<TITLE>18. Par 136-142</TITLE>L-136 Where, if there would be a minister here; I'm not here, my brethren... I don't want you, or some of you members, go back to your church, and say, "Brother Branham said thus and thus."
I am duty bound to a Message that's been given to me from Almighty God. As I stand here tonight, and God knows that's true, that right down on this river... There is people, perhaps, setting here, when that Angel of the Lord come down there and told me what He did, right there in 1933, right down on this Spring Street here. If you're a stranger here, drive right down. It's corner of Spring Street, there where you hit the river, and there is where it happened. That's been in 1933. It's probably been about thirty-two years ago, then. Oh, it's been thirty-... it's been thirty-... thirty-two years ago, thirty-two years ago.
And how that He has brought that right down, everything. And we've went out, bringing the Message, and seen the sick healed, the blind, and the crippled, and lame, and halt, and everything. And then see even the dead, that we know that's been verified, raised up from the dead. The people die, and raised right back to life again, and all these things. If a Message goes forth, there is signs and wonders!

L-137 And you still see that same old school of thought that you come up with? That didn't come from God. God don't just have to do...
God is trying to get your attention attracted to Something.

L-138 And then when Jesus went out, He started healing the sick, and doing great works and things. He, alway, He... Jesus did it. And Moses and Jesus done it, and the rest of them. And when He was here, He did it.
And He's doing it, the same thing today. When He sends forth a meeting like that, revivals, and starts a meeting in the earth, and starts a moving along with these great signs and wonders. And then you see, come back, that same old school of teaching, there--there is something wrong there somewhere. There is something new coming forth! When Jesus came out, after, when...

L-139 "He is a fine rabbi." He could go to any pulpit and preach, when He was healing the sick. When, oh, they liked to have Him over there.
But one day when He set down, and said, "I and My Father are One," brother, He wasn't so popular after that. When He said, "Except you eat My flesh, and drink My Blood, you have no Life in you. But he that eats My flesh, and drinks My Blood, has everlasting Life; and I'll raise him up at the last day." Then, He wasn't so popular from then.

L-140 They said, "This Man is a vampire. This Man is a Beelzebub. That's the way He done them things. He could tell fortunes. He looked through their--their minds and perceived their thoughts. He's a fortuneteller."
But, what it was, He--He was the Word of God made manifest for that hour. And He was duty bound. He said, "I do always that which is pleasing to My Father." God help us to do the same thing, do that which is pleasing to the Father.

L-141 And I hope you all will understand. If you disagree with me on these Messages and things, that you'll remember, at least have this respect, that I have a responsibility, and I'm not going to Tarshish. I'm on the road to Nineveh, and I--I got to cry out. The Lord bless you all.
Let us bow our heads now just a moment.

L-142 It's almost nine-thirty. I don't want to keep you, but I want to find this if I can, tonight. Is there some here that--that just isn't exactly where you should be in Christ, but you--you would want to be, and you desire to be, would you just raise up your hand, say, "Brother Branham, pray for me"? God bless you, just look at the hands. "I--I want... I'm here, Brother Branham, to get closer to God."
And if your head was raised, my--my hand is up, too. That's what I'm here for. I'm hungering, like you are.


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