<TITLE>14. Par 139-148</TITLE>L-139 So Joshua said, "I stilled the people. Said, 'I don't care how great they seem to be, how much opposition, how much fanatically it seems! Remember, God said, when we were in Egypt, "I have given you this land. I give it to you."'"

L-140 Now he isn't just going in there, sweep it out and plaster the walls, and tell you come in and get you a Morris chair and sit down, say, "We'll have the maids to fix the bed for you." He don't do it that way. You've... Joshua was told by God, "Everywhere the soles of your feet steps, that I've given you." Footsteps meant possession. And every promise in the Book is to believers, but you've got to make footprints through It. You got to fight every inch of the way. You haven't got no fight in you, then get out of the game.

L-141   I went in here, not long ago, I believe it was in this state. Georgia Tech, or somewhere up there, was having a... I don't know--know now, that might have been in the East. I went into a football stadium, I seen a little--a little sign that always kind of inspired me. Had a sign up over the door, when I come out from the dressing rooms. In there it had a sign, said, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight that's in the dog." And that's right.

L-142 It--it ain't how much D.D.D., Ph. D., LL.D., you got. It's how much of Christ that's in you. Depends on how much faith is there, not how much you can explain this and explain that, and explain This away. It's how much faith you've got in God, to believe that He tells the Truth. Well, that's up to you. Depends on what breed you are. If you're Abraham's Seed, you do like Abraham does, "Call things, that were not, as though they were."

L-143   Now Joshua said, "I stilled the people, by telling them, 'Keep quiet! God said so!'" "God said it, that's true. But, you know, they was only two days from there. That's Kadesh-Barnea. They was only two days, they would have been in the promised land."

L-144 But Joshua said, "It was forty years before we took the land. He didn't say when we'd take the land. But He said He let that old generation die off, them unbelievers, and raised up another generation that believed. He didn't say when they'd take the land. But He said they would take the land, and we took it!" I think he's a good witness. Don't you think so? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure do. "We took the land, after so many years."

L-145   Now it's getting late. Now just let me have one more witness. Can we? I got a dozen wrote down here. We could call a hundred, or two, but let me just call one more. And if you'll pardon me, may I be that witness? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I'd like to take the stand for Him. Them days are back there; this is here now. I know that would be their testimony, but let me take the witness stand once. Oh, my!

L-146 I remember down there, when I was a little boy. You've read my life story, and you know the story. I remember, on the river down there, when I was a young Baptist preacher, and was baptizing there. About ten thousand people standing on the bank, when one afternoon... My first great revival, somewhat around a thousand converts, and I was baptizing them out there in the water. The seventeenth person, I was leading out into the water. And I heard a noise, and I looked around. It was hot. It was on June, 1933, at the foot of Spring Street at Jeffersonville, Indiana. I was leading them out there. And the banks, all up-and-down, was just crowded with people.

L-147   I walked out with this little boy. I had seen him at the altar. I said, "Son, have you accepted Jesus Christ to be your personal Saviour?"
He said, "I have."

L-148 His name was Edward Colvin. And I said, "Edward, do you know what I'm doing now?"
He said, "I do, Brother Branham."


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