<TITLE>41. Par -</TITLE>L-982-Q-278 278. Brother Branham, I just... (I'm waiting just 3 more minutes if I can. Let me get something short here maybe.) I can't give over completely to Jesus. Have I an evil spirit?
Let me just spend the rest of the time on that there. You can't surrender to Jesus? They don't... See, I don't know man or woman; I couldn't tell which it is. God knows that.
You can't surrender to Jesus. Why? What's the matter? If you are a woman, don't you have to surrender to your husband to be a wife, surrender all you are? A little lady when you were married, virtuous, fought all your life to stay virtuous, but one day you found a man that you loved. You were his completely. The things that you'd fought against all your life and tried to live clean, and clear, and virtuous, now you surrender every bit of it to one man. Is that right? You put yourself completely in his hands; you are his. All that you have stood for in decency, and moral, and everything like that, now you turn over to a man, because you surrender yourself to the man. Can't you do the same thing to Jesus Christ? Just surrender yourself that way, "all that I am, all my mind, all my thoughts." Certainly.
I don't think that you're possessed of an evil spirit; I think that evil spirit anoints you with them kind of thoughts, trying to make you think that you cannot surrender yourself to God. When... Let me show you something. Why would you want to surrender to Him? Because there's something out there calling to you to surrender. It's a very good sign that you ought to surrender yourself.

L-983-272 Now, all you do, brother or sister (might be a young person or old, whatever it is), you said... Just can't find themselves so they can completely surrender. Just give yourself over. "Lord, my thinking, my all that I am, I--I want to give to You. My life, I give as a life of service. Take me, Lord, and use me just as I am." And it's such a simple thing; I wish the church could really... I believe if--if--if the Tabernacle now, benefiting on these questions... Do you like them? All right. It'll help a little.
Now look, on this, if the church would just ask these things (You see?), ask these things: if they should do this, or do that, and everything, I'll try to do the best I can. If I've advised you wrong, it's not been in my heart to do it. If I said anything wrong just to uphold some of my own thoughts and things, not--knowing--knowing that it's wrong to do that or tell you that, I'd be a filthy hypocrite. That's right. But from my heart, if I'm wrong, God knows (See?) I have done it with all that's in me to answer your questions.

L-983-274 And to you ministers out in the land where this tape will go, I didn't say these things to hurt you. I said it because I love you. See? And I truly, with all my heart... It's... Now, I'm not trying to work to show that--that I--I know something that you don't know. That isn't it, my brother. I'm only doing this because I love you, and I--I--you love me, I believe.
What if you saw me going down the river in an old boat, out here on this river, close to where we're at now, here at the Tabernacle, the Ohio River; and the river'd be up and flooded; and the falls is just below me. And you know that boat won't go over those falls; it just won't do it... And here I am setting out there with my head back, and singing, and resting, and going right down, floating down that, leisurely down that river; and you know right down there I'm going to wreck up. If you loved me, you'd scream, or you'd jump in a boat, and run out there, and konk me on the head with something, bring me in. "Brother Branham, you're out of your mind. You're out of your mind; the falls is right here."
And I said, "Oh, shut up. Leave me alone." And yet you love me anyhow. You'd do anything in the world; you'd grab me. If you had to--if you had to bust up the boat, you'd get me out of there, 'cause you love me; you know what's going to happen.


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