Their nature is different

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240. "What are you going to do now?"
"Well, I'm going over in California. The Lord sent me over in California. Just... I'm going to seine over there awhile." I'll go down and throw my net out like this, and push in. Fifteen hundred comes at one time. Was all of them saved? I don't know. There they are. I take the net up; that's the Gospel net.
Some of them, the Bible said, was all kinds of things that was in the water. They all breathe on the same water, lived in the same water. Is that right? See? There was terrapins, mud turtles, snakes, frogs, lizards, scavengers, and real fish.
Now, those that were fish when the Gospel net went over them, was fish when they were on the bank. Those that were terrapins in the Gospel net, were terrapins on the bank. It won't be long till they'll take right back for the mud again. As a hog to its wallow, and a dog to its vomit, away they go. See? But at the beginning, they were terrapins to begin with. It's not my business to say they're terrapins. I don't know. I'm just seining (See?), just pulling the net. But when the last fish is come out of the water, brother that's it.

245. Oh, the Lord Himself will come and will say the work is done.
The station will be changed after while.
That's right. That's right. Yes, sir.
He will say the work's done and it's finished. It's all over when the last one's come out. And they's been a whole bunch of hog wallows around and everything. God's pulling them fish out of there just as fast as He can. Preachers from every side just swinging the nets from one way to the another; we even wrap the nets around one another. We're just pulling as hard as we can, seining. She's just about ready. He will blow the old pond up one of these days, and she'll all be over; but the fish will go to the good clear waters out yonder, where they'll have Eternal Life forever. Amen.

247. Oh, when that last one comes... My, how--what a privilege it is for God to say, "Would you like to be a fish?" Amen. "Would you like to be a fish on My table? Would you like to come and be meat at My table?" Oh, my. Sure, sure Lord. See?
But their nature is fish. See? When you're a Christian, your nature is a Christian. You don't have to say, "Now, you--you--you can't--you can't smoke. You can't drink. You can't do this." You don't have to say that. They just don't do it anyhow. See? Their nature is different. The Spirit of Christ is in the person, and Christ don't do those things. See?
You say "You have to love the Lord; you ought to go to church." You don't have to tell them people that. They go anyhow. They'll walk through rain. They'll go to... They'll go through death to go to church. Sure. They love it. They just got to get there. That's all there is to it. It's their life. If they don't, they--they feel like their perishing. Sure. Yes, sir. You just got to get there.

God Keeps His Word – 57-0407M – William Branham