24-0506P_THE TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS PT-11 (THY HOUSE)

Act 16:28  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 

Act 16:29  Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 

Act 16:30  And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 

Act 16:31  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

*I'M JUST--JUST ALL PACKED UP AND READY, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES, LORD, HERE I AM. I'M JUST WAITING.

THY.HOUSE_  TIFTON.GA  TUESDAY_  61-0808

  E-45    All right, Jimmy, have you got them, my boy? [Brother reads a question: "When the rapture takes place, will all believer's families, wife and children go? They are in faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord?"--Ed.]

Yes, yes. Will all the family go in--in the--in the rapture? See, yes. See? Now, if you notice, the rapture is going to be a universal thing. And how... Did you all get that lesson all right Sunday? You all understand it all right about how close we are at the time, "The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel"?

THY.HOUSE_  TIFTON.GA  TUESDAY_  61-0808

  E-46    Now, we was talking today, the brethren. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, if you believe that the rapture is that close, then why do you go fishing?" If I put my mind to it constantly, it would almost run you wild. When you think of the tens of thousands of people out here in sin that don't know Christ. And I think that "Here I am, what can I do?"

But here's what I think. I cannot save one unless God called them. See? I can't do it. And I couldn't save them anyhow. But "all the Father has given Me will come to Me." So if He don't tell me where to go, then what can I do? See?

So, the thing I do, is just not be--not be all weary about it. That'd be worse than ever. I'm happy about it. I'm just--just all packed up and ready, you know, when it comes, Lord, here I am. I'm just waiting.

*BUT CHRISTIAN IS NOT A CHURCH THAT YOU BELONG TO; IT'S AN EXPERIENCE THAT YOU HAVE HAD OF BEING BORN INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD.

THY.HOUSE_  TIFTON.GA  TUESDAY_  61-0808

  E-48    You say, "Well, a Christian means a Campbellite." No, that's--that's... They just call them Christian, but that don't mean Christian. I know a many people that I'd think belong to what was called the Christian Church that wasn't Christians. And the Christian ministers will tell you the same thing of the Christian Church, that they got many members that not Christian.

But Christian is not a church that you belong to; it's an experience that you have had of being born into the family of God.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  HARRISONBURG.VA  THURSDAY_  58-0313

E-10    So then, we find our prophet then tonight, as he got on the ship, and there come a great uproar of the sea. And they tied his feet and his hands, and threw him out of the ship. And God had a great big fish prepared for him, and he swallowed the preacher. And there, after the fish feeds, anyone knows, that when a fish feeds, he goes to the bottom and rest himself with his swimmers against the bottom of the lake, or the brook, or the sea, or whatever he's in.

Feed your little goldfish and watch them. Just as soon as they got their little belly full, they'll go right down in the bottom of the jar, and there they'll rest.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  HARRISONBURG.VA  THURSDAY_  58-0313

  E-11    Well now, this stormy sea, and this prophet, backslidden, hands tied behind him, feet tied in the belly of the whale, in the bottom of the ocean... I've always thought of this when I see people that look to symptoms. If there ever way a person who had a right to have symptoms, it was Jonah. Look at his condition; there's no one in that condition, here tonight. And he had--he was backslid, out of the will of God, feet and hands tied, in the belly of the whale, vomit all over him, sea weeds around his neck, laying in the bottom of the sea. If he looked this a way, it was the whale's belly; if he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly.

Now, there's none of us that bad off. And you know what he said? He refused to see the whale's belly. He said, "They are lying symptoms, lying vanities." Watch what that man said, down in that condition. He refused to see his circumstance, and he said, "Once more will I look towards Thy holy temple." Oh, if we could only see that.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  HARRISONBURG.VA  THURSDAY_  58-0313

  E-12    And Jonah knew that when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and will look towards this holy place, and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah based his confidence in the prayer of Solomon.  

Jos 24:14  Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 

Jos 24:15  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.