<TITLE>20. Par 190-203</TITLE>L-190 She said, "Hey, would you like a little drink out of my bottle?" She was half-drunk.
And I said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
She said, "Come here. I want to take you to where I stay."
I said, "Aren't you at home?"
"No."
I said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "Take a little drink out of my bottle. I'll tell you."

L-191 I said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself, to offer me a drink out of a bottle, or a cigarette?"

L-192 She said, "I want to tell you something, preacher. You know that night you told me that was my 'last chance'?"
I said, "Yes, I remember."

L-193 She said, "You were right." She said, "Since then, my soul has been so hard!" She said... Now here's the remark. It just run shivers over my back. She said, "I could see my own mother's soul fry in hell like a pancake, and laugh at it."

L-194 Would you want to get in that stage? Don't you turn Him down. So right now, won't you come, stand here with the rest of these?
Come home, come home.

L-195 Turn Him away, that's what happened. Remember, you'll turn Him, the last time.
Come home. Earn-...

L-196 He keeps all of His appointments. And you've got one with Him. You're going to meet Him at the Judgment or meet Him here.
Calling, O sinner, come home.

L-197   You know, I'm so surprised. My heart feels real funny. I thought, today, when I was praying... Had another message I was going to speak on. He told me to do that. He told me to say that. I thought every bobbed-haired woman would be standing here at that altar call. See, you just get so hard and so far away. See? You pass that line between that surging, see, not hearing the Word of God. I thought surely it would happen. But I guess maybe it's later than I really think. Remember, the blood is not upon my hands. I have not shunned to declare to you the Counsel of God, the way It is.

L-198 Remember, there is something inside, identifying the outside. Get away from it, sister, dear. Brother, get her by the hand and come on up here. Why don't you? Won't you be, won't you want to be a real Christian? What's the use of living halfway life, and living under condemnation? Don't you do that. See? You say, "Well, I--I..." I don't care what you've done. Your fruits is what you're known by.

L-199   I cross America, constantly. And every year I cross, it gets worse and worse, so I know there is something wrong. The day of grace is passing by. Don't let that happen to you here in Tampa. You're here in a great, big, fabulous city where everything is full of glamour, just like Hollywood.

L-200 The whole world has become contaminated. All is on televisions and things is some old vulgar, dirty stuff. And you try to pattern yourself like that. Won't you take Jesus' example? Won't--won't don't you let Him? Won't you listen to His Word? Won't you do these things that's right?

L-201   How many in here will honestly say that you know you haven't got the Holy Ghost? Look in yourself, in the mirror, and know you haven't. Know, and just look at your own life, and the way you do.

L-202 Not because you belong to church, "I belong to Methodist, Baptist, Pres-... I..." That's all right. I ain't saying nothing against that. But I'm asking you, do you know Christ Jesus? Is He living in you? If He does, He'll identify Himself there. If He's there, He's bound to let Himself be known. You can't hide Him, He stands out.

L-203 You haven't got the Holy Ghost, and you know you haven't, raise up your hand. Be that honest. Say, "I haven't got the Holy Ghost. I know I haven't." God bless you for that sincerity. God will honor that sincerity. If you want the Holy Ghost, won't you come stand here with these now, these penitent sinners here. Won't you come at this time? Come up and stand, while we sing it again. Say, "I want It, Brother Branham." I tell you that it takes That. You're going to have to have It, for the Rapture. That's exactly right.


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