<TITLE>06. Par 51-61</TITLE>L-51   My boy, Billy, the other day, give me a camera. And he showed me a--an object. He said, "Daddy, take that picture out there." Well, it's a little 35mm Petra. And I took up the little camera and looked at the object. There was about three of them objects standing out there, a Saguaro cactus. I could see one stalk, two stalks, three stalk. And I took it down again, looked, there was only one stalk. I put it back again, it looked like there was three stalks.

L-52 Well, that's just the way, sometimes, we get out of focus. Got a range Finder. And we try to put something of God way back somewhere else, and something another, maybe we haven't used our range Finder. Let the Holy Spirit get our ideas away from ourself and our church theology, and let the range Finder come in and connect us, you'll not see three or four. You'll see one object, of God. See?

L-53   Looking through the same camera, a man can see something, but his own intelligence tells him there's only one stalk out there. See?

L-54 But that's the way the Holy Spirit does, if we'll just let It have Its way. It'll take the Word Itself and bring It into focus, to where we'll see what we're looking at then. And then you'll find out, maybe, if people that are trying to show you something, is not so wrong, after all, you see; if you'll just let the range Finder start, the Word Itself, begin to show the Word in manifestation. Amen. It'll--it'll do it if you'll just let it. See? But you got to use the range Finder, to get your--your... If it hit the zero mark once, it'll hit it again.

L-55   I--I love to--to shoot, and--and the targets. And here not long ago, I was squirrel hunting down in Kentucky. There was... I had a little model-75 rifle. It sounds... I hope it don't sound sacrilegious to you, to say this in a sermon, but I--I will tell you. I'm trying to make a point. And this little rifle, I trained it in. And I've dealt and fooled with guns since a little kid. I--I love them. And I--I had this little model-75 till I could just, every time, hit a squirrel's eye at fifty yards with it.

L-56 I had a paper from the range down there, signed up, that, "Driving nine bullets through the same hole, at fifty yards, on a rainy, windy day." And I got it signed up and notarized. And that was the Lord helping me, of course, to do that. That's unusual.

L-57   And I started to shoot the squirrel. I find out, I hit him somewhere else besides in the eye. I got nervous. I tried again, on paper, and it wouldn't hit the target. It would hit within, oh, quarter of an inch, or a half-inch, something, at fifty yards. But I knowed it would do better than that. I done everything to the gun that I knowed how to do, and nothing seemed to--to fix it up right.

L-58   So I wrapped it up in the box and sent it back to Winchester Company for examination, for rebedding. They wrote me a nice letter I have, my file at home. And it said--said, "Rev. Branham," said, "that--that rifle will group an inch at twenty-five yards." Said, "It's just a model-75." Said, "It's not a target gun. It's just a little plinker." And said, "You'll never get any better than that." Now, that was the Winchester Company that made the gun, said, "An inch at twenty-five yards," and I drove nine straight holes at fifty yards.

L-59 Now, here's my thought. My wife said, "Now look, Bill," she said, "if that company who made the rifle will just say that, and it won't do no better than that, then who are you to say that."

L-60 I said, "Honey, here is what it is. I don't care what the company says. I've seen it do it, and I know it'll do it."

L-61   And I set down there, when the other brethren were shooting at squirrels. Anywhere they wanted to hit them was all right, mid-center, back, or anywhere. I set under a tree and was crying. I said, "God, I'm so nervous. I can't hold myself together. Why did You make me a little, nervous fellow like this?" And just...


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