<TITLE>12. Par 87-95</TITLE>L-87   They think you have to have a big denominationals, together, and let them all come together and have a great big milling around, and so forth, and get thousands to co-operate, and all like this, to have a revival.
Sometime God takes the little old guy don't even know his ABC's, and right amongst a bunch of illiterate people that hardly knows their right hand from the left, He can raise up a revival that'll shake the world. He did in the time of John. He done it in the time of the prophets. None of them, as we know of, was ever educated, but God could get a hold of them and do something with them.

L-88   In this Rock came forth the waters. He was the Rock. And He commanded this Rock, and must be smote. And He gave abundance of pure, fresh, clean water to everybody that would drink. He saved all who would drink from It. A perfect parallel with John 3:16.
... God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,... whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but would have everlasting life,

L-89 God smote that Rock, on Calvary. Our judgment was upon Him, that from Him might come the Spirit of Life that would give you and me Eternal Life. That's a perfect parable of It, there in this wilderness.

L-90   They never had to pull, dig, pump, or anything; just partake of His provided way, freely. When, they didn't have to dig it out of a pond. They didn't have to pull it up with a bucket. They didn't have to have no windle to get it with. They just had to partake of it.
And that's all there is now. You don't have to join nothing. You don't have to get down at the altar and work up something, pumping it. You don't have to say a word over and over and over, till you get a confusion of language. The only thing you have to do is just partake of Him, freely, God's provided way. No pumping, no pushing, no nothing; just take of It, freely. Nothing you have to do; just partake of It. That is, just believe It. That's all I can say to it.
They never had to do anything for it. Never had to dig for it. They never had to get down and cry all night, for it. They just partook of it; it was smitten and ready. That's right.

L-91   I'm looking at a man now, setting in the back of the room here. I remember telling him that, on an old barn stall one day, by a manger.
And he said, "But I'm no good."

L-92 I said, "I know you're not." And I said, "I'm not, either." But I said, "You're looking at what you are. And quit looking at what you are, and look what He is."
He said, "If I could just get rid of these cigarettes, Brother Branham, I--I--I would be a Christian."

L-93 I said, "Don't get rid of them. You're trying to get good and then come to Him. He never come to save good man; He come to save bad man that knowed they were bad."
He said, "Well..."
I said, "Listen, you don't want to go to hell, do you?"
He said, "No."

L-94 I said, "Well, you don't have to. He died that you might not have to go."
He said, "What do I have to do?"
I said, "Nothing. It's just that simple."
He said, "But if I can ever..."

L-95 I said, "There you go, back to that cigarette again. Quit thinking about that cigarette. Just remember, think about Him, what He did, what He is; not what you are. You're no good; and you never was, and never will be. But, what He is, He's the One!" And I said, "Now, the only one thing you have to do; if He took your place down there, you just willingly accept what He did. Only thing you have to do is just accept it."
"Why," he said, "that's simple. I'll do that."


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