<TITLE>24. Par 241-254</TITLE>L-241 Maybe, Lord, after this testimony meeting I've talked about, maybe there'll come such a hunger over the people's hearts, if You'll just declare Yourself again tonight among the people. Then they'll go away from here, and Sunday morning they'll pack those churches and testify. They'll leave here, go to their neighbors, and start winning souls, and trying, getting down with their neighbors, and praying with them, and going, visit the hospitals, the sick and afflicted, and telling them that Jesus Christ is alive forevermore. Grant it, Lord. Hear our prayer.

L-242 This is our objective of being here, Lord. And You know the motives in our heart. And so we pray that You'll receive it, Father, as we ask this blessing in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.

L-243   Now, real quietly. Now, we don't have a clock. Which one of you brothers? I broke my watch. And what time is it? Just tell me. [A brother says, "Seven after ten."--Ed.] Oh, I'm later than ever. Tomorrow is Saturday. I'm sorry. I seen two or three get up, to go out, and I--I know I had stayed too long. That was... My, you're such a nice people! I just hate to think I'm going to have to leave you tonight. That's true, in my heart. I'm... If I'm a hypocrite, I don't know it. But I like people.

L-244 When I was a little old boy, raised up, nobody cared for me. Nobody liked me. And I joined the church, was ordained, the Missionary Baptist church. I always had an idea that God was God. And I was kind of a black sheep, so to say, there.

L-245 Dr. Davis used to tell me, "Billy, you'll turn out to be a holy-roller," and all that.

L-246   But, still, I believed; if God ever was God, He is still God. And I just... My convictions led me that way, 'cause I had seen That when I was a little boy. And many of you has read my book, my life story, and things. And God, Heaven, knows it's true. And I knowed there was something there. I could see It, that Light. It talked to me, and since I was a little baby boy, and I knowed it was true.
And he told me, said, "Oh, you just had a dream."

L-247 I said, "If that's the way it is, I'll just give up my fellowship card."

L-248 He said, "Oh, don't think that way. But," said, "you'll get over it, Billy."

L-249 But I haven't, yet, and I hope I never do. This is it. And Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, "This is That." If this isn't That, just let me keep this till That comes then, because I love this. And I pray that God will let every person feel like that.

L-250 And, friends, I'm telling you what is the Truth. So far... Here lays this Bible. I've never closed it, yet. So help me, with this Bible on my heart, that I'm telling you the honest Truth.

L-251   And I do believe that it's Jesus Christ, in the form of the Holy Spirit, see, God the Holy Spirit coming down in the Name of Jesus Christ, to vindicate that we're in the last days; and His Spirit is on earth, among His people. And that Light up there, I believe, with all my heart, that that's the same Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel through the wilderness. I believe It was the same One was upon Jesus Christ, the same when He went away. And that's the same One that put the eyes of Saul out, on the road to Damascus, when he cried "Lord, Who are You?" And He said, "I'm Jesus," See? I believe it's the same thing. It does the same works.

L-252 So, it couldn't be me. Just think, I'm... I don't even have a seventh-grade education. I know nothing about, well, any--any education, no more than just barely can read the Bible. But I know Him.

L-253 Someone said, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you don't know your Bible."

L-254 I said, "But I know the Author real well. And He will--He will let me know His Book, as He wants to reveal It to me."


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