<TITLE>20. Par 193-202</TITLE>L-193 Everybody reverent, inside and out, in the basements and wherever. This is a solemn time. This is a time to be thankful. This is a time that you thank God at your table, today, you people, I hope you did, for the food that He had give you. The dead substance, that something died so you could live, and you thank God for raising it up for you to live by.

L-194   Now, tonight, why don't you accept, not that natural life which has to go back with the dead substance to the earth, but why don't you accept the Eternal Life, where He gave something, raised it up, His Own Son; that you could be conformed unto His Own image, by the renewing of your spirit, to take away yours and to receive His, which is the Token that you have Life. And He'll pass over you and will raise you up at the day of the resurrection.

L-195 This would be a real thanksgiving. This would show your gratefulness to God Who made a way for you, and placed Eternal Life before you, upon His Own table, and is inviting you to It tonight. How could you turn It away? How could you sit at the table and be grateful for natural foods, in a tradition that our pilgrim fathers did, on a Thanksgiving Day; why not now when it's made so clear to you, tonight, by this simple little way of preaching it?

L-196   Why don't you accept it now, and say, "I want that kind of Life, Brother Branham. I'll accept that. Jesus died for me. And I, maybe I've joined church, I've had a creed; but really to see the Life of Christ just pulsating me, till the world is dead, and He living His Life in me like He lived it here on earth, I don't see it, Brother Branham. And I want to have it. I want to be sure."

L-197 You can't afford to take a chance. We're too late now. We're getting too late for these chances. Let's receive It now.

L-198 Now, I cannot bring people to this altar. I cannot do it, there is not enough of room here. But altar calls is a tradition, again. Altar calls started in the days of Wesley. The real, "As many as believed was baptized," the Bible said.

L-199   How many in here, that I can see visibly, up in the balconies, around in the corridors, and up-and-down the walls, and in the pews, I don't know how many is outside or down into the basement. But how many of you, that wants that Token, the Holy Spirit in your life, that'll display Itself right before you? Right before the cults and things of this world, that you can see that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, the Blood has been applied. Would you raise your hands, and say, "Brother Branham, I now, by raising my hand, signify to God, I want that in my life. Pray for me, Brother Branham."

L-200 There is twenty hands or more, I guess, up. Is there more? Just put it up. If I don't even see it, He will. Way up in the balcony, up in the glassed-in rooms up there, if you will just raise your hands, God will see you. On the outside, God will see you. Down in the--the auditorium downstairs, God will see you if you'll raise your hands.

L-201   Brother, sister, now to you people who has received Christ years ago, and maybe you feel that--that you have received that Token. I hope that it's right. If you have, you don't have to worry about it. It reflects Itself. How could I keep from being Beethoven if he lived in me? If Christ is in you, just look at yourself in God's mirror here, the Bible. See what some Bible character looked like, see if you picture up with Daniel, with Ezekiel, with the Christians of the early Church. See if you picture up with them. Are you worldly? Do you love the world or the things of the world? Has all that died and you become a new creature?

L-202 Back over to my right, back into the wing here, would you lift your hands, and say, "Remember me, Brother Branham, I truly want to display that Token. I want It in my life. I must have It." God bless you. God bless you, and you. Many of you, yes, the Lord sees you. God bless you.


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