Spoken Word no. 266
“Rightly Dividing the Word of
Truth”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
July 17th, 2011
2
Timothy 2:15 Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
This morning we will
read the last three paragraphs from The Spoken Word is the Original Seed pp. And we will see later on if the Lord has anything
else for us to look at in this Sermon before we conclude the series. But for
now, let’s read beginning with paragraph 205 as brother Branham is closing in prayer. “Him that led us, and in this now with
the hours of preaching, explaining, doing the best I know how for my fellow
man, trying to get them to understand the things that I have said, and why I
have done these things. I bring to You now, Lord, this people, this people
visible and the people that will hear
will hear the tapes hereafter...?...Think, God, Himself, give the Divine
interpretation; and I'm sure, Lord, if I brought the Word, It'll fall on them that It's predestinated to fall on. Thy Word is
Truth. Father, I'm sorry that I failed You many times. I pray You forgive me. I pray You forgive my audience, visible
and invisible, of all their sins; that, Lord God, we
realize that we're at the end of the road. Every sign's right here before us.
I'm sure the spiritual mind, Lord, catches what I just said a few minutes ago.
I pray that they'll understand, Lord, where we're at. We're near something. We
can hear the breakers; we're close. 206 Help us, Lord in heaven. I pray
for every person that's setting here. I pray for these handkerchiefs that
represent the sick who trust me, Lord, that I pray a prayer of faith for all.
Now, to those that are open hearted to
God's Word, by faith I plant this seed. I claim that in the Name Jesus
Christ and in faith in God, that, Lord God, I commit them to You now. Water it; send the Spirit upon it, Lord,
that germitized Word there, that You're the same great God to heal, same
great God to save, the same great God of the resurrection. You're God. May they produce a crop, a bride for our
Lord Jesus, a sanctified womb of the heart to receive the Word. Grant it,
Lord. I commend them to You to take from here, if possible, every one Your
bride. In the Name of Jesus Christ.
Amen. 207 I love Him, I love Him Because He first loved
me And purchased my salvation On
Now, in closing of
our reading here and perhaps even the end of this wonderful series that we have
sent the last 3-1/2 years on, I would like to take our thought today on these
words which brother Branham said, You're God. May they
produce a crop, a bride for our Lord Jesus, a sanctified womb of the heart to
receive the Word. Grant it, Lord. I commend them to You to take from here,
if possible, every one Your bride. In
the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
And so we are looking
at His request that each of us that hear The Word would produce the crop that
we are ordained to produce.
Now, we find that
these were also the Words of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Matthew
chapter 13.
Matthew 13:10 And
the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because
it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to
them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to
him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not,
from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is
fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their
ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time
they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your
ears, for they hear. 18 Hear
ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any
one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the
wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he
which received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the
seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy
receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself,
but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of
the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed
among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and
the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is
he that heareth the word, and
understandeth it; which also beareth
fruit, (produces fruit) and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold,
some sixty, some thirty.
Notice in the Scripture we just read, Jesus is very
plain that there are some who are ordained to see and understand, while others
are not ordained to see and understand. And those who are ordained to see and
understand He said will produce fruit, while the others will not produce fruit.
In other words the Word will produce in them what it has ordained to produce.
Others you will not see this seed-life manifested, because there is not life in
them.
We also find this same thing spoken of in Acts 13:48 And when the
Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life
believed.
Now, the fact is you can not believe what you do not
understand. Oh, you can believe in a
person because of vindication even though you do not understand what they are
saying, but to believe person you have to have some kind of understanding and
perception what they are telling you. And the fact that we have understanding
and perception of the doctrine that William Branham taught us indicates we have
been ordained to understand it. Then
what does that say about those who do not understand what God is doing in this
hour? It is very simple. They are not ordained to see it, and no matter how
much you try to tell them what you see, they will never see it unless they are
ordained to see it.
That is why brother Branham preached his sermon “Look” right after the seals were preached.
And in that message he said, Look 63-0428 P:12 Now, we are going
to try this morning to take just four letters in a word, "Look," for
a subject, and to deal with it a little while as the Lord will lead us to do. I
have a few notes written here and some Scripture that we might refer to as we
go along. Look, l-double o-k, look, the word, really, when... It's used oft,
"but, look..." When you hear the word it's usually somebody trying to get you to see what they
are looking at. They say to you, "Look." Like going down the
road, someone might see a certain scene and they'd say, "Look," and
then express what it is. It's at the mountain, at the cactus, or whatever
they're looking at. But the first thing to get your attention is, "Look."
And so we see this sermon was called “Look” because brother Branham was seeing something
the people were not seeing, and so as he said, we use the word “Look” to get their attention to stop whatever
it is they are doing and to look at what we are pointing them too. So we see in Matthew
13, Jesus tells us "There has to be eyes first to see. Is that right? And
if we have those eyes to see, we will see what is in Malachi
4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and the dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
and the heart of the children to their
fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
If our spiritual vision
is good we read this with perception and understanding, and we see it speaks of
two events, a Great Day when the messiah would come and be introduced by Elijah
the prophet and it would turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children, and the
Dreadful day of the Lord in which Elijah the prophet would turn the hearts of
the children to the fathers. So here we see these two ministries of Elijah the
prophet separated by 2000 years. And remember, the word heart is always used in
Scripture to refer to understanding.
And of course there
are many Scriptures that speak of understanding from the heart, as we read in Matthew 13 as well
as Acts C28:27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
And as I said a few weeks
ago, we see the same thing with John 14:12.
Jesus speaks of the believer doing the works and then he speaks of doing the
greater works. So we have works and greater works. And as I have said we have
to be careful to say all that the prophets have said on that. Just because
brother Branham identified that with his ministry does not say that he believed
it was only for his ministry. So we must be very careful on rightly dividing
the Word of Truth.
That is why when brother
Branham and
From his sermon, Ye must be born again
58-0619B P:14 What you are, what Calvinism is, what grace is, is what God did for you.
But what works is, is what you do for
God in appreciation of what He did for you through grace. That's the whole
answer. Then if I am saved, then I live
like I'm saved. But I could live like I was saved and not be saved. See? So
it's the fact then brings it to this spot, that we must be born again. So the
born again experience tells what we are. It doesn't mean that we, I believe in
shouting and all the manifestations and demonstrations of the Spirit, but yet
that's not it yet. See? It's something
different from that. It's a new creature, something in the heart. And I wonder if we ministers, both man and
women, if many times we don't just say the word, "You must be born
again," and take it over the head of the people like that. When we've got
to come back to the spot and let them know what a birth means. See? It's got to
come back to something more than words; it's got to come back to a fundamental
fact, and that is this great experience
of being born again and what it
produces for us. See?
You see evidence and experience
are two different words and mean two different things. Evidence is what the new
birth produces for us, and that is “we can say from our heart amen to every word
of God, and we can not only hear it, but we can also recognize it and act upon
it”. That is what the Word of God is to produce in the hearts of man.
Not just talking about the Word, or being able to say the same words, because any
parrot can do that? But it means to hear it,
recognize it, and then begin acting upon it. That’s why brother
Branham said, And
I wonder if we ministers, both man and women, if many times we don't just say
the word, "You must be born again,"
and take it over the head of the people like that.
You see, having an evidence
in the fact that you receive the Word for the Day in which you live, doesn’t do
away with your having an experience of birth, it just means that there is an
empirical evidence that shows whether
that birth was genuinely from the Holy Ghost or not. The devil can duplicate
any experience, but not every one can hear, recognize and act upon the Word of
God. But that does not do away with the fact that every believer
has some form of experience when being born again. And let’s face it, every
birth into this world is unique in it’s own sort of way. I had to be placed in
an oxygen tent for my first 8 days on earth because my lungs had not fully formed
yet. Others may have been born very early and needed assistance for a period of
time, others may have had to have a C-section in the mother for the baby to be
born, etc. No matter what the birth, each was a real experience with real pain
and suffering involved to one degree or another.
As Brother Branham said, how can you come
through a birth and not know it. But they were not talking about
whether a person has an experience or not, that was not the subject. The
subject was “what is the evidence of the
new birth?”, and the word evidence means plainly visible or admissible
testimony. In other words, they were looking at evidence of something
having already taken place. And the experience of being born again is just that
an experience. But since Satan can duplicate any experience we do not look to
the experience as an absolute, but only at the indicative admissible testimony
which is always the Word.
From his sermon, Discerning body of
Lord 59-0812 16 Jesus said once, "That except a man be born again, he
cannot see the
Now, I believe the evidence of being born
again is the Word comes alive to you and you receive an ability to understand the
Word and to see it unfolding in your day.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, (The Greek word for received here is Lambano and it means to have
experienced or to have taken to one's self. Therefore, those who
truly experienced Him, are the one's He says) to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name: So these are believers. They
Believe on His Name. And to them He gives power to become sons… Now
the word power used is the Greek word "exousia", an ability
to make a right decision, For you see, the Bible also tells us, "PROVERBS 14:12 There is a way which seems right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Therefore if a
man is left up to his own choosing, he will go in the ways of death. But God
has given him, or has granted, given him a grant, the ability to know and to
understand. And this ability to make a right decision concerning the acceptance
of Christ is not for everyone. For Jesus tells Nicodemus, these … 13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God. So He is talking about the new birth and the importance of that new
birth is that God gives him an ability to know and to understand the
I Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love
him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of
God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
God knows. 12 Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged
of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Why against
organized religion 62-1111E 63 But if
he's born the same way that I'm born, then he'll know the things that I know.
Amen. Oh, my. Yes, sir. You can't tell a knot on the tree how we move about and
be active, it would have to receive our
kind of life to understand it. Same
with the Spirit. The same thing is
with the Spirit, or you can't understand It. There's no need of trying to
figure It all out; just come to Him first. For, "Except
a man be born again, he can't even see the Kingdom," He said, that's
understand it. You've got to be born again in order to
know It.
Contending for the faith 55-0220E 66 Jesus
said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the Kingdom." You
can't understand it. It's a mystic, mythical thing until you're born again.
There the very Life of God comes in you. Everlasting, Eternal Life, Zoe, God's
own Life comes in you, and then you're a part of God. You're a Son of God or a daughter of God. And then you see as God sees. You
believe as God believes. Then you'll be a new creature in Christ Jesus....
In I PETER 1:23 we read, Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever. Now, I want you to understand what this
is telling us. In John chapter 1 we read that the new birth is being born of
God… and now we are told here in 1 Peter that the new birth comes by the Word,
being born again by the Word of God…
And yet does not John 1:1 tell us, “In the beginning was
the Word and the Word was God.” And did not Jesus tell us in John 6:63,
“My words are
spirit an they are life.” Therefore, as Jesus said, “God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in
Spirit and truth.” And God being a Spirit, and He is the Word, then that Word must come into the believer and
it is that Word which quickens the Soul of the Believer to the word of God,
and thus to God Himself, for He is the Word. And Being that God is the Word,
and He is Spirit, then when the Word of God comes alive in the believer it is
actually the Life of God in the Believer coming alive.
The Scripture doesn’t say
that when you believed you received the Baptism, but have you received the baptism since you
believed. The word Since means after. Now, the problem we have in
this Message is that of having a balance in understanding how the evidence is
one thing yet there may be an experience which is something different
altogether.
From his sermon, Questions and answers COD
64-0823E P:48 289.
At the instant of receiving the Holy Ghost, or the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
is there a difference? Does a person speak with tongues? If not always, what
manifestation is known? Well, could you
imagine a mother giving birth to a baby and not knowing it? She'd have to
be unconscious not to know it. Neither
can you receive the Holy Ghost without knowing it. There's something takes place in you. See? There's something that
changes you. Your whole system, your whole spiritual system is made new again,
and you become a new creature in Christ, as the Bible puts it, a new creation
in Christ. You know it. Now, you say, "Brother Branham, then you don't
believe that a man should speak with tongues to receive the Holy Ghost."
Not to prove he's got the Holy Ghost..
And from his sermon, Voice of the sign
64-0321E P:25 Now,
we're not playing church. This is church. Christ is the church. We're in
Christ, the mystical body of Christ. We're
born into it; you can't join it. I've been with the Branham family for
almost fifty-five years, and they never did ask me to join the family. I was
born a Branham. That's the way you're a
Christian; you're born a Christian. Not joined into it, you're born in it. Everybody's afraid
of the birth. They have some nice clean way of taking a little hand, or signing
a little card, or a salt-shake with some water in it. That's not the birth. A birth is a hard thing. A birth is \an awful thing. I don't
care if it's in a pigpen, or a barn stall, or in a pink decorated hospital
room, a birth is a mess. And it makes a mess out of you. You don't
want to give up. You don't want this, that, or the other. But the tears'll wash the paint off your face
and make you a different person. If
you're born again, it'll make a mess out of you. But you'll come forth a new creature. They don't want that. They want some easy way, you know. And
there is no easy way. As the song, he said, "I'll take the way with the
Lord's despised few." You don't want to be a hotbed plant.
Balm of
Gilead 61-0218 P:55 You
know, the new birth's what people want to dodge; they want to dodge the issue.
So the devil patches it up, says, "When you believe, that's when you're born again."
That's not right. Listen, any birth, as I said before, any birth is a
mess. I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pig pen, it's a mess. A
mess of pigs being born out there, it's a horrible thing. If it was out in the
field when a calf's born, it's a horrible thing, nasty mess. If it's out in the
pink decorated hospital room, it's still a mess. And the new birth is a mess.
But you have to have that messy thing to bring forth new life. Amen. That's
what's the matter with the people today. They're
afraid it'll wash some of the paint off their face and make them straighten up.
They got the toxine, but they don't want to take it. And God's going to ask you
why someday, didn't you do it? Why didn't you? There's toxine; there's balm
in
We find also
Scriptures as we pointed out a few weeks ago in John
14:12, where the people get a hold of one little idea and they can’t see
any further than that. Look, I do not want to keep hitting these things, but
we’ve got to snap out of it. We’ve got to take all the Word not just that which
suites our doctrine. So we saw how that there is a balance within John 14:12
just as there is in Malachi 4:6 and Isaiah 61:1-2 where there are 2,000
years separated by a colon.
This day
this scripture 65-0219 P:13 And just as plain as you could hear any
voice, a Voice come to me and said, "He entered into Nazareth to where He
was brought up at and went into the synagogue as it was His custom. And the
priest gave Him the Scriptures to read, and He read Isaiah 61.
And when He had read the Scriptures, He set down, handed the priest back the
Bible, the Book, and set down. And all the eyes of the congregation was upon
Him, and precious words proceeded from His mouth and He said, 'This day this Scripture is fulfilled.'"
"This day this Scripture is fulfilled." How accurate is the
Scripture. If you'll notice this, in Isaiah 61:1-2 is where our Lord was reading from: Isaiah 61:1-2.
But in the middle of the second verse of Isaiah 61, He stopped where it said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me to preach
the acceptable year." Then He stopped. Why? The other part, to bring judgment, it didn't
apply to His first coming, but His
second coming. See, it didn't apply there; how the Scriptures never make a mistake. They're always perfect.
Jesus stopped just where the Scripture stopped, 'cause that was exactly what
was to be vindicated in His day.
So you see how we have
shown you three scriptures where that Scripture was broken into first coming
and second coming, and yet if we said Malachi 4:6
was William Branham we could say amen to that. Yet if Someone said Malachi 4:6
was John turning the hearts of the Fathers to the children, we could say Amen
to that also. And Isaiah 61 as brother Branham
pointed out is the same things, as well as John 14:12
we saw the same thing. That is why Brother Branham could identify with ia
particular Scripture and yet say, just because all can not do those things
doesn’t mean that only one man will do it either. Because part of that verse
also applies to others in that group as brother Branham made it so clear. In
other words there is a balance we have yet to come to. And it takes a balance
to bring us to maturity.
We see the same thing
concerning Revelations
10:1-7, I can show you many quotes where brother Branham in speaking
of His own ministry and says, “friends this is the
fulfillment of Malachi 4, St. Luke 17, St. John 15, oh, so many, Revelations 10,
so many prophecies that can be pinned exactly to this day.”
And we could take and show you nearly 70 quotes where
he identifies his ministry as Revelations 10:1-7 and yet I can show you some
others where he says that will be when the Lord returns to the Jews. So what
are you going to do about it? Just say what he said that’s all you can do.
I was listening to my Ipod Friday night and as I awoke
Saturday morning I heard brother Branham says, yesterday morning as I awoke
from sleep and heard brother Branham say, “5 These couple requests... I don't know whether
they got the recorders going yet for this or not. It might be good. Well, I
guess it's all right for the outside, the public to hear this, it's a request. Did
you prophesy that there'd be a million Negroes killed or did you just announce
that there would be this happening? Now, see, I've always asked you to be careful what you're listening to. See? There's so much of it that it's just the
human side. But always if there is
something that goes forth, it will speak it, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD,"
even to visions or anything. The visions
on the platform, in the audience, you are doing that yourself; it isn't God;
it's you. See? God doesn't produce
that vision; you do it yourself by your faith in a Divine gift. Like the
woman touched His garment. He didn't know who she was or what was wrong with
her, but she did that herself. See? Now, that
wasn't THUS SAITH THE LORD. It was THUS SAITH THE LORD when Jesus spoke
back and told her that her faith had saved her. But, see, you have to watch. 6 No,
I just was talking about Martin Luther King on this great disaster that they're
having in the south, with the colored people. I said, "If those people were slaves, I'd take my
church and go south to help them people out of slavery." I sure would,
because man makes slaves, not God. We're all of one blood. …and then
in paragraph 7 he said, And I think that Martin Luther King is
Communistic inspired, which is going
to lead about a million people to a absolutely a death trap. See? I don't say the Lord told me that. I
believe. See? And I believe it
shouldn't be done. I think that people ought to be Christians and recognize
one another as brothers.
So you see, I think it has become too common among the
people in this Message to say everything brother Branham said was thus saith the Lord, and many people have been
waiting for the million blacks going to there death as something that has to
happen before the coming of the Lord, and he said it was not something that God
told him, it was just what he as a man could see happening because the man was being
influenced by the wrong spirit, which was the communist party of America. So if
you are waiting for that to happen, just forget it. Because remember he said
everything has been fulfilled except the coming of Christ. Remember also that brother
Branham told us that even the disciples had a hard time understanding Jesus because
he was a dual being. He said in his sermon, Sirs we
would see Jesus 57-1211 P:21 Christ seemed to be
a dual personality. He would speak
sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't understand Him. He'd
speak one thing one time, look like, and something else another time. What
it was, was Jesus speaking, and then
Christ speaking. Jesus was the
man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me,
He doeth the work." See? God will not
share His glory with no one.
So you see, that is why I try to take everything brother
Branham says in these sermons back to the Scriptures and run it from Genesis to
Revelations, then we can rest in knowing that it is Thus
Saith the Lord. Because as Christians we are commanded to not
add one word or take one word from this Bible, and being Christians and being
it is in our nature to hold onto every word, we then take every Word God’s
prophet said and run with it, when sometimes we need to just set back and watch
and let God interpret his own Word by bringing it to pass. People seem to be in
too big of a hurry to try to make things happen. So my advice is this, If God
said it, it will most assuredly happen. If God did not say it, then it will not
come to pass.
And that is why brother Branham tried over and over to
emphasize that he did not prophecy concerning 1977, he simply said as a human
being who is watching the timing of the 5 previous visions coming to pass,
based on that time-frame I believe the 7th vision will come by 1977.
But later he said, things are slowing down and we have to wait for things to
catch up. So what does it all mean? I don’t know. Do I care, not
really. I try not to get myself involved in things that are not my business,
and I can’t say I have always been that way, but you get your hand caught in
someone else’s cookie jar and get it slapped and you learn to get your own
cookie jar.
I have too much trouble trying to undo my own human
shortcomings, so why would I want to stick my neck out into some else’s
business and get involved where it’s none of my business?
So we try to the best of our ability, to stay within
the limits of Genesis to Revelations, and by God’s grace if it goes outside
those limits you won’t hear it from this pulpit, at least not knowingly. We are
all human and as brother Branham said 700 instead of 7000 we are all capable of
making those kind of errors, but we can minimize our ability to err if we stay
with the Scriptures, and as ministers, knowing that some people may hang onto your
every word, we must be very careful not to get too much self into the pulpit.
So we need to stay prayed up, and even more so as we know the hour is coming to
a close. In fact in speaking of prayer, brother Branham said in…
Abraham
restored 61-0211 One
day while Abraham was setting there, along about eleven o'clock in the day, I
imagine. He looked, coming up through there, and here come three Men with dust
all over Their clothes, walking along. You
know there's something about it, you can pass right by God's blessing and not
know it if you're not prayed up. I think about that, prayed up. There was a
little Irish woman come over from Ireland not long ago, and they said she was on
a ship and was along about, oh, about
time they was getting in New York a great typhoon swept out across the ocean,
and the ship was just sending out SOS's, and it was just diving from place to
place. The bands had been playing; they'd been doing all the rock-and-roll that
they could and all like that. And the band started playing... The Captain said,
"Everybody pray; everybody pray, the way you do in your church." And
the bands begin to play "Nearer, My
God To Thee." And they all begin going on. 36
A little Irish woman begin walking up and down the floor. And the Captain said,
"If we can only hold this storm for thirty minutes, we'll come into the
harbor, drop anchor." Said, "But if we can't hold it for thirty
minutes," said, "we'll be at the bottom of the sea." That little
Irish woman said, "Glory to God. Hallelujah." So the Captain walked up,
said, "Lady, did you understand what I said?" She said, "I
understood you plainly, sir." He said, "I said in thirty minutes from
now we may be in the bottom of the sea, if we can't hold out thirty minutes in
this storm." Said, "I understood what you meant." Said,
"Hallelujah. Praise God." Said, "Why don't you pray?" She
said, "I'm prayed up. Don't have to do any more praying." Said,
"I was prayed up to begin with." Well, said, "Why could you say
hallelujah like that and knowing that you might be in the bottom of sea?" She
said, "Sir, I'm on my road from
Let us pray…