<TITLE>10. Par 77-87</TITLE>L-77 We have no great genius among us, Lord. We are simple people with a simple little prayer, but we are coming this morning after Father's sheep. That woman that has walked the streets, miserably, smoking cigarettes, trying to find peace through the cigarette; that man who has smelled the glass and tried to set it back, but the enemy holds him tight; that boy or girl that's tried to do right, that just can't find strength to break away from the wrong thing; we come in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to claim that sheep this morning. We defy the enemy; because it's a simple thing, a slingshot, a prayer, but we're coming to bring that one back to the Father's fold, that we might give an account of those things that's been committed to our hand. May the power of God now strike faith, down in the hearts of the people, and may that lost soul return this morning. May the temptations of this life turn him away, let him go. And may he find hisself safely upon the Master's shoulders, being carried back to safety again. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-78 God bless you all. Till I see you tomorrow, I'll turn the service to Brother Shakarian. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
[Brother Branham ends the third portion--Ed.]
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L-79   This, I--I hope that you'll... that I've found more grace in the sight of God and before you, to believe that I would stand here to tell you something that was wrong. I have passed my fifty-sixth birthday, the other day. This isn't just an old man's Message. I've believed this since I was a little boy. And if this isn't true, I've been the most foolish person God had on the earth. I have give my entire life for this Cause. And may I say this with sincerity: if I had ten thousand lives, I would never change my opinion.

L-80 Now, healing is in the reach of every person. Remember, healing is in you. God placed in the peach tree every peach that would ever be in it, when He planted it in the Garden. See, you just... the peach tree or the apple tree, or the fruit tree, just has to grow, from drinking the water in the earth. Now each one of you has those potentials in you, to deliver you, for it is God, since you've been planted into Christ by baptism (not water baptism), spiritual baptism. You don't come into Christ by water baptism. By spiritual baptism!

L-81 Tomorrow afternoon, the Lord willing, I'm speaking on that, how and what is the real application of It. We have it in the afternoon so it won't interfere with any of your services.

L-82   Now look, each one of you here is standing as believers, see, then the Life that was in Christ is in you. It can, if you could just see it!

L-83 It's the Devil's business to keep you blocked off from That, keep you blinded. He can just let you be blinded, that's, see, you don't know where you're going then. A man that's blind cannot tell where he is going, he's got to seek the understanding from somebody who can see. Until we can understand, somebody has got to tell us what's Truth.

L-84 And Christ died for you, and you are transplanted from the world into Christ. And everything you have need of is right in you, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Isn't that right? Now the only thing you have to do is just start drinking from That.

L-85   And as the tree drinks, it begins to push out its leaves, its bud, pushes out its fruit each year. The fruit is not in the ground; the fruit is in the plant. How many understand that, say "amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] So, see, the fruit is in the plant, and every plant has to drink from his fountain. As the rain comes down, gives that plant, life, to drink from. And, as it drinks, it grows.

L-86 And it's growing up until it comes to the full bud, just like the Church has, to bloom out in this age.

L-87 And, as we drink, we grow. But if the plant refuses to drink, then the plant cannot grow. And if you will just believe it now, individually!


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