The Holy Spirit got a hold of him

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One time up in Kentucky, up in the mountain country where I come from, I was preaching. And I… Early in the afternoon I was preaching on hell fire and brimstone for the unbeliever. There was an old logger setting back there, and I said, “All you drunkards (and he was one),” I said, “you better repent. Get right with God.”

There’d been a fellow come in the night before that was cutting corn, and he had a—a big nail sticking in his overalls. He said, “We’ll go up there (I’d been preaching for about a year),” said, “we’ll throw that little preacher out the window.”

So he come at the door. Someone come told me, said, “That’s the roughest bunch there is around here.” Standing there, great big, burly-looking fellow, his arms crossed, beard hanging on his face, about thirty years old: oh, he was a mean-looking man. And he kept looking at me. I just kept preaching right on, “Repent or perish.”

He stayed a little too long. The Holy Spirit got a hold of him. He fell in the floor; he couldn’t get to the altar quick enough. He come with his hands up over his head crying, “God, be merciful to me.”

The next night his little child set back there. His little girl handed me a little bunch of flowers when I come in the door. She said, “Brother Bill, we’ve got a new daddy at home. I want to show you that I love you for coming up here, and letting Jesus make a new daddy for us.”

Letting Off The Pressure - 62-0609E - William Branham

It’s out of His reach

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And remember, what He’s already done, He cannot do again. See, He’s put it completely from His reach now. He’s put it in your reach. He’s done all He can do. Is that right, ministers? [Ministers say, “Amen.”—Ed.] See, there isn’t a thing He can do about it. It’s out of His reach. It’s in your reach. “For He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed.” See? See, it’s out of His reach. It’s, but He’s brought it to your reach. It’s in your reach now. It was put there for you. He’d just point to where it was at.

“Well,” you say, “If I…It’s always been a puzzle to me. If He’s, if…Really, the truth is, does He still live?”

Certainly, He lives. What’s this you’re bumping into all the time? What’s that condemns you when you’re wrong? What’s that that makes you believe? That’s Him. You might not be able to open your eyes and see Him, because He’s in spirit form, the invisible God. But He dwells among a visible people, making Himself visible by His promised Word in that people. Do you understand that now?

Here, before we call the prayer line, I trust God will do this.

I, I love you, Life Tabernacle. You know that. I’ve been your brother. I’ve tried to be, anyhow. I’ve done many failings, but I’ve tried to be.

Listen. Come to yourself, tonight. Wake up, before it’s too late. See, wake up, quickly. He is here with us.

Go, Awake Jesus - 63-1130E - William Branham

The messenger's Voice

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Notice, this angel is the last messenger before the coming of Christ in the 19th chapter of Revelation. The messenger’s Voice! If we notice, when he gave his Voice on the earth, there was a Voice echoed again in Heaven, 4th verse, if you want to read it, all right, 4th verse, the 19th chapter. This messenger on the earth was so inclined with God until, when he spoke it on the earth, God echoed the same thing out of Heaven.

Why I'm Against Organized Religion - 62-1111E - William Branham