<TITLE>02. Par 10-21</TITLE>L-10 But, you see, his inspiration, he knowed that a snake was little, and lowdown, and sneaking. So he said, "You generation of snakes, who has warned you to flee from the wrath that's to come? Don't begin to say within yourselves, that, 'We belong to this, or that,' for I say unto you, that God is able of these rocks, stones," what he had seen in the wilderness and on the bank, "to raise up children unto Abraham. Also, the axe is laid at the root of the tree." What he had seen. "Every tree," like in the wilderness, "didn't bring forth fruit," that's what he used for firewood. See, "And laid at the root of the tree! And if it don't bring forth good fruit, it's hewed down and cast into the fire." See, his inspiration followed nature.

L-11 And--and if you'd watch nature real close, you won't get too far from the Word, because God is in nature. I think, the last time I was down here on the West Coast, I preached on the four ways of seeing God; God in His Son, God in His Word, God in nature, and so forth.

L-12   Now if we notice everything that God made in nature, being I'm going to speak that way, on natural things typing spiritual things, it... because it was made of things which does not appear. It was the Word. Now we take for instance like...

L-13 A few months ago, I was asked to preach a sermon, a funeral sermon, for a dear old friend of mine. Many of you read my book, and you remember where I... a boy that was... one that belonged to some of the boy scouts, or something, and he... I asked him to save him my... save me his old cow-... or--or scout suit, when he wore it out. Well, he saved me one legging. You remember it, in the book. And I put it on. Lloyd Ford, his mother died recently, about eighty-five years old, very precious friend of mine. And Lloyd, being single yet, and stayed with his mother, he came to me. And he said, "Brother Bill." That's how he knew me. We, I called him Lloyd, he called me Bill.
And I said, "What do you want, Brother Lloyd?"
He said, "Will you--will you preach mother's funeral?"

L-14 I said, "I'd be glad to do it. It would be like my own mother, though." I said, "She has cooked me so many meals, and things, and been so sweet to me."

L-15 He said, "I want you to say those last words over her, Brother Branham."

L-16 I said, "What would you--what would you want me to say, Lloyd?"

L-17 He said, "One thing I want you to do. Just assure my people, assure us of her resurrection."

L-18   So I took the text from something over in Job, of how that Job was watching nature. And I said, in my...

L-19 Death of my own mother, my own mother that just died about two years ago. My young sister had just been saved, a little while, and she called me up when she knew mother was going. And she said, "Bill, what can I do?" Said, "I just can't stand it no longer, standing there looking upon my mother."
I said, "It's the sweetest sight I ever seen."
She said, "How can you say that, and, your mother?"

L-20 "Oh," I said, "she is ready to go, and wanting to go. She is old, and she's ready to pass from this life."

L-21 I said to her, "Mother, does Jesus still mean to you... He did the day you got the Holy Ghost?"
She would say, "Yes." When, and I'd...
When she couldn't do it no more, I said, "Smile."


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