earth bound. See? We're not earth bound now. We're Heaven bound. "We're already dead. Our lives are hid in Him, through Christ." And we're raised with Him; not, we're not--we're not dead with Him. "We are raised with Him, and we're setting in Heavenly places."

L-202 Remembering Him, setting in Heavenly places! "When, Brother Branham?" Right now. Yes. We won't be raised with Him. We're already raised with Him. This is the Firstfruits of our resurrection: passed from death unto Life, and alive forevermore; setting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus, already raised with Him from the dead. Yes. What a glorious thing it is to be setting in Heavenly places with--with Jesus Christ, the Son of God! Yes, sir. We can remember Him now, and all of His promises that He made us, while we're setting right here now.

L-203   I was looking at that clock back there, and I thought "My, I'm doing real well. I'm getting done here now, seven o'clock." I had about three more pages of notes, and I pushed them back under there. When I looked down at my watch, and seen it wasn't seven o'clock. So I thought, "I'm doing real well." Where have I been? Have I been lost all this time? I knowed I--I felt awful good, but I didn't know I felt that good. And--and I'd... I kept looking at that clock, and I thought there is something wrong, somewhere.


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