<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>64-0125, Turn On The Light, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 59 min
L-1      All right. Is this the... [A brother says, "This is your microphone."--Ed.] This is the main one? Thank you, sir. ["This is the live microphone."] Yes, sir. All right. I see they was getting a little rebound back there, and so... Morning, friends. Can you hear me all right back there? [Congregation says, "Yes."] That stopped it. Thank you.

L-2 I am certainly a privileged person, this morning, to come here at this platform, after such noble testimonies has been given; to try to--to place just a little more with what they have said, to bring blessings to us as we've enjoyed this morning. Now, I noticed some of them were very...

L-3 [The amplification system rebounds a sound. A brother says, "I think we're going to have to put it, this, in the middle, Brother Branham."--Ed.] All right, sir. Is that better?

L-4   With some of the man here, how they have spoke, and most every one... Well, everyone up here had a real bright, brilliant testimony. How I appreciate that, that fine testimony for the Lord!
Now we're going to approach the Word.

L-5 And I, this week, I have purposed in my heart not to keep people these two or three hours, setting, listening to me. I tell you why I--I do that, friends. I'm uneducated, and I only can speak by inspiration. Now, a man that's got an education, when he is inspired, too; but he can explain what he's talking about, by his education, draw out words that will let the people know what he's talking about. Without an education, I have to take symbols of nature and express through the inspiration that I have. And that makes it pretty hard, sometimes, for the people to really to understand. We find that I was very disturbed about it until I found in the Bible that God did the same manner, same ways.

L-6   We notice, like John the Baptist, when we don't have any record of his education, and then, when he--when he come out of the wilderness, he begin to speak to the--the... his congregation, church of that day. And we notice how he expressed it. He said, "You generation of snakes." See, that's what he was used to, nature and the wilderness; other words, something that's slippery and slimy, and deceiving. Now, some other man might have been able to have brought down some word that would have said "impostors" or some word he could have used to express that. But John used the word "snake." I think everybody understood what he talked about.

L-7 So then he said, "Don't begin to think to say within yourselves, that, "we belong to this and we belong to that," cause I tell you, God is able of these rocks here," see, see, not some other great some. "God is able of these stones." He expressed it in nature

L-8 And, also, "The ax is laid to the root of the tree." Some good educated brother, with that same inspiration, might have said, "He will annihilate." He said, "The ax is at the root of the tree." That annihilates it, anyhow, see, so he--he knew that it was. He just had those expressions, for perhaps he never had any schooling.
Let us bow our heads just a moment.

L-9 I have requests here for prayer. Which, that is my ministry, praying for the sick. I've got some requests in here, some very outstanding requests. And I know there is many in here. And if there is some, this morning, that would like to be remembered? Well, if you'll just raise up your hands to God, say, "I..." Now just hold your requests while we pray.


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