<TITLE>27. Par 209-213</TITLE>L-209 How many really love Him. Raise your hand. Now, I want you, while we sing this again, shake hands with somebody near you. Say, "God bless you, pilgrim." We are pilgrims. Aren't we? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Pilgrims and stranger.
I love Him,
That's it, right across the table.
I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.

L-210   You want to make the Rapture? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] How many is interested in making the Rapture? Say, "God, I want to make it, with all my heart."
Hold To God's Unchanging Hand, you know the song? You know it, sister? Hold To God's Unchanging Hand. I don't know what... What's it in, for that one? Huh?
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
You like that?
When our journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright your home in Glory,
Your enraptured soul shall view!
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
I want you to bow your head just a moment now.
Covet not this world's vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Seek to gain the Heavenly treasure,
They will never pass away!
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Hold to God's unchanging hand!
Build your hopes on things Eternal,
Hold to God's unchanging hand!

L-211   With your heads bowed, and this in mind, knowing that we're bowing our heads to the dust from which we were brought, some day we'll return, knowing that you got a soul in there that has to answer to God. And if you feel that you're not just ready for that Rapture, if It would come tonight, and you'd want to be remembered in prayer, just raise your hand. We have no place to make an altar call. Your altar is in your heart, anyhow. Raise your hand. God bless you, you, you. My!
"Feel that I'm not ready, Brother Branham. I--I, really, I--I--I want to be a Christian. I've tried to be, but there's always something missing. I--I know that I--I'm not just where I should be."
"Have mercy, God. I raise my hand. Be merciful to me."
Now, some twenty or thirty hands has been up, already, in this little group. More is going up.

L-212   Dear God, You know what's behind that hand, down there under the heart. I pray, dear God. There's only one thing I'm responsible for, that's, to tell the Truth. And, dear God, they want to be saved. They want to, really. They--they don't want this something that's just some emotion, some work up, some denominational system, some creed, some dogma that's been added. They understand, Father, that it takes the pure, unadulterated Word of God. Everything else will pass away, even heavens and earth, but It won't. And if we be that Word, the earth will pass from beneath us, but we can never pass away, because we are that Word, the Bride of the Groom.

L-213 I pray for each one, that You'll grant to them, Father, is my sincere prayer. And excuse me, Father, for being so nervous tonight, jumping up here late, and--and being shaky, and saying words broke up and cut up. Somehow another, great Holy Spirit, splice them together in Your Own Divine way, and deliver them to the hearts of the people, from my heart, and the motive and the objective that in my heart I have towards You. Won't You, Lord? And save which can be saved. Draw to You, Lord. And may we be ready for that rapturing hour that's soon at hand. For I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
God bless you.
Now, the chairman of the--of the convention.

