<TITLE>08. Par 93-102</TITLE>L-93 Balaam said, "Now, you wait a minute, till I go in and pray, and stay all night, maybe the Lord will meet me and He'll tell me." All right, the next morning, the Lord met with him and said, "Don't go! Don't curse those people. They're blessed."

L-94 All right, Balaam went out and said, "Well, I can't go, because the Lord told me not to go."

L-95 Now notice when they went back, and took the headquarters, for him to go down there and stop this meeting they had, you see, well, then, come to find out, the headquarters sent a better set of people higher dignitaries, maybe a bishop, somebody else, or it might have been a state presbyter, somebody sent down there, "Tell him to go down and stop that anyhow!" See?

L-96 Notice, his better influential group, better gifts, more money, said, "I can exalt you to a better position. I might make you, instead of just being an ordinary man, I can make you a little higher now. I have the right to do that, because I'm king here in this great movement. And I--I can do something better for you, if you'll just do it."

L-97   Notice, the new offer blinded him. He ought to have knowed; what God said, God will do. But it blinded him. And as a prophet of God, he should have not been influenced by such a group. He should have got out of that group, to begin with.

L-98 And if I'm talking to some man of God here! When they try to tell you at the headquarters, that, "The days of miracles is passed," and this what we're doing here, and the Lord Jesus is blessing us, "and that's a bunch of fanaticism, work-up and emotion, there is no such a thing as Divine healing," get out of that group, right there. [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] Get out of it, because It's the Word of God being made manifest. They say, "There is no such a thing as apostolic days. There is no baptism of the Holy Ghost. That speaking in tongues, there is nothing to it there."

L-99 Oh, but, brother, don't you listen to that! There is a many one like Balaam, today, sitting back in their office, reading these Books of the Bible and know that It's the Truth. But yet just because of position's sake, they won't take their stand. Just exactly right. Notice, God... He knew he shouldn't have been in this group, or Balaam should have knew it. They, they get out of the will of God. Them fellows will talk you right out of the will of God. When you find the will of God, don't let nobody talk you out of it.

L-100   I've knowed of good people, come to the meetings, get healed, and go back. And they'd say, "Oh, well, there is nothing to that. You're just worked up. There is nothing to it." And the people go to doubting. I've seen people come and receive Christ in their heart, go back; maybe speak in tongues, and go back. And the church will say, "Why, you're a--you're a disgrace to Christianity," and so forth. And, oh, my, don't, don't do that, see. Get out of that group! Stay away from it.

L-101   Notice, Balaam used a phony text here, for his conscience's sake, see. He said, "Peradventure. You stay another night, and maybe I'll ask God, you see. Maybe He might have changed His mind."

L-102 But God don't change His mind. When God give us the declaration of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, on the Day of Pentecost, that's the way He has to keep it. He did all through the Bible age, and He will any other time that man will come upon them basis that He offered there. If you will come, believing, repenting, being baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and believing on God, God is obligated to fulfill that prescription, right, 'cause He's the doctor. And He'll fulfill it if you will--if you will obey it.


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